Show MILLET millee AND ITS CULTURE from one seasons sons bons experience I 1 think that millet is peculiarly pecullar ly adapted to light warm soils but will grow on almost an any soil which is not too wet that the soil should be ploughed sloughed plou glied hed deep an acdwell dWell pulverized zed sed that the time fline to sow the seed if intended for hay Is is any time during the month 0 of f june if intended to ripen the last i week in may that the quantity of seed if int intended ended for hay should vary from 16 to 20 quarts very rich soils requiring most seed to prevent the stalks orom from growing too rank but if intended to ripen 8 to 10 quarts per acre will be quite sufficient that the proper time to harvest if for hay is when the grain is just filled and the top of the head or spike is beginning to turn yellow but if intended for seed it should fully ripen that the best mode of harvesting is to cut with the cradle or reaper and bind into sheaves when sufficiently dry and that the yield per acre on in good soils A ell eil ll 11 cultivated will be from tareo to four tons of hav or 30 to 40 bushels of seed it leaves the soil in a loose friable slate consequently grass and clover seeds do well when sown with wilh it As to nutritious qualities it ia a regular panacea for the craving of all hungry stomach 49 whether of biped or quadruped horses will work hard and keep in fine condition by being fed on green filleti millet finely cut with a straw cut ter and mixed with four fou r quarts af ground millet seed per day to each horse feed in the same way to cows it will keep them fat and sleek and came an unusual flow of good rich milk colts calves and sheep fairly luxuriate in the green odder fodder the seed fed to it hehs e will make everlasting layers of them whether dor kings shanghais Shan ghais poland spanish or native other necessaries being provided canada farmer |