The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06

g. Ps1nt;zo Choose warm, mellow
soil, such IS you would confidently expect
to grow at least Fifty bushels of fndian Corn
to the acre. PIow early, piow deep and
thoroughly. Plant as early as you could
venture to plant corn. If you have 3 hot
bed. start q little seed IN one corner of It 1t
you plant considerably, put IN your seed at
different tifnes-say, IN this latitude, one
quarter each on the lst 10th and Goth of
Nav and 1st of June respectively. Plant
flor seed in hills, six seeds to the bill, and
at distances of four feet each way. Try
some FIVE feet apart east and west so as to
let in the sun between the rows J, and some
in drills-say four to FIVE feet apart east and
west with the seeds six inches apart IN the
drill and thin the plants 60 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 a distance, or it viii come
up too soon.
8. Iuage.-The Sorghum comes up look
ing very puny-much like broom-corn or
barn-grass If you set blockhead to weed
it, he win probably pull it up and report that
it never germinated. Cultivate like Indian
Corn-only faithfully. IF suckers start. a
majority say pinch them or pull them Off
that is, in growing for seed. This need not
be done in growing for sugar.
a. Harvesting 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-cor in 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 your
self that all manner of stock will eat them;
and put the rest of the stalks through any
kind of a crushing mill that may be handy
la cider-mill would be better than nothing
catch the juice and instantly warm itover
slow fire in large kettle, skimming of
the scum so long as any shall rise. Then
| boil the Juice about four-fifths away, as if
it were maple sap. Use a little lime or
lime water to neutralize the phosphoric acid,
which otherwise viii give aslightly acid but
not unpleasant taste to the syrup. Save
some syrup scithom thus neutralzing the
acid, as you may like it 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
to your cattle; and, having thus cleared the
ground, be ready to plant or sow extensively
next Spring.
| 5. Fodder.-We estimate that, whenever
seed shall be sufficiently abundant, any rich,
warm land viii produce third more fodder
per acre if 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 to prove that this plant is valua-
BILE both for Syrup and Fodder. Next year
viii be soon enough for most cultivators to
think of sowing for fodder or for grinding
for sugar.
One word of caution to experimenters:
Don't run the thing into the ground. The
Sorghum will prove valuable addition to
our crops, If we don't render it odious by
some Multicaulis foolery. But wheat, In
dian corn and clover are not going out OF
fashion for some years yet.