The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-11-01

worth More ca the West than naif
Doxeu of Her Richest Wines.

rCorrespeudence of the Denser Tribunei, =
As mege important than aaY ssher
facts learned ian this my sexenth tpi9 to
the Rocky mountsins, / present to- the
readers of the Tribune an sccount of a
new grain, which, If it fills the psemlse
of my inforraant- Deacon Hollisser, OF
Chicago, is veuth move to Colorado
than half doaa of her richest mines.
OF course it is equally valuable to Wes-
tern Kansas, New Mexico, Nevada and
Montana. Mr.. Hollister calls it
RICE, OR EGYPTIAN cesS.
As tbs facts in relation to. this new
cereal are new, and so curieus and in
teresting, they are here given in detail.
Mr.. HOLSTER bought, a couple OF years
ago, ranch of some l,SOO acres, three
or four miles south of Kinsley, on the
Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
Kinsley is situated in the valley of Sis
Arkansas, in, shat 10 often called che
"dry bel4. three hundred and sixteen
miles west of Kansas City, anos abous
the same distance east of PuebIs. Mr.
HOLSTERS son and son-in-laa occupy
the place. Last year neighbor OF the
HoIlister ranch raised some Of the rice.
corn. and bis success indssed Deacan.
HOLSTER 70 recommend its,iatroduGJlOn
to his ranch. He had forty acres of sod
turned over last spring, and having
procured. several quarts of the seed,
with an srdinary seed planter be depos-
tied two. or three grains foot or two
apart i'm the sod. There had not been
drop Of rain for tie previous eight
! months, and it did not rain TOR five
weeks after the planting, yet tia sesd
terminated. The corn,
CAME UP AND GREW FINELY
After it got fairly started, the.hot
1blasts came up from the Plano Es5aca-
10 (Staked Plains burning up the grass
and every green thing in the gardens,
seorching lasa blasts from furnace, and
vet it did nos affect the newcomer
from Egypt a particle. ltgrew right
along in spite of tha heat. Then the
rain eane-on, and he.sturdy grain was
equally Indifferent 70 that. 1t grew
right on, and ripensd about the Isl of
September, yielding, Deacon HOLSTER
thought, sOme 90 bushels to,the acre,
weighing 90 pounds to the bushel. The
stalk. for some three feet from the
ground is about as large 40 mans
coat sleeve, and is perfect wood. This
in alf the treeless region east of the
mountains is
A MOST IMPORTANT FACT,
AS aD acre CIV two will furnish fuel for
asfalnily for an entire year. From the
top of the woody substance issues
stalk, Oh the top of which a, taft some
thingbke that OF sorghum.issues; this
soon, drops oven and the whole bunch
is one mass OF. grain. The kernel is
about the size OF a~grain of. wheat, pers
haps little smaller andsmore nearly
round. Each. one is enclosed in
shuaA, or independent. capsule. The
grain can ba ground4into an excellsnt.
-four, from which bread and other food
can be made; it can be boiled and
eaten as rice and cracked wheat, and in.
fact can be used for any purpose for
which. our ordinary cereals are en-
ployed. A neighbor of Deacon Hollis,
ter, who raised a small crop last year,
assured him that it fattened his pigs
faster than he had ever known com,
mon corn omany other feed.to do it.
ALMOST roo, GOOD TO BE TRUE.
No estimate can begin to rate it's valus
if all that Deacon HOLSTER claims for il
should prove true. From New Mexico
to the British line there are thousands
of square miles too far away from the
mountains to be successfully irrigated,
and yet-thus far at least--too far be-
yond the line of reliable rainfall to be
used for any ather purpose than pastur-
age. And now comes this African, plant
apparently adapted to furnish. both
food and fuel for all this vast country