The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-27

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@Bseklssas Eenssisns,s % thsy cAll h scw Il
seemA ! received TN yeafs ago iz1m IL Ekssnt
O11cs . ew sseds a what Ws tkc1 l.sIIed
Hplisa DpSaS = .sDninA Cuh.1 p b
the aTeosints described In your issue ii the
| 18th Of August M
! have cnltiysied Il for green fodder lpr NeArs.
std ibr green selling n hss. in my jadsmeat, no
equal n the 6oatA. have cut 4 three tiEles In
ous summer, with m average height Of sik hek
The STALK i saGasy, saceulsnt and tender, and
its mas Of blade 10 exceptional and mist be
ssen 70 bs fully appreciated. ItA.owIng ID this,
hard to cure - fsddeE, snle@ the stalk ID le out
and I'D separately in Ereen state. Il requires .
rich or well frtilised soi, md 10 realize iis fhll
capacity should b boed ard -ieftilized beJween
the rows afer each successive cutting; 4 lAis b
well and carefully done, and ths crop Is given
an eariy san, bar cuttings can b made ln one
season. A portion should be len uncut fol seed,
which natures and ripens continually from June
10 October, or later Il no frost intervenes ahave
now one row which I left on my old gnSunds,
and ioanA ihs spring that the rAftoons we're un-
touched BY tie frost. mannred and cultivated
it, and Il b the finest and most productive lever
raised Ordinarily, 1t h killed by the cold weather
Of winter. plant in drills, (last Of February or
6rst Of Harch,) shout eighteen inches apart
drilling In the seeds inch or two inches apart.
When il first appears above the ground Il looks
like blade Of grass and requires At first Close at
tentlon and clean culture, but II soon develops
its robust nature, and In few weeks after getting
fairly started viii another out AL grass and weeds
more efecially than full stand Of sugltcane.
OF course, where there is room il can be PLANTED
three or four feet In the and cultivated az Is
corn or cotton being careful TO plant closi in the
drill 90 as to svoid making stalk instead of blade
If Southern farmers win put up . PRACTICAL
silo and raise Euchleana LuxuriaIs," or
"Douna Corn" they can raise all the cattle and
make all the huiter and cheese that the South
consumes, and compete in any market with the
Northern producer. / have been for eight years
trying to call attention TO IL as Dourra !" now
that 1t has been re-baptized and got high sound
ing name trust it will boom efIectualIf The
plant seeds well In this latitnde. buf il hard to
keep from weevils without extra attention. II
should be pat into Close vessel and afler mixing
it freely with camph0r, bosax (powderCd dFy),
and Scotch snuf, scaled and set away until plant
ing lime. The wecvil ct one time reduced my
supply to single seed, and from THU seed
raised enough the next year 10 plant half an acre
in eighteen inch drills
TIE ICED b ussa iD Egype 70 5ssd steck as we
use.oais and corn, and . meal b made oil 1t that
10 superior TO, while it somewhat refembles
buckwheat; it is prepared and used in t!se same
form AZ q baiier-cake; 1t ia whittier and more
delicate and pslatable than bnckwheat nEbur 1t
makes fine feed for young poultry, and. af raised
for seed alone. believe. from observation but
without an actual test experiment that DO or 40
bushels Of clean seed can be raised TO the acre
1t is hard to clean, and would need tErashing
machine slightly modified 10 do the work effectu-
ally and speedily.
Give my kiAdest regards % Juags HiEIon, and
permit me 10 Soy 10 him that in hndiRg q Teo-
sinte" he haa found bonanza, and fhsa when
he struck Dourra Com" be has strack ile."
j. DENNIS WoLFis,
pons>4olA, Florida