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Panicum miliaceum. 
This is the millet grass of India, or at least one of the Indian millets. 
It bas,in Asia, been cultivated for ages, and is, in many parts, an 
important article in the food supply of the natives. It is also cultivated 
in Egypt, Turkey, and Southern Europe. It has been cultivated toa 
limited extent in this country for forage, and will thrive and ripen in 
the Northern as well as the Southern States. 
Mr. Charles L. Flint says: 
Millet is one of the best crops we have for cutting and feeding green for soiling 
purposes, since its yield is Jarge, its luxuriant leaves juicy and tender and much 
relished by milch cows and other stock. The seedis 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 60 
to 70 bushels of seed. Cut in the blossoms, 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. It is well adapted to culture in dry regions. 
(Plate 13.) 
Panicum Crus-galli ( Barnyard Grass). 
This is an annual grass, with thick, stout culms usually from 2 to 4_ 
feet high. In the Southern States it is often employed, and is consid. 
ered a valuable grass. Professor Phares, of Mississippi, says: 
In that and some other States it is mowed annually, and is said sometimes to fur- 
nish four or five tons of hay per acre. It annually reseeds the ground and requires 
no cultivation or other care, save protection from stock and the labor of harvesting. 
In one connty in Mississippi hundreds of acres are annualiy mowed on single farms. 
Cows and horses are very fond of it whether green or dry. 
In the Northern States it is seldom employed. (Plate 14.) 
Panicum sanguinale (Crab Grass). 
This is an annual grass, which, although a native of vee Old Worla, 
has become spread over most parts of this country, and indeed over all 
tropical countries. It is the most common crab grass of the Southern 
States. It occurs in cultivated and waste grounds, and grows very 
rapidly during the hot summer months. The culms usually rise to the 
height of 2 or 3 feet, and at the summit have from three to six slender 
“flower spikes, each from 4 to 6 inches long. The culms are bent at the 
lower joints, where they frequently take root. At the New Orleans 
Exposition there were specimens of this grass 5 feet 10 inches long. 
Professor Killebrew, of Tennessee, says: 
It is a fine pasture grass; although it has but few base leaves and forms no sward, 
yet it sends out numerous stems or branches at the base. It serves a most useful 
purpose in stock husbandry. It fills all ourcorn-fields and many persons pull it out, 
which is a tedious process. It makes a sweet hay, and horses are exceedingly fond of 
it, leaving the best hay to eat it. 
Professor Phares, of Mississippi, says that the corn and cotton fields 
are often so overrun with it that the hay which might be secured would 
be more valuable than the original crop. It is sometimes mowed from 
. between the rows, sometimes cut across the ridges, with the corn. 
