After the mush we had fresh bread and sorghum molasses, and coffee with the cake that had been kept warm in the feathers.
This cornfield, and the sorghum patch behind the barn, were the only broken land in sight.
The family had been living on corncakes and sorghummolasses for three days.
Jake’s experience of the world was not much wider than mine.
We went all the way in day-coaches, becoming more sticky and grimy with each stage of the journey.
He seemed to us an experienced and worldly man who had been almost everywhere; in his conversation he threw out lightly the names of distant States and cities.
In Upper or Southern Egypt barley is reaped at the beginning of March, wheat at the beginning of April, and sorghumabout the end of that month.
In November, when the inundation has subsided, wheat, barley, and sorghum are sown.
If you can make sorghum molasses and moonshine without scorchin' 'em, you'll fill the bill, I reckon.
Defn: A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay.
A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
This is molasses making time in the South and I found "Uncle Jim" busily engaged in superintending the process of cooking the extracted juice from a large quantity of sorghum cane.
Old master had a big farm and he raised cotton and corn and 'taters and peanuts and sorghum cane and some ribbon cane.
I stays with Marse Ed, but he give me a patch of twenty acres and a sorghum mill to make a livin' on.
I gits dat sorghum mill to workin' good and works de Roseborough land and my patch, and raises corn and cotton and wheat.
She knowed jes' how much meal and meat and sorghum it gwine take to run de plantation a year.
For special reasons, it is still used on some of the Louisiana plantations; it is common in the farm production of sorghum molasses in the South; and in the manufacture of maple sugar in the North.
By the time the bones began to disappear entirely, they had succeeded in getting some land in a state of cultivation and raised a fair crop of millet, sorghum and Kaffir corn, crops adapted to the dry climate.
Do you think that I would sit silently and submissively by and see him shoot down the old family watch-dog, work him up into bouillion, and eat his repast in the shadow of my "sorghum stack.
Another source whence large quantities of cane sugar are procured is the Sorghum saccharatum or sugar grass.
They had simply broken down a fence during a storm, and getting into Turner's sorghum had so gorged themselves with the young plants that some of them had died.
It did not seem to matter to Borden that Turner's sorghum had been devoured.
No grave fears, however, are entertained on account of his protracted absence, as sorghum molasses run slow in cold weather.
Tobe Moseley took his jug over to the sorghum mill early Tuesday morning of last week after some molasses, and has not yet returned.
The Caffres also grow large quantities of another species of Sorghum (S.
When six o'clock came she was grubbing out a sorghum patch in front of her cabin just north of where the creek cut under the Blandsville gravel pike.
Mark how: The woman in thesorghum patch saw it happen.
The camels had not been unloaded, but had lain down to rest with their packs, and had thus eaten their feed of dhurra (Sorghum vulgare) from a mat.
Our donkeys lived exclusively upon the dhurra (Sorghum Egyptiaca) that we carried with us, and the camels required a daily supply of corn in addition to the dry twigs and bushes that formed their dusty food.
Very large quantities of dhurra (Sorghum vulgare) are grown upon this fertile soil; it is now higher than a man's head when mounted upon a camel.
The dhurra (Sorghum andropogon) is the grain most commonly used throughout the Soudan; there are great varieties of this plant, of which the most common are the white and the red.
I was anxious to see it in action, not under natural conditions, which would be impracticable, but in a glass tube in which I confine it between two thick stoppers of sorghum pith.
Under the impact of the spikes, the sorghum slowly crumbles to pieces.
The hole through the sorghum is wide and irregular; it is a clumsy breach and not a gallery.
The provisions for the troops were dhurra (sorghum vulgare), wheat, rice, and lentils.
Cultivation was carried on to a large extent throughout the country; the corn generally used was the common dhurra (Sorghum vulgare).
Sorghum vulgare is the principal grain of Southern Arabia, and the stems are also used extensively for feeding cattle.
This is a native of India (the Sorghum vulgare, the Andropogon Sorghum of Roxburgh), which produces a grain a little larger than mustard or millet seed.
Sorghum avenaceum, or Holcus avenaceus, is a native of the Cape.
Several species and varieties of sorghum have been introduced, and more or less cultivated in the United States.
Johnson Grass= (Sorghum halapense) is a coarse perennial, most extensively grown in the South or the Gulf States, for hay.
In some places the juice of sorghum is boiled down to make sirup or sugar.
The pulp was then sweetened with sorghum molasses and boiled; stirring is necessary to prevent burning.
The plums and grapes were sweetened with molasses made from sorghum cane.
They do much damage, eating the sorghum in the gardens unmolested.
Very heavy crops of maize and sorghum are raised, and the cassava bushes are seven feet in height.
The sorghum occasionally does not yield seed, and is then the Sorghum saccharatum, for the stalk contains abundance of sugar, and is much relished by the natives.
He put on my cloth as token of acceptance, and sent two large baskets of sorghum to the hut afterwards, and then sent for one of the boys to pump him after dark.
Parrots are here in numbers stealing Holcus sorghum in spite of the shouts of the women.
He presented me with a basket of siroko and of green sorghum as a fee, of which I was very glad, for my own party were suffering, and I had to share out the little portion of flour I had reserved to myself.
That was where he raised most of his corn and shoats, and lots of sorghum cane.
We may take as a typical species the sorghumcultivated in Europe, as it is figured by Host in his Graminoe Austriacoe (iv.
Bretschneider, on the other hand, says the sorghum is indigenous in China, although he says that ancient Chinese authors have not spoken of it.
Bretschneider, that the tall sorghum is indigenous in China.
The sorghum has not been found among the remains of the lake-dwellings of Switzerland and Italy.
The sorghum has not been found in a natural state in the tombs of ancient Egypt.
