The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-03-30

aUOuUb lS alInOSb luCIcOlDlO WHICH, buO
conditions are OF the best, and all
operations properly conducted.
PEARL MILLET.
Ground prepared as for corn
rows tour feet apart-seed dropped,
if possible, about three or four inches
apart. Cultivation as for drilled corn
mo grass or weeds to be allowed.
When three to four feet high, COM
mence cutting and feeding, and con-
tinue to cut as the fresh growth
comes on, during the whole season.
Once or twice, during the summer,
sprinkle some good fertilizer between
the rows, and work it in-using say
100 pounds to the acre. This will
keep your crop growing vigorously,
and supply an abundance of excel
lent forage until the early frost OF
TALL We do not consider the pearl
millet especially valuable tor nay f;
but, as q continuous green forage
crop, it has no equal, so far as we
know. But the land upon which it
grows must be very rich, and in the
best possible condition.
cow PEAS
May be sown either in the drill or
broadcast, on moderately rich land.
At least two crops year may be
easily grown in Florida, and there is
no better or more nutritious hay
made in the world. The pea is
somewhat difficult to cure properly
as hay, but it can be done; and we
will describe the nsodus hereafter.
DoURA CORN, SoRGHo, IMPHEE,
"cHIcKEN CORN" HUNGARIAN
GRASS, GERMAN MILLET, &c,
Nav all be used as green forage,
and the two last cured and made
into excellent hay.
RICE,
Also, il sown thickly in the drill,
and cut just as the grain is in the
dough stage, makes very valuable
dry forage or hay. and it is not diff
cult to cure and preserve it.
FLOSINTE
A new forage plant, tried here for
the first time last year, by our friend
DR.. Kenworthy, of this city. We
hear marvellous accounts of the Won
derful growth and yield ofthis plant,
and having procured seed, we hope
to test it fully the present season.
OATS, RYE AND BARLEY
Are all very valuable, either green
or dry, as forage or hay. These
grains should be sown in the fall in
three foot drills, and may be cut and
used or fed off at any stage of their
growth.
GUINEA GRASS
Is perennial and may be propa>
gated from seed or by division of
the roots. This latter method is the
quickest and surest, and should be
done the last OF March or early in
April. If the land is very lich and
we'll prepared, this grass will afford
several cuttings during the season.
It does not make first class hay
| but is a good, coarse. green forage,
of which horses and mules are mode
rately tond. Plant the roots in four
feet drills, two feet apart in the drill.
Cut when two to four feet high.
Manure as directed for pearl millet,
occasionally, during the growing sea
son, to keep the plants in good heart,
and promote rapid and strong
growth.
The Para grass from Brazil, has
some: excellent Florida traits. 1t
grows we'll on moist or even wet
land, aud can be propagated either
from pieces OF root or cuttings of the
stems. Mr.. Hart, OF Federal Point,
Florida-good authority-ranks it
high as nutritious grass, and our
own experience thus far, is favorable.
There are thousands of acres of wet
land in this State now lying idle and
worthless, upon which Para grass
could be grown to very great profit,
and we hope to see its culture
greatly extended.
The corn forage pearl" or scat
tail" millet; doura corn, sOrgho, i'm
phee, Hungarian grass, German mil
let, and all of the millet family, may
be sown now, and at intervals during
the summer, to keep up q succession