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Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 70: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Practical and Progressive Agriculture, Horticulture, Trucking, Live Stock and the Fireside; July, 1909
Sorghum, sorghum and cowpeas and millet should be seeded at once in order to make feed for stock and save the hay crop. If these crops were grown to anything like the extent to which they can be grown in the South the whole of our hay crop could be well made into a. Sale crop, and yet the numbers of our live stock be great ly increased and they be well fed all the winter. Mii lions of tons of hay come into the South every year from the West which could. Well be supplied from our own farms and yet not pinch our stock for feed. With these forage crops and a light feed of grain or, better still, with some of the abundant cotton seed 'meal of the South which _we ship to Europe _to feed stock there, our own stock could be well fed and the necessity for buying much meat from the West be avoided. Sow from three pecks to a bushel of sorghum to the acre; if sown alone: or half a bushel of sorghum and half a bushel of cow peas 'per acre, if sown together. Sow a bushel of German millet per acre. Corn to fill the silo should be planted at once if not already planted. Plant in rows three feet apart and a foot apart in, the row. _put in in this way and cultivated two or three times, it will make a crop with a fair pro portion of ears and the fodder will be well matured and make sweet and satisfying s'ilage. If you have not a silo and keep half a dozen cows you ought to have one at once. It'is-the cheapest barn a man can build and keeps. The food in a 'better condition for feeding to get the best results than any other way. The following table will enable any one to calculate the size of silo he will need for his crop and stock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.