The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-04-06
Farm and Home.
Egyptian OF Rice Corn.

Egyptian or Rice Corn.
The writer, p. p, in the Rural
World of January 18th, wants to
know something about Egyptian
corn. We call it here Egyptian
wheat, and l presume it is the same,
as his description describes it ex-
aetly. l raised it last year, and
from one pint, it yielded 322 pounds.
l am satisfied it will yield from Is
to 100 bushels per acre (66 pounds
per busheD. Ihave ground several
bushels this winter for my neigh
bors, and they speak in high terms
of it for bread. 1t makes excellent
batter cakes, and it is hard to tell
them from buckwheat cakes. 1t
must be planted in the spring after
frost, and cultivated same as sor-
ghum. have small sack of -four
now ready to send to Col. L. L.
Henderson, commissioner of agricul-
ture of this state, to be tested in the
kitchen. | have no seed to sell, but
will exchange seed with brother
farmers; or will send a few seed, if
they will pay postage. The drouth
last year did not appear to affect
it's growth. 1t was perfectly green
all the while We did not have any
rain for eleven weeks. l finds my
mules and horses very fond of it, as
well as all kinds of fowls.
Eatonton, Ga. r. Z. CHARLES.
p. Sour grain crops are look
ing better than they have for years;
about double the quantity have been
sown as heretofore. Corn is very
scarce, and sells at 81 per bushel
cash, and $1.40 ON time.
RE. C.
REMARKs.-We doubt whether the
meal makes better griddle cakes, or
batter cakes, or buckwheat cakes
whatever you call them-than the
-four of Early Amber or Early
Orange cane seed. We had some
very fine gingerbread at the late
st. Louis Cane Growers meeting,
made of the flour of the Early Am
Der seed, and sweetened with syrup
made out of the stalks of the same
variety. We have eaten batter
cakes made from the -four of the
Early Amber, and they were excel
lent. If farmers are going to raise
sorghum-for that is what this so
called rice or Egyptian corn is
they had better plant, it seems to
us, Early Amber or Early Orange,
for they will not only get the seed,
but the stalks make the best fodder
for all kinds of stock that can be
raised. Stock eat up the stalks
clean, and get fat on them. Cows
increase their flow of milk one
fourth or more, when given good
fodder. 1t has the sac
charine, which is needed for milk.
In reply to 2. P.'s inquiry, in the
Rural World of January 18th, l will
say that l have grown Egyptian
corn for two years, and find it to be
good feed for all kinds of stock, and
the poultry. When pre-
pared like rice, it is good for the
1 think, than hominy.
1t will also make a fine quality of
meal, but 1 have not raised enough
Of it to give it trial. 1t resembles
sorghum very much in its growth
the seed tuft being heavier and |
turned downward. The grain is
white, and larger than sorghum.
When planted early, it generally |
makes a second crop. 1t ripens !
about 100 days from planting time
After the first crop has been cut |
md the weather is favorable, from .
,wo to four suckers appear near the
,op, of which the tufts are from one
ourth to half as large as the first
me, thus making the second crop
'qual or better sometimes than the
irst. Last year planted mine very
ate, and in spite of the drouth and
hinch bugs, it made a good crop,
There Indirn corn did not make five
per acre with better cultiva-
ion, better ground and planted
arlier.
As to the yield, think it is
head of Indian corn. Let US figure
n the following; Say we plant it
our by four feet, we have POO hills
D the acre lat an average of four
talks to the hill)-fve and six are
OF too many on good soil-and half
pint of seed to the tuft, and we
ave 200 quarts, equal to eighty ]
our bushels, and nothing said of a
econd crop. If you think that l {
ave been exaggerating on the
bove, please send to your scotsman t
nd get one pound of seed and give
a trial, and, L assure you, you
i'll always have some rice or Egyp
an corn-at least enough for your
lickens. Give it a trial by all
leans.
The only objection l have to it is
lie trouble in gathering it, as it
lould be cut before quite hard. If q
it out too long, it turns gray; and I
cut and cure it makes consider !
Die work when a man is not fixed
r it. Would be pleased to hear :
ON some one through the Rural
-orld in regard to gathering a
rye crop. 1 viii close by saying
have no seed for sale. Most seeds +
en- have it. l think it is Is cents
r pound by express, postage ex- /
a. HY. SCHNELL. A
Loutre, Island, Mo-, January 20. v.
RENIARKs.-It belongs TO the sor- 81
lum family, and we doubt whether =
yields much more seed than Or 4
ige or Amber. Sorghum growers 4
ould not raise it, as when in bloom
viii cross with their cane seed.
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