64:6 Grasses and Leguminous Crops in New York 



mostly as porridge. Like all other crops in that coimti-y, it is 

 cultivated in rows two feet apart, the seed being scattered in a 

 continuous drill, or more commonly in little bunches, a foot apart 

 in the row. It produces in good soil a vast amount of forage." 



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Fig. 644. — A Seed Head or Panicle of Barnyard 

 OR Japanese Millet. Scale on the Leit 

 Graduated to Inches and Fractions Thereof. 



This millet probably originated from the common barnyard 

 grass (Echinochloa crus-galli), which is a weed in cultivated fields 

 and along watercourses in the tropics and warm temperate regions. 

 Barnyard millet differs from the weed in its more erect habit of 



