Arizona citizen., 1879-10-25
Bee OF EnHnfInn Corn.

1T one-half is true that is claimed
 for this corn, our Arizona agricultur
 alists ought to lose no time in procur
 ing the seed and cultivaiing it. Fol
 lowing is part of a correspondence
 about its adoption to dry lands, yield
 and value:
 As the facts in relation to this new cereal are new and so curious and in teresting, they are given in detail. NIT. Hollisier has rauche of some 1900 |acres three or four miles south of Kin lsley, on tine Atchison, Topeka and santa Fc railway. kinsley is in the valley of the Arkansas in what is of- ten called the dry belt" 3lG miles west Of Kansas City and about the same distance east of Pueblo. Last year a neighhor raised some of the rice corn, and his success induced Dea- con HollistCr To recommend its intro duc..on to his ranche. He had forty acres of sod turned over last spring and having procured several quarts of the seed. with an ordinary seed plant CT he deposited two or three grains a foot or two apart in the sod. There had not been a drop of rain for the previous eight months, and it did not rain for five weeks after the planting; yet the seed germinatcd. The corn
 CAME UP AND CREW FINELY.
 After it got started, the hot blasts came up from the Plano Estacado (Staked Plains, burning mp the grass and ey- cry green thing in the gardens, scOrch- ing like the blasts from a furnace, and yet it did not affect the new conner from Egypt a particle IL grew right along in spite of the heat. Then the rain came on and the sturdy grain was equally indifferent 10 that. IL grew right on, and ripcned about the first of September, yielding some sixty bush els to the acre, weighing sixty pounds to the bushel. The stalk for some three feet from the ground is about as large as a mans coat sleeve, and is a perfect wood. This in all the treeless regions east of the mountains is
 A MOST IMPORTANT FACT,
 as an acre or two will furnish fuel for a family for an entire year. From the top of this woody substance issues a stalk. on the top of which a tuft some thing like that of sorghum issues, this soon druOps over, and the whole bunch is one mass of grain. The kernal is about the size of a grain of wheat, per haps a little smaller, and more nearly f1 d, ~huck or independent capsule. The grain can be ground into an excellent flour, from which bread and other food can be made; it can be boiled and eat en as rice or cracked wheat, and in fact can be used for any purpose for which our ordinary cereals are employed. A neighhOr of Deacon Hollister, who raised a small crop last year, assured him that it fattened his pigs faster than he had ever known common corn or any other feed to do it.
 Now, the only thing about this story is that it seems
 ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
 No estimate can begin to rate its value if all thai Deacon HOlliStcr claims for lt -NtA.t prove INt- ItIt NtW -utA- co to the British line there are tens of thousands of square miles too far away from the mountains to be successfully irrigated, and yct-thUs far ut least. too far beyond the line of reliable rainfall Co be used for any other purposes than pasturage. And now comes this African plant apparently adapted to furnish both food and fuel f.-. LII .Lt- t-u-t n.lInlrr-