Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay and pasture . Fig. 14. Seeds or grains of Broom-corn millet. sorghum and teosinte. The yield was sixteenand two-tliirds tons of green forage per acre,which contained 7,637 pounds of dry matter, orpractically twice as much dry matter as was con-tained in the yield of either red or white kafircorn. Its composition was such as to furnishnearly 700 pounds of protein per acre, or morethan any other of the plants generally grown, andagain more than twice as much as the kafir corn. From the standpoint of yield of dry matter andof total nutrients, the Broom-corn m
Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay and pasture . Fig. 14. Seeds or grains of Broom-corn millet. sorghum and teosinte. The yield was sixteenand two-tliirds tons of green forage per acre,which contained 7,637 pounds of dry matter, orpractically twice as much dry matter as was con-tained in the yield of either red or white kafircorn. Its composition was such as to furnishnearly 700 pounds of protein per acre, or morethan any other of the plants generally grown, andagain more than twice as much as the kafir corn. From the standpoint of yield of dry matter andof total nutrients, the Broom-corn millet comparedvery favorably with the varieties of maize usuallygrown for forage, yet because of lack of palata-bility it could not be used for the purpose. Itpossesses promising characteristics, in particularits power of gathering plant-food; and furtherexperiments may show it to be a valuable plantfor silage in regions where corn does not 9-1: FORAGE CROPS TEOSINTE (Fig. 15) This plant is similar in general habit to millet,bat differs in its tendency to stool. It belongs to awholly different species {EttcJilcena, or Beana, luxu-rlans) from the other crops discussed in this chap-ter, but it is so much like millet in its culturalrequirements and in its uses that it may be dis-cussed with them. By some it is suggested as theoriginal of Indian corn. A single plant of teosintewill branch and make a very large number of dif-ferent plants. So far as plant-food is concerned,teosinte makes the same requirements as the othervery rapid-growing summer plants. Teosinteshould be planted in rows about three feet apart,and tilled. Three pounds of seed per acre is suffi-cient. It is adapted only to the far South. Yields as high as twenty-four tons per acre havebeen secured, although, because of the low contentof dry matter, the yield of actual nutriment is verymuch less than from ten tons of corn. One ton containsPer cent Lljs. Water 9
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