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and for some time subsequently, would enable them 

 to grow up again more quickly and more vigorously 

 than if such cultivation were not given. 



Pasturing. — Any class of live stock may be 

 grazed upon millet. Sheep will injure it less 

 through treading than other animals. The stock 

 may be turned in upon it as soon as the plants are 

 sufficiently well rooted to retain their hold upon the 

 soil while it is being grazed. This period will vary 

 with variations in soils, but usually it will arrive 

 some days before indications of jointing manifest 

 themselves in the plants. When sown on summer 

 fallows where green manure is an important consid- 

 eration, the millet may be allowed to reach a more 

 advanced stage of growth before live stock are 

 turned in upon it. The uneaten residue may be 

 plowed under to benefit the soil. 



At the Minnesota University experiment sta- 

 tion, Pearl millet has been grazed down, at least to 

 some extent, by sheep. The results were not dis- 

 couraging. The sheep fed upon it without hesita- 

 tion, and when'removed from the plot it sprang up 

 quickly again. But it should not be allowed to 

 become coarse and rank before turning in the sheep. 

 Where sorghum can be grown in good form, how- 

 ever, it is questionable whether, under any condi- 

 tions, it would be more advantageous to grow Pearl 

 millet for pasture. 



