Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-17
lliIIet,

After alludng TO the great amount of "wiuter-
| killed. grass in New England, which he saws ex-
ceeds anything he ever saw before, aud after adj.
ylsing farmers to sow corn and oats for fodder,
Mr. Joseph +. Lawrence, member of the New
| Hampshire board of agriculture, thus speaks of
millet, in communication to the Mirror aud
| Farmer
q have had better success with millet than
either oats or corn fodder, and urge its cultiva.
ton upon my brother farmers of the state do
not thlnk 1t exhausts the land like oats, and it
does not require so rich land, or land SO richly
fortified as fodder corn, or require so much ex,
pendlture for seed as corn does, for half bushel
OF mlllet seed, costing one dollar, is sufficient
seed for an acre. IL can be sown
successfully as late as the first Of July,
for last year raised several tons on land where
had moved of crop Of hay. But / think.
ordinarily, II will succeed better if sown from
the first OF June to the twentieth. 1t should be
cut when 10 the milk, aud If properly cured is
equal to any English hay. II requires consd-
cradle making as we term it, two good days
| being hardly enough, SO late in the season. [
| have meyer succeeded in getting much of a
''patch" Of grass seed with millet, siinpy be-
cause it grows so thick and heavy there is no
| room for 1t; but my practice has been to imme-
diately plough in the millet stubble, and seed
70 grass the stnbble itself making quite ma
| nuring,
But am met by the objection that we have
| no manure, and that 1t is useless to ext ect much
| OF crop without it. | know too much of
| farming to recommend raising crops upon New
England soil without iertilizng it, still, plow-
| Ing up this sward land when the stuhble is so
| green, and the weather is warm enough to
cause 1t to decompose rapidly, il will produce a
| heavy crop without heavy manurng, hut.
after the farmer has finished his usual planting
he has little leisure season, and let him select
| some portions of his fields likely to bear the
least grass, aud pillow II up and seed to millet.
| Though he may have apparently used all his ma
| nure, still, in his backyards beneath his sink
sp0uts, and from other different sources, he will
quite often find enough to fertlize an acre, and
raise two good loads of mllet. After exhaust.
| ing all these sources Tor manure upon my farm,
| | have used guano and phosphate at the rate OF
500 pounds per acre, and have raised all | could
make upon the ground"
A correspondent Of the Massachusetts, Plough.
man says OF Hungarian grass, ia variety of
millet;
"ln the last issue Of the ploughman noticed
| an article In relation to Hungarian grass.
| have had little experience in raising IT, and
| am decidedly Of the opinion that il is best not
to SOW earlier than the 10th OF June, ana unless
| the ground il warm aud quite dry, any time
until the goth Of June will he sufficiently early,
and IL is truly astonishing to sec its rapid
| growth Where at first Ii would
seem to be but occasionally a spear, it
| will IN few days entirely cover the
ground, aud IL allowed to grow will lodge
aud llaltened down 50 that two tons may be con-
sdered not a heavy crop. | feed il to horses,
| aud il Is equally rs good US herdsgrass TO feed
| part Of the time. 1t must be cut before fully
headed out while In the milk, and when cured Is
wilted instead OF dried. Seven pounds of seed
TO the acre Is a sufficient amount to SOW; more
than mat Is an injury rather than blessing,