INDIAN OR GRAND MILLET. 
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floor and immediately in front of the hearth, or 
under the stove. Put them in dry and keep them 
so; or they may be kept in boxes or barrels 
by keeping them moderately cool. Fill up 
with potatoes and then pour in dry sand from 
the road until it well fills in among the potatoes. 
John G. Chambers. 
Black-Swamp Farm, Kent Co., Del. Jan., 1850. 
MEDICINE FOR HORSES. 
As a general rule, any medicine, except an 
emetic, is good for a horse that is good for the 
same complaint in the human system. Multiply 
an ordinary dose for a man by nine, for a com¬ 
mon horse, or even by twelve for a very large 
horse. 
The above was obtained upon a late visit to 
Col. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, and few 
men in this country are more competent to give 
prescriptions of the kind than that gentleman. 
He has been long known as one of the best 
breeders of horses, in /the United States, as well 
as one of the first-rate cotton planters and stock 
breeders in the south. S. 
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT IN GROWING THE 
OSAGE ORANGE. 
In a late conversation with Mr. Francis Bulk- 
ley, of Columbia, S. C., he informed us that from 
twelve Osage oranges he got about 1,200 plants. 
His plan was as follows:—He took the fruit in 
February and cut around the centre so that he 
could pull it in halves, without cutting and des¬ 
troying any seed, which it would do to cut en¬ 
tirely through. He then commenced cutting 
small pieces from the edge and peeling up flakes 
to the centre, each piece of which contained two 
or three seeds imbeded in the pulp. These he 
immediately planted in moist, rich earth, in 
drills, and not over two inches deep. 
In April and May, all apparently came up 
and grew in the course of the summer, some as 
high as five to seven feet. In December, he care¬ 
fully took them up, cutting off the tap root and 
leaving it in the bed to grow, or planting it, and 
other root cuttings to make more trees. The 
tops he cut off within two inches of the 
ground, and then set out the stumps for a hedge 
in two rows, six inches apart, and two feet be¬ 
tween the plants, with one in each row, oppo¬ 
site the space in the other, thus Be¬ 
fore setting them in the hedge row, he dug a 
ditch two feet wide and two feet deep, and filled 
it with rich mold, taken from fence corners and 
other rich spots. 
After the seed is planted, and while the plants 
are small, and after the hedge is set until the 
plants get a start, in case of drouth, it would 
be advisable always to give artificial water¬ 
ings. 
Mr. Bulkley is satisfied that by pursuing this 
course, wherever the fruit can be obtained green, 
that an average of one hundred plants can be 
obtained from every orange. He estimates that 
there is fruit enough every year in Columbia, to 
make 200,000 trees. He never has succeeded in 
vegetating one seed in fifty after they became 
dry. He thinks that in his latitude a pretty 
that when well set, it will stop all animals, man 
good hedge can be grown in three years, and 
included, and will not require so much labor to 
keep in repair as rail fence; for that has to be 
renewed as often as once in eight years, in all 
the south. 
We would remark that it would not be difficult 
to procure Osage oranges from Louisiana, as 
they could be sent to New York as well as sweet 
oranges. 
To Correspondents. —Please to write short, 
practical articles upon something particular, 
instead of long essays upon agriculture in gen¬ 
eral. The former, are perused by our readers 
with avidity, while the latter are generally skip¬ 
ped, as dull and uninteresting. 
INDIAN OR GRAND MILLET. 
The grand or Indian 
millet, (Sorghum vul- 
gare ,) as its name im¬ 
plies, is a native of In¬ 
dia, where it is much 
used for feeding poul¬ 
try, and is frequently 
sent to Europe for the 
same purpose. It is 
much cultivated in Ara¬ 
bia and most parts of 
Asia Minor; and has 
been introduced into 
Italy, France, Spain, 
Switzerland, and some 
parts of Germany; also, 
into China, Cochin-Chi¬ 
na, and the West In¬ 
dies, where it common¬ 
ly grows five or six feet 
high, or more; and, 
being esteemed hearty 
food for laborers, it is 
called “Negro Guinea 
corn.” It has been 
raised on a limited 
scale at the south, and 
doubtless would suc¬ 
ceed in all the middle 
and western states, and 
perhaps still further Millet. Fig. 44 
north. 
The leaves of this plant are long and broad, 
having a deep furrow through the centre, where 
the midrib is depressed in the upper surface, 
and is very prominent beneath. The leaves are 
about two feet and a half long, and two inches 
broad in the middle,, including the stalks, with 
their bases. The flowers come out in large pani¬ 
cles at the top of the stalks, resembling, at their 
first appearance, the male spikes of Indian corn. 
They are succeeded by large roundish seeds, 
which are enveloped in chaff, and guarded from 
birds, by long bristles, or awns. There are two 
varieties, one distinguished by black, and the 
other by red-husked seeds. 
The flour of this grain is very white, and is 
said to make good bread or cakes. In Italy, it 
is chiefly used for feeding poultry and pigeons. 
