The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-04-11

As to forage--most all acquainted with
the plant have held to sowing in drill a |
foot or less apart in the row and cutting
whenever three feet high, and it may
thus be cut four or more times in season. |
From last years experience with the
plant improved think more effective re.
suits are obtained, by pulling tho fodder
when the seed Is matured, cut the seed
tops ut harvest time, and then any time
before frost, cut and store up the stalks
for feed.
have fed seven head of cattle and
three horses for roughness since Novem.
Der list, "a, exclusively from the stalks
gathered from my quarter Of an acre. and
have enough left to last them six weeks
to two months longer.
This has been q revelation to me. just
before frost l found the stalks had
thrown out shoots ut joints and that they
were fresh, filled with saccharine matter
and nutriment, while heretofore the
ripening seed had exhausted the stalk,
leaving il tibrous, hard and dry.
had filled my barn full with oats, hay
and fodder. but there It remains un.
touched--and expect to carry my stock
through to grass without calling on the
barn. OF course my cattle require bran
and cotton seed meal and the horses oats,
but IL my seed were not worth too much
to feed out, | could grind milo seed and
depend upon milo alone for stock feed
except for an occasional change OF diet
which Is good for man and beast.
The planting OF this seed is where
many farmers have made mistake and
failed to get a stand. II requires to be
enveloped with moisture for not less than
forty.eight hours. prepare the ground
the same as for cotton, with well defined
ridges, four feet apart. When ready to
plant open the ridge with bulls tongue
SO as to cover the seed with not less
than four inches of soil, and after three
days, scrape OF with board every three
inches of the ridge. and the plants will
, come along. All these small seed are
feeble at the start, and some care must
be taken in keeping the grass and weeds
out. After that, cultivate rs you would
. corn. Fertilize same as corn: plant,
say eight to twelve seed in u hill and pull
A.. out to q stand of plants to the hill.
This il enough. if not even too many to
leave, as the plant requires plenty root
!. room.
> II any body should think that / am en-
: Unused with regard to Milo Maize,
!. would like them to look at my barn. -
: full to OVERLOOKING with feeding matcria
!. which I feared might not carry me
:. through the winter with my stock-ther
y look at my stock and at my pile of stalks
= vet to feed. and think they too would
!. begin to think that the question Of for
- age was pretty nearly solved.
!, G. W. BENSON.
y, ~ Marietta, Ga.
y On the Russian frontier it once hap
10 pened that an officer was playing n
cards with friend, when jew wa
10 trying to smuggls himself into the Rn.
~ sian empire without proper wise of hi
Is passport. The sentinel on guard arreste
-. him and reported to the officer. IA
a, right" lsaid he Hours afterward tn
, sentinel again asked what he was to d
~ with the Jew. The captain. furious a
'c. being interrupted, shouted, why. d.
en- the Jew, hang him." The captain wer
n on playing until the morning, when SUI
ne denly remembering the prisoner. h
re called the soldier and said, Bring in til
OF jew" 1.-The jew" said the amazed 10
no der, "but hanged him as you ordered
what" said the captain, 'you hay
cd committed murder" He arrested hin
and the Observation-Disclosures up
the emperor. lnquiring before signin
so serious a document. and learning no
rst matters stood, the emperor decided TIL
ur the soldier who without reasoning ho
,tt obeyed implicitly so extraordinary a
Mt. order Of his superior, was TO be made
I'd. corporal; that the officer who. while. q
'er duty, for the sake of gambling. h1
Ige given the murderous order, was to
Vi. sent to Siberia. and that his pay was
nd 90 to the family Of the poor jew wi
nd had so iniquitorsly been murdered.