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BULLETIN 58, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
PROPAGATION. 
Wild millet is easily cultivated and reseeds itself. It requires a 
moist and preferably a rich soil, such as the edge of a marsh or lake, 
and it will grow in water at least a foot in depth. Break up the 
soil (mainly for the purpose of discouraging other plant growth) and 
sow thickly in spring. Once established, the plant will take care of 
itself. The nearer to water it is planted the more available it will be 
for duck food. It is a splendid plant to use for low lands that are 
flooded in winter. 
The seeds are sold by most seedsmen under the name barnyard 
grass. A variety has been widely advertised as Japanese barnyard 
-Fruiting heads of wild 
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millet or billion-dollar grass. The plant is also known as cock-pur 
_- 3S and sour grass. It may be cultivated in any part of the United 
States having the proper soil conditions. 
BANANA WATER LILY 
VALUE AS DUCK FOOD. 
The writer has investigated the value of the banana water lily 
Nymphaea mexicana) as a food for wild ducks in only one locality — 
Lake Surprise, Tex. The proofs of its importance are so great, how- 
ever, that they should be brought to the attention of American 
sportsmen. At Lake Surprise the banana water lily alone made up 
