
ATLAS SORGO 
Here’s a tip to you. Two of the largest farms in this section 
tested silage qualities of Atlas Sorgo and are now growing it 
extensively because they believe it superior to corn both in yield 
and as a feed. Yields of 14 tons of silage to the acre have been 
reported. Leafy and sweet, it’s relished by live stock, fed either 
as fodder or silage. First tried in the corn belt, it is rapidly 
gaining ground as an outstanding type of sorghum for the 
eastern and northern parts of our country. 
Plants are about 14 inch thick and grow 7 to 10 feet high. 
Harvest when the seeds are in the hard-dough stage, using 
either a field ensilage cutter, or hauling into the silo after cut- 
ting with a corn-row binder. Unless dry, seed shallow. If 
around corn-planting time, use a corn planter with sorghum 
seed plates available from planter manufacturer. Then culti- 
vate same as corn. Plant about 15 pounds to the acre. 
ORANGE SORGHUM (CANE) 
Here is a crop perhaps new to you, but well worth a trial. It has 
proved a fine aid to milk production to many folks, as well as 
a valuable soiling crop. May be pastured or fed cut and dried. 
For all live stock. Growth is rapid, like corn. Does well in 
East or South. Feed gradually at first to prevent bloating. 
Don’t pasture after frost as poison develops. 
“KAFFIR CORN” 
Excellent forage, or chicken feed. For fodder 5 to 7 feet tall, 
juicy in stalk, plant one bushel per acre, broadcast or in drills. 
For heavy seed crop sow 7 pounds per acre in rows 3 feet apart. 
Plant late May to July. 
COW HORN TURNIP 
Improves soil and provides forage tops relished by sheep, hogs 
and poultry, when sown in cornfields. Turnips penetrate 
deeply, bring fertility to surface and add humus to soil. Sow 
2 to 4 pounds per acre. 
“QUICK PASTURE WITH RAPE” 
An inexpensive and prolific pasturage for sheep and hogs. 
Thrives on all soils with little preparation. Sow about 5 to 6 
pounds of seed per acre, through spring up to end of August. 
Alone, with other pasture seeds, or in cornfields. Makes second 
growth. Open to pasture when about 10 inches high. Stands 
hard usage. Easy to grow. 
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. 
CHECK ON ROOSTING 
HABITS 
When you make _ your 
nightly rounds of the lay- 
ing houses, inspect each 
pen to see if the birds are 
spread out evenly over all 
the roost. Crowding on the 
roosts may mean there are 
drafts or that some other 
housing condition is not as 
it should be. 
Note this fine crop of Winter 
Vetch... . Sown with Winter 
Rye. The two work fine to- 
gether. 

