LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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1. Field of forage corn. Minnesota. (C. P. Bull) Frontispiece 



2. Harvesting a grain crop in the rotation (Henry Troth) 19 



3. Rye, at best stage of maturity for soiling 47 



4. Head of Barnyard millet (M. A. Carleton) 75 



5. Barnyard millet ( Panicum Crns-galU) 77 



6. Barnyard millet, ready for soiling forty-five days from seeding. 



Yield, fourteen tons per acre 78 



7. Common millet. About natural size (M. A. Carleton) 80 



8. German millet. Nearly natural size (M. A. Carleton) 81 



9. Hungarian millet. About natural size (M. A. Carleton) 82 



10. Golden Wonder millet. About three-fourths natural size (M. A. 



Carleton ) 83 



11. German and Pearl millets, seeded on same day. German millet 



to the left, Pearl millet to the right , 87 



12. Pearl millet ( Pennisetum spicatuni ) 89 



13. Broom-corn millet [Panictim miliaceum) (M. A. Carleton) 91 



14. Seeds or grains of Broom-corn millet 92 



15. Teosinte. Note the branching or bushy habit of the ])lant 93 



16. Black-hulled White kafir corn 96 



17. Typical head of Black-hulled White kafir corn (A. M. Ten Eyck) 98 



18. Typical head of Red kafir corn (A. M. Ten Eyck) 101 



19. Yellow milo maize, one of the doura group 102 



20. Typical head of Dwarf milo maize, a form or strain of the Yellow 



milo maize 105 



21. Forms of kafir corn, and a sweet sorghum. (1) Brown doura; 



(2) Black-hulled While kafir corn; (3) Red kafir corn; (4) 

 Kavanaugh sorghum; (5) Yellow milo maize; (6) Large 

 African millet, or White milo maize 108 



22. Yellow milo maize (to the left), and Rural Branching doura (to 



the right) Ill 



23. Millet (on the left); kafir corn (on the right) 112 



24. Roots of kafir corn, sixty days after planting 114 



25. Roots of sorghum, sixty days after planting 115 



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