MEADOW PLANTS 47 
TABLE XVI 
ACREAGE, PRODUCTION AND VALUE OF GRAIN Hay IN CALIFORNIA 
COMPARED WITH THE TOTAL Hay AND FORAGE AND WITH ALFALFA 
Crop Acres Amount (tons) Value 
a ee eee ee | 
Hay and forage .... 2,533,347 4,327,130 | $42,187,215 
a) 484,134 1,639,707 | 13,088,530 
2 1,604,745 2,019,526 | 24,056,727 
In the eastern states, grain hay, especially oats, is 
used on the farm in the sheaf, but nowhere does it reach 
any considerable commercial importance. Straw, as a 
by-product of grain-growing, is of some importance. Its 
use as forage is of secondary rank and is mostly confined 
to the farm, the mature straw having little nutritive value. 
When it enters commercial channels it is mostly for 
bedding and packing, though specially prepared straw 
may have other uses such as the making of hats. 
MILLETS 
56. By millet is meant foxtail millet as distinguished 
from several other grasses called millet, but with a modify- 
ing term, such as proso millet (Par. 217), pearl millet (Par. 
221), Japanese barnyard millet (Par. 218) and African 
millet (Par. 210). Millet as grown in the United States is 
found in two forms, common millet and Hungarian-grass 
(Par. 220). A form of common millet was much adver- 
tised a few years ago as Golden Wonder millet. The 
variety known as German millet is also a form of the 
common millet, differing chiefly in its longer season of 
growth. Millet is grown in the eastern half of the United 
States, especially in the region from Oklahoma to Iowa. 
It produces an abundance of nutritive and palatable hay 
