COMMON MILLBT. 



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vated in this country, and its culture is gaining favor 

 every year. Millet is one of 

 the best crops we have for cut- 

 ting and feeding green for soil- 

 ing purposes, since its yield is 

 large, its luxuriant leaves juicy 

 and tender, and much relished 

 by milch cows and other stock. 



The seed is rich in nutritive 

 qualities, but it is very seldom 

 ground or used for flour, 

 though it is said to exceed all 

 other kinds of meal or flour in 

 nutritive elements'. An acre, 

 well cultivated, will yield from 

 sixty to seventy bushels of 

 seed. Cut in the blossom, as 

 it should be, for feeding to 

 cattle, the seed is comparatively 

 valueless. If allowed to ripen 

 its seed, the stalk is no more 

 nutritious, probably, than oat 

 straw. 



Millet requires good soil, and 

 is rather an exhausting crop, 

 but yields a produce valuable in 

 proportion to the richness of 

 the soil, and care and expense 

 of cultivation. 



Few-flowered Panic {Pani- 

 cum paudflorum) is found in 

 wet meadows, from New York 

 to Wisconsin, and southward. 

 Stems upright, from one to two 



Fig. 122. Common Millet. 



