The Press., 1884-07-03

M1LLET.-ln0 season IS now 2G mana when farmers who have light lands, and who may possibly find themselves short of fodder for next winter feeding, should pre- pare for a crop of millet. This is plant that rivals corn for enduring a drought, and for rapid growth. There are three popular varieties now before the public, besides others not yet sufficiently tested for full endorsement The coarse, light colored millet, with rough head, Hun garian millet, with smooth, dark brown head, yielding seeds nearly black, and newer, light colored, round seeded, and later variety, known as the golden millet. Hungarian millet has been the popular variety with us for many years, although the light seeded, common miilet is but slightly different in appearance or value for cultivation. They grow in a short time, eight weeks bting amply sufficient for producing forage crop, though 8 couple of weeks more would be required for maturing the seed. Millet should not be sown ill early spring, when the weather and ground are both cold. It requires the hot weather of June and July to do we'll i; then it will keep ahead of most weeds, while If sown in April, the weeds on foul land would smother it.
 Millet needs about two months to grow in, but if sowed late in July, it will seem to ''hurry up," and make a very respecta- ble showing in less time. We have sown it in August, and obtained paying crop, but do not recommend it for such late seeding, as there are other plants that will give better satisfaction. Golden mlllet has been cultivated but few years in this country, and as yet is but little known, but from few trials, we have been quite Co ol~l- T than the other varieties, but cattle appear to be very fond of 1t nevertheless. It re- sembles corn in its growth nearly as much it is fine and soft, and it cures readily, like grass, and may be packed away in hay mows with perfect safety. It is about two weeks later than the other millets, and consequently cannot be grown in quite so sbort time, although it may produce as much weight to the acre, in 8 given period, as either of the other more common varie- ties. A bushel of seed per acre is not too much for either variety of millet.-NeaO England Farmer.
 Hartford Times Some good people in Waliingford, and perhaps few in Derby, appear to have become excited over the sanguine belief that valuable mine of dlltnTaClG0 COal Illus DocI OlSCOV0foQ Ill the west part of Derby. It is no new discov- cry. These anthracite shades have been found on, or near, the surface in that neigh borhood, in years gone by. But there is no likelihood that any very valuable coal mine is. going to be opened in Connecti- cut, or i'll any part of New England. A vein of coal, like one of gold. in this north eastern corner of the country. when found, is apt to ''run out" very suddenly. The hard coal of Rhode Island, one of the first coal discoveries in America, and made be- fore the uses of coal had become known, soon proved valueless so did the ''gold mine" of three years ago in West Ashford ]; and so did the gold mine in the White Mountain region up in New Hampshire New England is valuable part of the country, but its value evidently doesn't consist in its mining riches.