. Catalogue of the Cox Seed & Plant Co. Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Catalogs. Jerusalem Corn. This corn belongs to the non- ssacharine sorghums, and was brought here from the arid plains of Palestine by a missionary, who gave two grains of it to a farmer in Finney County, Kansas. These two grains made five heads the first year, next season he got five bushels, and next season he planted eight acres and gathered 21)0 bushels. It is pronounced the best and surest grain crop for dry countrie
. Catalogue of the Cox Seed & Plant Co. Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Catalogs. Jerusalem Corn. This corn belongs to the non- ssacharine sorghums, and was brought here from the arid plains of Palestine by a missionary, who gave two grains of it to a farmer in Finney County, Kansas. These two grains made five heads the first year, next season he got five bushels, and next season he planted eight acres and gathered 21)0 bushels. It is pronounced the best and surest grain crop for dry countries and seasons, even better than Kaffir Corn, Dhoura and Milo Maize. It grows about three feet high, makes one large head on main stalk, and several smaller heads on side shoots, have seen as high as eight heads on one stalk. The grains are pure white and nearly flat. Three pounds will plant an acre. Per lb., 15c; 100 lbs., $ The experimental farm at Garden City, raised a crop of it this season, and makes the following report: From HENRY CLAY BROOKS, Superintendent of the) United States Experimental Grass and Forage Station. \ Garden Citv, Kansas, October 27th,"1890. This to certify, that, I raised a fair crop of "Jerusalem Corn" on the unirrigator! part of the United States Experimental Farm the , which was the dryest season in the past fifteen years at this point. The record showing ten inches less rainfall this year than the average of the past fifteen years. I had ninety acres in crop with the different varieties of forage plants, and the Jerusalem Corn was the only kind that did any good. I consider it good for both man and beast. I have ex- perimented with it in fattening a hog, and the hog is iu as finea condition as I ever saw one. I have also used it in my family in the form of hominy, and it certainly makes the best hominy that I ever ate. H. C. BROOKS, in charge. _ Spring Vetches, or Tares ( Vvsa saliva}. A spe- cies of the pea. grown e
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