Farm crops, their cultivation and management, a non-technical manual for the cultivation, management and improvement of farm crops . et as regards time of maturity, drought resistance and yield. Its tend-ency to produce a volunteer growth has brought it somewhat into disfavor. The millets may be seeded any time after the soil is thoroughly latitude 40 degrees north, German millet should be seeded the last week 19 152 SUCCESSFUL FARMING in May or the first week in June. Hungarian millet may be seeded twoor three weeks later, while common millet will frequently produce a cropwhen seeded
Farm crops, their cultivation and management, a non-technical manual for the cultivation, management and improvement of farm crops . et as regards time of maturity, drought resistance and yield. Its tend-ency to produce a volunteer growth has brought it somewhat into disfavor. The millets may be seeded any time after the soil is thoroughly latitude 40 degrees north, German millet should be seeded the last week 19 152 SUCCESSFUL FARMING in May or the first week in June. Hungarian millet may be seeded twoor three weeks later, while common millet will frequently produce a cropwhen seeded as late as the middle of July. Millet is used chiefly as a catch crop for hay. It is well adapted forthis purpose and may be substituted where a catch of clover or timothyfails. It is also excellent to fill in where areas of corn have failed. The preparation of the seed-bed should begin as early in the spring asconditions will permit. This gives an opportunity to rid the soil of weedsby occasional harrowing prior to seeding. Millet is seeded broadcast atthe rate of one peck per acre when grown for seed, and one-half bushel per. Millet Makes an Excellent Catch Crop and is Profitable Either for HayPurposes or for Seed Production. acre when grown for hay. Three pecks of seed is advised by some for results in smaller plants with a finer quality of hay. Where extensively grown for seed, millet should be harvested with theself-binder when the seed is in the stiff dough stage. The after-treatment issimilar to that for wheat and oats. The best quality of hay is secured bycutting before the seeds begin to ripen. The seeds act as a diuretic to ani-mals and it is not safe to feed too much of it to horses. Hay that is to beused for horses should be harvested before seeds form. Rape.—Rape belongs to the same family of plants as cabbage andturnips. There are two varieties, annual and biennial. The latter bearsseed in the second year. The best known variety of biennial is the Dwarf
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