Maule's seed catalogue : 1896 . KAFFIR, CORN. Jacket, 10 ceatB. and surest grain crop for dry countries^ and seasons, even better than KaffirCorn. Dhoura and Milo Maize. It growsabout 3 feet high, makes one large headon main stalk, and several smallerheads on side-shoots; have seen as highas 8 heads on one stalk. The grains arepure white and nearly flat. Threepounds will plant an acre. The govern-ment farm at Garden Citymakes the following report: From Henry Clay Brooks, Superintendentof the United States Experimental Grass andForage Station, Garden City, Kas.: This is tocertify
Maule's seed catalogue : 1896 . KAFFIR, CORN. Jacket, 10 ceatB. and surest grain crop for dry countries^ and seasons, even better than KaffirCorn. Dhoura and Milo Maize. It growsabout 3 feet high, makes one large headon main stalk, and several smallerheads on side-shoots; have seen as highas 8 heads on one stalk. The grains arepure white and nearly flat. Threepounds will plant an acre. The govern-ment farm at Garden Citymakes the following report: From Henry Clay Brooks, Superintendentof the United States Experimental Grass andForage Station, Garden City, Kas.: This is tocertify that I raised a fair crop of JerusalemCorn on the unirrigated part of the UnitedStates Experimental farm the past season,which was the dryest season in the past 15 yearsat this point, the record showing 10 inches lessrain fall this year than the average of the past15 years. I had 90 acres in crop with forageplants, and the Jerusalem Corn was the onlykind that did any good. I consider it good forboth man and beast. I have experi
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