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SORGHUM. 



The following article on Sorghum was, by accident, left out 

 oj its proper place, which should have been under cereals. 



SORGHO SUCRE. 



CHINESE SUGAR CORN -(Sorghum nigrum.) 



Has an erect stem, six to twelve feet high, smooth ; leaves linear, 

 flexons, curving, bending at the ends. Flowers in a panicle at the top, 

 turning as it ripens from a green to a purplish color. 



In 1854, some insignifi- 

 cant packages of seeds were 

 sent from the, then, patent 

 office, bearing this inscrip- 

 tion : 



"sugar millet. 



(Sorgho Sucre.) 



(Good for fodder, green or dry, 

 and for making sugar.") 



Who could have foreseen, 

 from these few characters, 

 that a plant was then being 

 added to this country more 

 important than any since the 

 discovery of America and 

 the discovery, to Europeans, 

 of Indian corn? 



In the midst of the great 

 success of the New World 

 in agricultural products, the 



