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GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN 



210. Hackel ^ states that the cultivated forms had their 

 origin in Africa, but Ball^ 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 sorghvim. (After Fuchs, 1542.) 



' Hackel, Edward. The True Grasses, p. 59. 

 2BALI/, Caelbton R. TJ. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Indus., Bui. 

 175, pp. 9-10. 



