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COBN CROPS 



GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN 



210. Hackel ^ states that the cultivated forms had their 

 origin in Africa, but BalP believes that they also had 

 an independent origin in India as well. 



The early history of sorghum culture is unknown, but 



Fig. 95. — Plant of sorghuni. (After Fuchs, 1.542.) 



1 H.iCKEL, Edward. The True Grasses, p. 59. 



2 Ball, Caeleton R. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Indus., Bui. 

 175, pp. 9-10. 



