Show REAL RURAL READING WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DE PARTI pearl millet one of the most luxury out aut grasse Gr aRCi 4 known simple contrivance for protecting mounir plants Plan tsA A secure gote gate lutali pearl millet let in the search for or drought resisting forage plants american agriculturist says nays or horse millet should not bo be overlooked overlook ed especially 1 pec ally lally in t the b 0 wormer wanner sections of 11 1 lk our country under I 1 4 I 1 1 favorable c co 0 n d i A V liens it Is one of 0 the most luxuriant I 1 AI N V M 11 growing grasses U L known I 1 it t Is not W I 1 11 3 1 bo however wever as its i 5 f 1 oi 0 p u I 1 a r name N I 1 would lead one to 1 V I 1 I 1 1 suppo t appose e a s species ot of InI millet lILt but resembles ib 1 in appear fi anco and character k V the sorghum sorghums sorg hums more I 1 i 1 as I 1 11 than the millets inflicts botanical name eikill rl PI Ull kIll MILLET LE T its Is A most remarkable mir kable record of the luxuriant growth of this plant lias has boon been oven given by thu the late lalo peter henderson as follows determined to give pearl millet a thorough trial I 1 prepared a piece ot of rood good ground as it if tor for a root crop by at the rate of 12 32 or 13 15 tons to the acre plowing deeply and li harrowing the seed mod was sov sown n in drills 20 inches apart at the rate of four or live five pounds pound to the acre the seed was sown about the middle of slay may when the plants wore were up a cultivator was mas run through the rows and the growth became so rapid that no further culture was necessary the first cutting was made lorty forty five lays days after SOINI botting sot ting Dg it was seven even feet high and covered the w hole ground the crop cut three inches above the ground weighed as cut at the rate of 30 tons per acre dried tons per acre tile the 6 second e coll d growth cut forty five days from tile time of ill the first cutting was nine feet high arid and weighed at the rate of 55 tons to the acre fresh equal to eight tons dried the last growth started rapidly but the cool weather retarded it so that the last cutting only weighed 10 tons and 11 tons dried the total yield was 97 9 i tons green fodder in ili days equal to 10 tons of hay the accompanying compa nying illustration was engraved from a photograph of it a plant which stood 13 feet high |