. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. f these the first-named maturesin the shortest time, and is the predominant variety inthe northern part of the millet-growing sedlion. Ger-man millet is the latest of these three varieties, and isthe standard in the southern portion of the is intermediate in length of season, andpredominates in the Eastern States. Although eachvariety thus has a s
. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. f these the first-named maturesin the shortest time, and is the predominant variety inthe northern part of the millet-growing sedlion. Ger-man millet is the latest of these three varieties, and isthe standard in the southern portion of the is intermediate in length of season, andpredominates in the Eastern States. Although eachvariety thus has a sedlion of country in which it leadsall others in importance, they are all sown more orless in all sedtions. On account of its short season,common millet is best adapted for late sowing, espe-cially in the North. It is also the best variety on poorsoils, and resists drouth more than the others. Ongood soils, when it can be sown fairly early, Germanmillet is the largest yielder. A typical form of foxtailmillet is seen in Fig. 21. Common millet was the first variety to gain prom-inence in this country. The date of its introdudtionis unknown, but it has been grown more or less formore than a century. It does not grow so large as. FIG. 21—TYPICAL FORM OF FOXTAIL MILLET THE MILLEJTS 113 the other two varieties mentioned above, but the headsare larger and more open than those of Hungariangrass. Its seed is yellow, oval in outline, and is some-what larger than that of Hungarian grass. It pro-duces several stems from the same seed. Hungarian grass has the smallest and most com-padl head of any of these three varieties. Its seed isshaped like those of common millet, but is mixed incolor, part being yellow, part dark purple, and partintermediate between these two colors. Like commonmillet, it produces several stems from the same is intermediate in the length of season between theother two varieties, and is most popular in the EasternStates, where the seasons are short and where
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