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it hangs downward. It is somewhat more open 

 than the seed head which is produced in Kaffir corn. 



There are two leading varieties of Milo maize, 

 named respectively the yellow and the white. The 

 former is the earlier of the two. In 1897 som.e of 

 the seed of the yellow variety matured at the Minne- 

 sota university experiment station, but not all of it. 

 In 1898, one plat of the same variety was pastured 

 with sheep. About the same results were obtained 

 as from pasturing early amber sorghum. Another 

 plat was grown i^ rows three feet distant from one 

 another and harvested like corn. It was found that 

 the numerous leaves around the top of the plants 

 added to the difficulty in shocking and in preserving 

 the fodder from injury by rain. \Mien fed to cattle 

 and sheep they ate it with more relish than they mani- 

 fested for any of the other non-saccharine sorghums. 



Dhourra (Andropogon sorghum, Brot.) is of at 

 least four varieties, the brown, the black, the red and 

 the white. Of these, the brown is more commonly 

 grown. It is so named, doubtless, from the color 

 of the seeds when ripe. It grows less rapidly than 

 Milo maize. At the Minnesota university experi- 

 ment station in 1897, tjie plants grew from six to 

 eight feet in hight. The large and long leaves are 

 not numerous. The seed heads are thick and heavv 

 and oval shaped. They hang on a stem, which, 

 though erect at first, assumes a shape resembling t!ie, 

 neck of a goose as the maturing process goes on. It 

 IS a rather slow grower and matures seed about the 

 same time as Kaffir corn. 



Jerusalem corn (Andropogon sorghum, Brot.") 

 bears some i-esemblance to dhourra in appearance 



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