. Descriptive catalogue of farm seeds : wheat, speltz, oats, potatoes, corn, barley and millet. Nursery stock South Dakota Aberdeen Catalogs; Cereal grasses Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. JAPANESE ; Last year we first sent this out to our customers gratis with every order, as a new forage plant from Japan and it is astonishing what a record this new millet has already got. F. R. Woodward, of Hill, N. H., says that his cows left sweet fodder, corn, pearl millet and common grass and took Japan Millet in preference. He supposed it was because the stalks are so much sweeter; they
. Descriptive catalogue of farm seeds : wheat, speltz, oats, potatoes, corn, barley and millet. Nursery stock South Dakota Aberdeen Catalogs; Cereal grasses Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. JAPANESE ; Last year we first sent this out to our customers gratis with every order, as a new forage plant from Japan and it is astonishing what a record this new millet has already got. F. R. Woodward, of Hill, N. H., says that his cows left sweet fodder, corn, pearl millet and common grass and took Japan Millet in preference. He supposed it was because the stalks are so much sweeter; they increased their milk when fed upon it. From our own experience I can truly say that this is one of the most wonderful forage plants I have ever seen; it is such a quick and rank grower and will make more fodder than anything I ever saw. It is surely a boon to the stockman and dairyman even in our dry climate this millet will produce from 5 to 8 tons of the best of hay per acre. This. millet must not be compared with any other kind of millet as the stalks are so sweet and tender that stock eats every particle of it and they thrive and fatten on it. I notice one seed firm calls it the Billion Dollar Grass. Be sure and buy home grown acclimated seed. Culture.—Plow ground to good depth and harrow down well; sow at the rate of 12 to iS pounds per acre, into a moist seed bed. For hay, we prefer to cut when seed begins to form, with a self binder, and shock same as wheat, till it is well cured, then stack it in good shape, and you will have the best kind of feed for any kind of stock, that you ever saw in your life; you can also cut and treat as any other kind of hay. The Japanese Millet, if sown on suitable soil, out-yields any other variety. The best soil is one which is in a fair condition of fertility and moderately retentive, inclined to be moist rather than drv, but not wet: On good corn land, fertilized as we commonly fertilize for corn, this millet has^given vields at the r
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