Sure-Catch f Fast-Growing Summer Crop 
Jloffman's 
ATLAS SORGO 
Harry Funston, of Indiana, 
found that 3 acres of Atlas 
Sorgo filled his silo. It had 
always taken 10 acres of corn 
to fill it before. It grew 8 
feet tall, and made about 20 
tons of silage per acre. Stood 
straight, and was easy to feed 
through the cutter. 
Cutting first-year alfalfa. Many 
young stands have been either 
decreased or totally ruined by 
cutting too early. Young 
alfalfa should be cut for the 
first time, when all or nearly 
all of the blooms are out. 
Different with older estab¬ 
lished stands. The better hay 
for dairy cows comes by cut¬ 
ting the first crop when 
slightly over half the blooms 
are out. Earlier cutting of 
such older stands makes a 
softer, more palatable feed, 
running higher in protein. 
“I was well pleased with the 
Hybrid corn. This is the third 
year I have used Hybrid corn 
and expect to use nothing ex¬ 
cept all Hybrid next year. I 
wish to place an order for 4 
bushels of Funk Hybrid Seed 
Corn 218 .”—Roy S. Baker, 
Biglerville, Pa. 
INGS BEST 
winds of 
seedings 
roots to 
ATLAS SORGO 
Fourteen tons of silage per acre. That’s the yield an Illinois 
grower reported. Note picture—it shows a 1939 stand of 
Atlas Sorgo in Chester County, Penna. 
No wonder some users of "Atlas Sorgo’’ consider it superior 
to corn both in yield and as a feed! Leafy, sweet, relished 
by live stock when fed as fodder or silage, it is rapidly com¬ 
ing to front rank among the sorghums of our country. First 
tried in the corn belt, its use has spread through the Central 
States and into the East. 
Plants grow 7 to 10 feet high, are about ]/ 2 inch thick. 
When seeds are in hard-dough stage, should be harvested 
with field ensilage cutter or hauled to silo after cutting with 
corn-row binder. Seed shallow (unless dry), about 15 pounds 
per acre. Around corn-planting time, using a corn-planter with 
sorghum-seed plates. (Obtainable from planter manufac¬ 
turer.) Then cultivate as with corn. 
ORANGE SORGHUM (CANE) 
A crop which has proved so fine a helper to milk production 
that you should at least try it. May be pastured, or fed cut 
and dried, to all farm live stock. Also valuable soiling crop. 
Growth is rapid, similar to corn. Does well over the East 
and South. Feed gradually at first to prevent bloating. Never 
pasture after plants are frosted, as poison develops. 
KAFFIR CORN 
Valuable for forage. Also used often to make chicken feed. 
Chickens scratch eagerly after it. Stalk is juicy, brittle. 
For fodder 5 to 7 feet tall, plant one bushel per acre, 
broadcast or in drills. For heavy crops of seed, sow in rows 
3 feet apart, 4 to 7 pounds per acre. Plant late May to July. 
COW HORN TURNIP 
Sown in corn fields, 2 to 4 pounds per acre, improves soil 
conditions and at the same time provides forage tops which 
sheep, hogs, and poultry eat greedily. Turnips grow long, 
penetrate deeply, bring fertility to surface, add humus to soil. 
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