The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-21
snrghum Tor Stock.

a MONTGOMERY County lTanrossccl
farmer writing in Tho Practical Farmer
says:
/ once heard q good farmer say be
believed be could raise three times as
much feed ca an acre Ct sorghum as
any other crop he ever tried. Having
raised several crops Solely for feeding
stccll my experience is very much the
same, though we nave no Geo. NJ.
Clark yields of hay in this country,
nor farmers With enough enterprise
to make the effort lie has. With us it
can be planted any time in May or
even as late as middle of June. on rich
land, q rich bottom preferred; it won't
| pay on poor land 1t is usually drilled
in rows about tlisep and a half feet
/ apart prefer to stcp-drOp il and put
! from FIVE to ten seed in a place. about
two and a half feet apart. so Il man can
take hold Of several stalks aud cut
! with 4 corn knife faster than ff it was
/ scattered all down the row The seed
are very slow to come up in dry. hot
weather; this can be greatly overcome
! b. pouring wafer over them, hot as you
can bear your hand il. and let them
soak from twelve to twenty hours.
1t should be kept clean and worked I'M
I'll two or three feet high, after that it
will outgrow and Keep down weeds ard
grass Dent think there is much sub
stance in it FOR feed until after it be-
gins to make seed. and juice in stalk
gets sweet, about like clover before and
after it heads out. My plan for saving
has been to lay off for shock rows and
cut half of it and let it lie on ground
till partially cured by tile sun, say from
one-half to one and one-half days, &C.
cording to the weather and heat Of the
sun; then set it mp and cut the other
half and add to it; it is too heavy to
shock like corn, and best to- set two
posts in the ground securely. eight feet
! apart, and nail a scantling on top six
teen feet long, so that each end will
extend four feet beyond the posts
(wouid do Just as wen to cut forks in
woods and lay a pole in them, and set
sorghum on each side Of pole; this
leaves open space for air To circulate
between pole ana the ground: pole
should be about four or five feet high.
It keeps gerry weir this way left in the
field to haul in as used. though il
would be better to haul ana store in
barns before cold weather. as stalk
dries III and Loses most of it's feeding
yalEc after il freezes; if put in barn il
must Ike set up. as it won't keep lying
down l have found it good winter
feed for both COWS and horses. and
never had any results from feeding
IT, though always gave it as part oi
-, daily ration with other feed: began
, by giving little at n time; carried my
, mules ard horses through several win
] tcrs in very good fix ny giving tAerr
cut oats ana sorghum at night and ffy,
ears corn and mixed clover hav Il
:. morning and Gaily feed. I've used sor
!, Shum to help ont dried I'D pastures
= / by planting it inside Of fields Eext t,
, pasture to cut and give to stock il
: August ard September. Have seer
- horses begin at one end of stalk AM
!, eat it up with the sticky juice runuln,
:. down each side of their mouth. an,
:. almost smiling, with looa OF "soii,
= comfor'' on their brow such as can b.
: carried only IL the wei fed horse.