Show culture of sorghum it has we believe been satisfactorily proven that chinese sugar cane is a very profitable crop mere so than any other grown in the state when pure seed has bee been n planted at the right time and the crops ha have v e been properly cultivated the thom continual adulteration of the seed which has hab been going on from the time of the introduction of sorghum into these valleys to the present time by ml mixture sture of broom and other like kinds ut corn which has been planted everywhere ever where and in every place people have chosen not in the same field side by side bide with wish the cane has been so BO general and un universal versal that there is but very little litile it any pure seed to be found in the country some say there is none hov hox this may maybe be we know not but from the observance nonobservance non the world over in these latter days by a arl ari agri b ri culturists of that wholesome inhibiting provision in the statutes of moses enjoining the people not to sow their fields with divers kinds of seeds the presumption is that the amount of suo buo sugar augar 0 ar cane geed is quite limited under these circumstances and ana until a different order of thin things 9 can be brought about cultivators of sorghum will have to do the hest west they cablay beat baat seed beed there is and that which hadnot been adulterated to to so 1 great an extent as much of that grown in this ibis county was last season as to be wholly holly unfit for planting the hybridizing hybrid izing process has been going P on in other states than this since the introduction of the chinese sumar sugar sugar bugar 0 cane into north america and in the countries of europe where it has been apen cultivated there can be no pure seed obtained new importations from china are spoken of as the only means of obtaining unadulterated seed which those interested in the matter atter cc in the east cast intend doltie doh the present season the t me for p panting in this and adjoining valleys has now arrived and the sooner the beed seed ed i is s put into the ground the more certainty there will be ot of its coming to maturity before the frosts of autumn shall come A very sure sura way to insure germination when the ground is dry as much of that suitable for the growing a of cane now is notwithstanding the great amount ct cf water that fell during the month of march and the fore part of april inasmuch as sorghum seed does not grow or spring sprin up very readily is to soak the seed until it sprouts before planting not in hot water but by keeping it molit moist and spread out somewhat thinly to keep jeep it from heating the sprouting sp should only be carried on to the swelling of 0 the seed sum sur sufficiently to brek break the ibe further than that would be anju lous loua as the germs would be liable to be broken offin effin pl inting |