IIO0 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES 
acres. Seed grown in this manner is usually plumper 
and of better appearance than seed from thicker sow- 
ing. It is especially recommended to sow in rows and 
cultivate when growing millet on poor and weedy soil. 
New land is preferred for seed growing because of the 
absence of weeds. In the case of the broom-corn 
millets, the seed of which is considerably larger than 
that of the foxtail varieties, about three pecks of seed 
is used, either for hay or for seed production. While 
the seed of German millet is smaller than common 
millet and Hungarian grass-seed, that variety does not 
stool out so much as the other two just mentioned, and 
for this reason the larger number of seeds in a given 
volume gives no thicker stand of German millet than 
the smaller number contained in the same volume of 
common millet and Hungarian grass. : 
When grown for seed, millet may be cut with an 
ordinary twine-binder, and threshed the same as wheat, 
using, of course, finer riddles and less draft. ‘The yield 
of seed is ordinarily from twenty to forty bushels per 
acre, though yields of eighty or more bushels have 
been obtained on good soil in favorable seasons. Ac- 
cording to Professor Crozier, the average yield in 
twenty-seven counties in Iowa in the year 1889 was 
twenty-seven bushels. In the seed trade Hungarian 
grass-seed is bought and sold on a basis of 48 lbs. to 
the bushel, while 50 lbs. is considered a bushel of com- 
mon and German millet. The legal weight of all three 
varieties is 50 lbs. per bushel in most of the States that 
have legislated on the subject. 
Millet seed is excellent feed for all kinds of stock, 
but the price is usually too high to justify its use for 
