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ripe. It therefore reseeds the land, and does not need 
to be sown. Its seed habits are such, in fact, that it 
can hardly be handled as a domesticated grass, for it 
is impracticable to harvest the seed. On account of 
its large yield of most excellent hay it is not generally 
considered a pest. The continuous cultivation of cot- 
ton-fields prevents it from bothering in them. When 
corn-lands have once become seeded to it a good crop 
of hay can be secured late in summer every year after 
the corn is harvested. Not infrequently a field, when 
well seeded to Colorado grass, is left untouched till 
late in May. It is then plowed and harrowed, and the 
grass allowed to grow, making a fine crop of hay. It 
is very leafy, the large, flat leaves resembling those of 
“the foxtail millets. Like them, it is hard to cure for 
hay, but when well cured it is said to make hay of 
superior quality. This grass has been tried very gen- 
erally over the South, but has gained little headway 
except where it has spread as a weed. By recognizing 
its essentially weedy character, and handling it accord- 
ingly, it may be made a valuable adjunct to the hay- 
producing plants on rich alluvial soils in the extreme 
South. On suitable soils it easily displaces crab-grass, 
but on light, dry soils it cannot cope with this less 
useful and weedy grass. 
FEEDING VALUE OF MILLET HAY 
It is universally agreed that millet hay is highly 
nutritious, and that it is eaten by all classes of stock 
as readily as any other hay generally grown in this 
country; in fact, many feeders state that stock prefer 
it to timothy. For the past half century it has been 
