. Dry land farming in the Southwest .. . Continued feeding of millet to horses some times causes incurable lameness. It is fairly safe to use for horses when cut early and only one feed a day is given of the millet hay and some other forage at the other feedings. Millet is chiefly valuable as a cattle feed. DWARF ESSEX RAPE. This is one of the best "catch crops" for hog pasture. In dry land districts it must be sown as early in the spring as oats, or in the fall after the hot weather is passed. "When Dwarf Essex rape is sown early it will get a good start and is a fair drought r
. Dry land farming in the Southwest .. . Continued feeding of millet to horses some times causes incurable lameness. It is fairly safe to use for horses when cut early and only one feed a day is given of the millet hay and some other forage at the other feedings. Millet is chiefly valuable as a cattle feed. DWARF ESSEX RAPE. This is one of the best "catch crops" for hog pasture. In dry land districts it must be sown as early in the spring as oats, or in the fall after the hot weather is passed. "When Dwarf Essex rape is sown early it will get a good start and is a fair drought resister. Sown in May or June, midsummer droughts are likely to kill it. It may be sown about the middle of September if the ground is moist and then will usually make good hog pasture until January 1st. It withstands hard frosts and I have seen it alive and fresh in Colorado under a light snow. Drill in rows two or three feet apart, using three to five pounds of seed an acre, and culti- vate thoroughly until a vigorous growth is se- cured. Sudan Grass Dugout Chicken House. SUDAN GRASS seems to be the hay plant that the Dry Land farmers of the Southwest have needed so long. It has been grown six years in the Panhandle of Texas, yielding a ton of hay an acre in dry seasons and four tons an acre in years of good rainfall. It has done well in the dry lands of Kansas, Oklahoma, eastern Colorado and eastern New Mexico. Sudan grass is considered to be the original type of wild sorghum and is often called the "mother of all the ; Like the sor- ghums and the kafirs it is a vigorous drought re- sister and will wait a long time for rain. During a prolonged drought it stops growing and stands still, but it lives. When rains come it makes a quick and heavy growth, seeming to have accu- mulated energy while it waited for rain. The hay is much like that made from sorghum except that the stems are finer, about the size of a lead pencil, the hay therefore containing a greater
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