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most widely grown variety. It is fine-stemmed and leafy, 

 with a small cylindrical head, compact except near the 

 base, and numerous yellow fruits. It has a short season 

 of growth and produces a fair yield of good quality hay. 

 The California and the Gold Mine are heavy-yielding 

 strains of common millet. 



Other names that belong here, in the main at least, 

 are Small millet, Dakota millet, Early Harvest millet, 

 Missouri millet and American millet. This variety has 

 long been cultivated in the United States, but its early 

 history is obscure. 



German. This variety is coarser than the common, 

 with broad leaves and a distinctly lobed, much larger and 

 somewhat looser head. The individual fruits are yellow 

 like the common, but smaller and less flattened. The 

 season of growth is fully two weeks longer, and the hay 

 yield is larger but not quite so good in quality. 



The Golden Wonder is a selected type of the German 

 in which the head is distinctly lobed but more compact, 

 longer and more slender. It makes good yields of both 

 forage and seed. 



Other names that have been applied to German millet 

 are Southern millet, Mammoth millet, Golden millet and 

 Bengal-grass. German millet was introduced into the 

 United States before 1870, at which time it was well 

 known in Tennessee. It has always been the most im- 

 portant millet in the South. Owing to its coarser habit 

 it yields more per acre than other varieties. It is, however, 

 not so resistant to severe drought. The original source 

 of German millet is doubtful, probably India, but its 

 introduction into Tennessee was from France. 



The Golden Wonder variety is said by Crozier to 

 have originated in Michigan in 1884, and its introducers 



