Show HOG MILLET mccook neb march 10 1898 in the spring of 1894 a farmer here sowed bowed a small patch of this allet and it yielded nearly a bushel of seed in 1895 he sowed bowed two acres with this seed and it threshed over ninety bushels in 1896 a good many farmers sowed bowed a few bushels to try it one bowed sowed nine bushels cut it in fifty six days and it threshed nine hundred and thirteen bushels another sowed bowed four bushels may cut it july and it threshed four hundred and forty bushels of seed it grows very fast I 1 sowed bowed this seed and seed of the common millet side by side on the same day and when this was ready to cubit was nearly a foot higher than the common millet last several hun dred acres were sown but it did not do so well as the year before there was too much rain for it it likes a dry climate the drier and hotter it is the faster it grows the stock and blade is like common millet but the head is more like cane the seed gets ripe when the blade and stalk is right greenard gre enand makes fine fane hay I 1 have bright prairie hay and hay of the common millet cut when blown very nice but my stock wont eat either of these it if they can get the hog millet hay I 1 have some of this hay that lay in the field until the last of november and got wet through several times it was badly bleached but my stock ate it in preference to bright hay of other kinds kinder when it is bright horses will leave their grain for it and they will keep fat on it without grain I 1 have farmed for fifty years and have fed ty ly all kinds of hay and this hog millet caps them all here it has yielded 2 to 2 tons per acre the seed fattens hogs the quickest of anything I 1 ever fed it should be ground and then dampened as fed they wont eat corn if they can get this seed poultry is very fond of attic ane seed chick ens will scratch a stack down in time for the seed aeed it should be cut when the heads begin to turn yellow cut and bind the same as wheat in shocking set the sheaves up two and two in a row and not in round shocks it can I 1 be mowed and when cured should be raked early in the morning as it shat i very easily WILLIAM COLEMAN personal to the editor thinking this would do well in your climate I 1 write the above and hope you may give it room in your paper I 1 have no seed to sell some of my neighbors have seed it if any of your readers want some to try it I 1 will get it and put it on cats cars here for them W C |