Minor Cereals, Oil-bearing and Leguminous Seeds. 145 



floury middlings. Buckwheat bran and middlings are nearly 

 always used for cow-feeding, having the reputation of producing 

 a large flow of milk. It has been charged that buckwheat by- 

 products make a white, tallowy butter and pork of a low quality. 

 These charges are probably without foundation, * when the feeds 

 are not given in excess. 



The feeder may make liberal use of the floury portions of the 

 buckwheat grain, well assured that they are valuable, and that 

 usually they are an economical feed. 



193. Fertilizing constituents. Buckwheat middlings are rich 

 in fertility, especially in nitrogen and phosphoric acid, and this 

 fact should enhance their value in the estimation of the farmer- 

 stockman. 



TTT. Sorghum and Millet Seed. 

 Digestible nutrients and fertilizing constituents. 



194. Concerning sorghum. According to Collier, 2 nine-tenths 

 of the natives of India subsist upon the grain of the sorghum 

 plant. Sorghum and millet are the common cereal plants of much 

 of China and Turkestan. Sorghum seed is extensively used for 

 human food in Africa and to some extent in the West Indies. 



The sorghums may be divided into two races: saccharine and 

 non-saccharine. In the latter the plant-stems are pithy and 

 carry little or no sugar, the nutritive substance being mostly 

 deposited in the numerous seeds of the ample seed-head crowning 

 the plant. The stems of saccharine sorghums contain much 



1 Rept. Ottawa, Canada, Expt. Farms, 1895. 



2 Sorghum, Its Culture and Uses: An address before the Chamber of 

 Commerce, New York, 1885. 



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