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Show FODDER CROP FOR DRY FARM Mho It Surest Yielding Grain Crown In Arid Sections Advice on How to Feed to 8tock. (JTy ritoK. If. M. COTTRBI.L.) Mllo Is the surest yielding grain crop that Ih grown In tho dry land section sec-tion of eastern Colorado, nestern Kansas and Oklahoma, the l'an Handle Han-dle of Texas and custern New Mexico. Mex-ico. The United Slates department of agriculture ag-riculture reports the average yield for five years at Amarlllo, Tex, and other dry land experiment stations at iO bushels of grain per acre a year. Farmers In the snnio section report yields of thirty to fifty flvo bushels an acre. A bushel of mllo will produce from ten to eleven pounds of pork. This makes the average annual pork production pro-duction from the dry lands of the southwest equal to 400 and upwards pounds per acre where mllo la grown and fed. Ten pounds of mllo have the same feeding value for horses, beef and dairy cattle, bogs and sheep as cine pounds of corn. Mllo Is the corn for the plains of the southwest and should be grown Instead of corn wbever the annual rainfall drops below 25 inches. Farmers Farm-ers In the l'an Handle or Texas say that it never rails to yield a crop of grain, and that It will yield 20 bushels an acre In years so dry that wheat is an absolute rallure, Mllo should have the same place in dry land farming that corn has In Iowa and Illinois. It has nearly the composition com-position of corn, like feeding qualities, and can be used with profit for the reeding or every class or rami animals to which corn is red. Horses doing heavy rami work should be given three reeds or Mllo grain a day. It Is usually red In the head, one hair more heads being given than would be given ears of corn. Most teamsters prefer to reed mllo In the head, cutting the main stem off close to the head. The main stem of the head and the many little stems to which the seeds are attached force the horses to do a large amount of chewing before the grain can be swallowed, and this mastication grinds the grain and mixes It with the saliva, Increasing Increas-ing the proportion digested. The seeds or mllo are small, and when the threshed grain is ted to the horses, it Is chewed very little and much or the seed passes through undigested. un-digested. Ground mllo makes a good horse reed. Horses and mules hare stood well, with hard work all summer, such as breaking prairie, with no grain but mllo. Colts and horses not working may be red mllo rodder Just as it is cured stalks and heads. Kafir corn or early amber sorghum, planted In rows rather thickly and cut, when in bloom, with a binder, makes a good bay tor horses whose grain reed Is mllo. When rattening cattle are first put on reed, they may bo given mllo rodder, rod-der, heads and stalks together, the rrop rut with a binder and kept In he shock until cured. After thirty days of such feeding, ihe waete becomes too great, nnd it sill pay to snap the heads from the (talks and feed them In grain boxes, , ihe same as ear corn. ' For the final feeding, after the iteers have become fairly fat, It will i ;y to grind the mllo. i The heads may be ground without ( hreshlng, the small stems to which he seeds are fastened forming a i (round roughage, or the heads may 3e threshed and the clear grain , ;routid. The best laxative reed to give cattle ( ielng rattened on mllo Is green cured ilfalfa hay cut to retain most of the eaves. |