. Nebraska Seed Co.'s annual catalogue : reliable garden and farm seeds. Nursery stock Nebraska Omaha Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. KAFFIR CORN—A variety of Sorghum, cultivated for both for- age and grain, growing from four and a half to 6ix feet high, is stalky, erect, and has wide foliage. Kaffir Corn has the quality common to all Sorghums of resisting drought. Sow in rows three feet apart, five to six pounds to the acre. .. WHITE MILLE MAIZE OR BRANCHING DHOURA—Of South American origin, already well advertised and distributed. Valuable as a forage plant and fo
. Nebraska Seed Co.'s annual catalogue : reliable garden and farm seeds. Nursery stock Nebraska Omaha Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. KAFFIR CORN—A variety of Sorghum, cultivated for both for- age and grain, growing from four and a half to 6ix feet high, is stalky, erect, and has wide foliage. Kaffir Corn has the quality common to all Sorghums of resisting drought. Sow in rows three feet apart, five to six pounds to the acre. .. WHITE MILLE MAIZE OR BRANCHING DHOURA—Of South American origin, already well advertised and distributed. Valuable as a forage plant and for its grain, having great capaoity to stand drought. It can be cut and fed at any stage, or cured, when heading out, for fodder. Four or five pounds to the acre. DHOURA OR EGYPTIAN RICE CORN-A wonderful fodder plant. If sown in spring while the ground is moist it will mature without a drop of rain. It is much sweeter than corn stalks, and cattle, horses and hogs eat it ravenously, It stands firm^galnst the highest wind, roots deep, and will endure without injury, a drought that sometimes ruins corn. Four or five pounds to the acre. CANE OR SORGHUM. Well known everywhere. Plant in warm, corn soil, rather poor than rich, or at least manure with mineral fertilizers, as ashes, bone meal, potassic manure, etc., in drills ZlA feet apart to let the sunlight reach the stalks and lower leaves to perfect the development of sugar. Sow about five pounds of seed per acre for syrup and thirty pounds for fodder. EARLY AMBER CANE—This popular and well-known variety is the earliest and makes the finest quality of amber syrup and good sugar. Succeeds well from Texas to Minnesota. EARLY ORANGE CANE—A well-known variety, well adapted for the south; it is from eight to ten days later than the Early Amber; produces a syrup of excellent quality. SUGAR-CANE FOR FODDER—We have seed of both of above named varieties which has not been selected with such care, but whicn, will grow and prove sati
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