The Corn of Egypt,

spoken of in the beautiful story of "Joseph and his Brethren," in the old Bible, were varieties of this family, the brown and the white Dhoura, sorghum dura and sorghum cernuum, known in our State as the white and brown Egyptian corn. It is still the chief product of the dry region of Northern Africa. Baker, the great African traveler, in his "Travels in Africa," speaks of it as giving under favorable conditions the enormous yield of 500 bushels, 30,-000 lbs., annually per acre. From my experience in the rich soil and the hot climate of our valley I believe such a yield possible. It has here yielded nearly half of that amount, and yet it was cut down by frost in midst of its growth, while in the climate of the region where Baker saw it, it would have gone on producing a crop every month for the remaining four months that would have made up the entire year.