Millets


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Read about Millets in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Millets are important agricultural grasses. The true millet or Broom-corn millet of Europe is Panicum miliaceum. The common millets of the United States, the Foxtail millets, are forms of Setaria italica. African millet, also called Black, Chinese. Indian, and improperly Pearl millet, is Holcus Sorghum. The name African millet is sometimes applied to Eleusine Coracana. Barnyard or Japanese millet is Echinochloa frumentacea. Pearl millet is Pennisetum americanum. Dept. Agric., Farmer's Bull. No. 101 is devoted to foxtail millets.


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