EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS 



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NEW MILLETS. 



In the report of the station for 1895 is an account of three varieties 

 of millet from Corea, the seed which was sent by Hon. J. M. B. Sill, U. 

 S. Minister to that country. Later in the same year four additional sam- 

 ples, described below, were received from the same source: They were 

 planted May 20, 1896. 



No. 1. Sorghum. "Grows high like sugar cane. Used for sweetening 

 and in candies, for which purpose only the seeds are employed, these 

 being boiled and the syrup used. The 'plant is used for fuel and thatch- 



ing, but 



not for forage. 



The juice is not sweet. The heads resemble 



1. Crimson Clover. 2. Red Clover. Each six weeks from seed. 



broom corn, and are occasionally used for short brushes after the seeds 

 are removed. The seeds are bitter and not eaten." 



Only a few of these seeds germinated. The plants were rather feeble 

 on the start, but grew with vigor later, and became taller than any other 

 kind of sorghum on trial. The plants have a general resemblance to 

 early amber, but are larger and taller, and the head is large and looser.. 

 The seeds failed to mature. 



No. 3. Panicum miliaceum. (No. 2 was Sesame and is omitted here.) 

 "Height about three feet. Seeds eaten with glutinous rice; also made into 



