Show cultivation of millet I 1 jn ju answer to several inquiries about millet and its cultivation it will be in in order to say thal that this grain is is cultivated for several reveral purposes and has obtained many very flattering commendations grom from persons aho vho naho have grown it extensively in italy it liv and some of the lite german states itis used to mike bread furnishing a very nutritious brown loat loaf formerly much vs used ed by the laborers generally the seed is grosnas grow nas food for animals and nl particularly y for poultry and is estimated by garmers farmers r r e to possess about the same saine value as corn it is also aiso grown for soiling tr purposes while green and andlor lor for curing ana afia ahia asih for hay bay for which it is held in high estimation esti estl maticiA I 1 millet inai may j po grown gron with nith success success upon ground that would wal u ld yield yelda a good f r 1 rop r D of oats but best beat upon light landin good cond on in com corn nion alt with avith most crops it richly rewards deep ac so curate tillage and an d plentiful penti ful rul supplies of manure oe one ol 01 the favori favorite te methods of growing tha crop is upon I 1 creel bward sward deeply fall plou glied and ind harrowed or worked witha wheat cultivator or gang plough in the faring and the more morg care that thal is is taken in in havi bavi leaving ng the gia field clean and finely pulverized the larger larmer the promise of a good crop and if a coams of fine anure manure r could be applied 4 or coarser manure ploughed sloughed hed unde in the spring P it would add to the success of the experiment A pennsylvania farmer whose experience we find recorded dij in the nien memoirs of the board of agriculture of the st stile ite says saya he has noih it filom chist of may alay to the of june and invariably more wore fodder than could have ben xen obtained from any griss grass under similar cir pura puma lances stances when sown early in may ait i is harvested early in july and yields sields front frony three 0 o four foun four foun long loni of good hay and an d lie states the produce ll 11 ce i of sixteen sixteen acres aar only four foun of which had I 1 been heen e e n and from the remaining remal nim twelve melve a good go ad crop af pf f wheat could rint hive been obtained lave mave to have bare been forty tons ions of its value for feed he ays bays whilst my oxen consumed 1 millet in its green state they performed their work with morti more spirit tind vigor than they had don done before or have shown since axce except pt when with grain wy bly cattle of all ages prefer preter it to both red and ald best white clover meadow or timothy hay many nany farmers in different dif dlf derent portions ozithe state with veith whom we have hoid hold it in the same bame high estimation and many grow it as a regular green feed for dairy cows and working working teams during the drought of summer il there is some difficulty attending its growth for seed as the birds and fowls are very fondon fond of it often gathering in large flocks to prey prey upon the coveted seed another difficulty is iti ith ripening une unevenly verily as the seeds upon the tha tir iii a upper part of the stalks generally ripen and n ot fall fill before the lo lowe rones s hh have filled fillia ly to obviate this difficulty it is generalli cat when the upper part of most if lif the can tain lain seeds that are liard hard and anait it is at this pe period rigid that it affords the most nutritious ous fodder and andla andia is the racist easily made into hay ha V millet Ts ti recommended not merely merely as valuable bl e for food nood tilt but as s an effectual method of making clean lands without summer fallow or the t more e expensive prock ss of a hoed crop elough i the land late in autumn and again in may alay ithe he latter ploughing sloughing hing not rot very deep after which harrow it down leaving it until the small weeda weed begin to appear har bar harrow row again and sow tile the millet early in june the crop will come off in A august u after the labors of a general harvest when he land may be well plowed and sown to wheat for a crop of corinthe corn the succeeding spring from the imperfect manne mannelin man nerin rhy which it riper sk the seed will not all grow and the amount of seed to an acre varies with di Terent different farmer sli sir froth frona twenty quarts to one bushel ozithe pro tp up briety and profits of its cultivation every tiller tillei of the soil will be disown his own judge we are fuyi ly I 1 persuaded much forage can ba W raised for cat tle tie tf e by b y the use of millet and also of corn sown broadcast and in drills and have not a doubt that farmers formers can procure the no necessary C essary amount of fodder for foy winter ue u 4 from less land and at ata a i less expensive rate yate the bulk of meadow land in in new york yorke does not yield to exceed une one aad ad a half tons of good hay per acre for aset aser tes fes af V years brid and the garmers farmers and dairymen n will alil 1 l fond find ind this too expensive for profitable farming or da tlajy if V crying at th the present price of land food far for cattle in summer and winter must be oafa obtained at a cheaper rate rate and from less land and 16 we think ond p source will be the rubis e va a tion of millet in illet lilet moor s rural new no april A 41 p ril rii W f t |