30* MILLET. 



Tons. Tons. Tons. 



1847 . . 38,736 .. 3,033 28,375 



1848 . . 21,226 .. 4,631 15468 



1849 . . 19,397 .. 1,410 14,961 



Total imported. Re-exported. 



1849 .... 976,196 cwts. . . 290,732 cwts. 



in the husk . 31,828 qrs. 



1860 . . . 785,451 cwta. .. 248,136 



in the husk . 37,150 qrs. 



1851 .... 7i4,847cwts, .. 345,677 

 in the husk . 31,481 qrs. 



1852 .... 989.316 cwts. .. 414,507 

 in the husk . 23,946 qrs. 



The quantity of rice retained for home consumption, by the 

 corrected returns, in 1850, was 401,018 cwts. and 35,119 quarters; 

 in 1851, 399,170 cwts. and 31,481 quarters ; in 1852, 574,809 

 cwts. and 23,946 quarters. The aggregate imports range from 

 40,000 to 80,000 tons annually, of which about 500 to 800 tons 

 are in the husk. 



Among culmiferous plants and legumes used in the East, are the 

 Panicuni italicum, P. miliaceum, Eleusine coracana (the meal of 

 which is baked and eaten in Ceylon under the name of Corakan 

 flour), and Paspalum of several varieties. The pigeon pea (Cytisus 

 Cajaii), and a very valuable and prolific species of bean, called the 

 Mauritius black bean (ftfucuna utilis), growing even in the poorest 

 soil, is cultivated in India and Ceylon. Sorghum vulgare is the 

 principal grain of Southern Arabia, and the stems are also used 

 extensively for feeding cattle. The plant bears its Indian name 

 of joar, or juri, and is cultivated throughout Western Hindostan. 

 Job's tears (Croix lachryma) is another cereal grass, native of the 

 the East Indies. 



MILLET. 



MILLET of different kinds is met with in the hottest parts of 

 Africa, in the South of Europe, in Asia Minor, and in the East 

 Indies. It is a small yellowish seed, growing in dense panicles or 

 clusters, the produce of a grassy plant with large and compact 

 seeds, growing to the height, in India, of seven or eight feet. 



The millets, known to Europeans as petit mais, are tropical or 

 sub-tropical crops. In India they hold a second rank to rice alone ; 

 and in Efijypt, perhaps, surpass all other crops in importance. In 

 "Western Africa they are the staff of life. The red and white 

 millets shown by Austria, Eussia, and the United States, at the 

 Great Exhibition, were beautiful, and Ceylon exhibited fair sam- 

 ples. Turkey abounds in small grains. 



Panicum miliaceum and P.frumentaceum are the species grown in 

 the East Indies. London says there are three distinct species of 

 millet ; the Polish, the common or German, and the Indian. Setaria 

 Germanica yields German millet. The plants arc readily increased 



