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TABLE XVI 



Acreage, Production and Value of Grain Hay in California 



Compared with the Total Hay and Forage and with Alfalfa 



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 



