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in this country, and of the west in Canada, have highest 

 adaptation for it. In these areas, it may frequently be 

 grown with much appropriateness to furnish not only hay- 

 but also grain for live stock in the seed which it matures. 

 Since it grows best in warm weather and will mature in 

 about 75 days, according to the variety, it may furnish a 

 crop of seed on land where crops sown earlier may have 

 failed, or where early spring sowing was not practicable be- 

 cause of excessive moisture. Yields of not less than 30 

 bushels of seed per acre and weighing 48 to 56 pounds per 

 bushel are easily obtainable from such lands. As the com- 

 position of millet is much like that of oats, and as it has but 

 little hull, its feeding value for live stock, especially where 

 corn is not successfully grown for the grain, will be at once 

 apparent. Owing to the hardness of the grain, it is fed only 

 in the ground form, except when fed to sheep and fowls. 



For calves and young cattle, ground millet furnishes a 

 suitable concentrate. More especially when fed in conjunc- 

 tion w'ith oats, millet meal should be quite suitable for 

 young calves, since the proportion of hull is small. Along 

 with oats, say in equal parts by weight, calves may be given 

 about all of the mixture that they will take during the milk 



For cattle being fattened, ground millet is a useful 

 food when it forms from 33 to 50 per cent, according to the 

 stage of the fattening, less being fed as the season advances. 

 The other factor is preferably corn, but may be barley. Mil- 

 let and wheat may also be similarly fed. 



For con's in milk, ground millet may profitably form 

 any portion of the grain ration up to 50 per cent of the 

 grain fed, should occasion require it. Ground oats and 

 wheat, barley, rye or corn, in equal parts by weight, may ap- 

 propriately furnish the other portion. 



To sheep, millet seed furnishes suitable food. More 

 commonly it is fed to them unground. It may be fed alone, 

 but oats mixed with it, add to the bulk and porosity of the 



