Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-02-09
Chineso Snrnr Cnno.

! The N. Y. Tribune gives the following prac
tica directions for the cultivation of this plant.
! l. Seed.--If there be seed-store within
your reach, your easiest way is to send and
buy what seed yon want. In planting to raise
seed Uhe first years object,) pound will snf-
fee for an acre; and this ought not to cost
more than g dollar. But beware of impostors
and swindlers, for bushels of broom corn and
kindred seeds will be palmed off as that of the
Sorghum. Where you cannot readily obtain
seed in this way, write to your Member of Con
gress asking him to send you paper, and he
will generally be able to do so. If not the Sec
rotary of your State Agricultural Society may
be able to supply you.
2 Planting. Choose a warm, mellow soil,
such as you would confidently expect to grow
at least fifty bushels of Indian Corn TO the
acre. Plow early, plow deep and thoroughly.
If you have hot-bed, start a little seed in one
corner of it. If you plant considerably, put
in your seed at different times-say, in this lat
itude one-quarter each on the 1T, 10th and
Goth of May and lst of June respectively.
1 Plant (for seed) in hills, six seeds To the hill,
and at distances of four feet each way. Try
some five feet apart east and west $50 as to let
in the sun between the rows,) and some in
driils-say four TO five feet apart east and west,
with the seeds six inches apart in the drill,
and thin the plants to one foot apart. If you
have seed in abundance, SOW little in drills
two feet apart, the seeds in the drill but two
or three inches apart. Cover lightly, as the
seed rots if covered deeply. Keep the hens at
| distance, or it will come up too soon.
3. TilLage.-The Sorghum CONES up looking
very puny-mucb like broom-coln or barn
grass. II yoa set b0ckhesd to weed it, he
e a flat a.
err germiLated. Cultivate like Indian Corn
only faithfully. Ii suckers start, majority say
pinch them or pull them off-that il, in grow
ing for seed. This need not be done in grow
ing for sugar.
4. Harresting.-Wh Whenever the seed shall be
hard and black, cut Off the upper part of the
stalks, say three feet long, and hang them up
like broom corn, ia dry chamber, suspended
from the ceiling, so as to be out of the way OF
rats, &c. Now cut up your stalks, pull off the
leaves, and satisfy yourself that all manner of
stock will eat them; cut up a few of the stalks
as you would cOrn~stalks, and try like exper.
iinent with them; and put the rest Of the stalks
through any kind Of crushing mill that may
be handy-a cider mill would be better than
nothing-catch the juice and instantly warm
it overa slow fire in large kettle, skimmng
off the scam SO long as any shall rise. hen
boil the juice about three-fifths away, as if it
were maple sap. Use little lime or lime. wa.
ter TO neutralize the phosphoric acid, which
otherwise viii give slightly acid but not un-
pleasant taste 10 the syrup. Save some syrup
isithout thus neutralzng the acid, as you may
like il better that way. Don't waste the scum,
but throw it TO the pigs, where it will make
at least excellent manure. Feed the pumice or
crushed stalks 20 your cattle: and, having thus
cleared the ground DO ready to plant or SOW
extensively next Spring
8. Fodder.-We estimate that, whenever
seed shall be sufficiently abundant, any rich,
warm land will produce third more fodder
per acre ii sown with Sorghum than if sown
with Indian Corn, and that the Sorghum is at
least twenty five per cent. more nutritious than
the corn. But all that can be effected this year
is 20 grow good supply OF seed, and prove
that this plant is valuable both for Syrup aud
Fodder. Next year will be soon enough for
most cultivators TO think Of sowing Tor fodder
or grinding for sugar.
--Ore word OF caution 10 experimenters :
D0n't rnn the thing into the groand. The Sor
ghum viii prove valuable addition TO our
crops, II we don't render IL odious by some
Mulucaulis foolery. But wheat, Indian cora
aud clover are not gcing ont of fashion for
some years YET
r. The Ciafksville y 6'rseIsieN Of the 18th says
''ihe annual electi0a OF the officers 81 the BAGS
OF Tennessee, Al GAINESVILLE, took piece yesterday.
The iollesiog i The list Of tirtcsok and ofieers
elected: Joshua Elder, Jno. i. Coats o, ~
Blackman, Wm. Parry, Wm N. ShelsSn, j. T.
johnson, 7. J. Npuford, r. +, Fursusoa, R0bi,
arNsily, Of Dickson Co. } NJ Searborough Of
Slouart Co, r B. Corn, OF tinmghreys r W
HumnhrrVe. pYrsfaeaf. A Il Madam (ashier
IL The Franklin Typographical Society Of Bcs-
ton, has been noihed that should aay unioriunsgc
printer require rolled al the tassaohussgls General