These seeds are largely grown in India, South Africa, Northern Africa, and America. In Bengal, great millet or guinea corn (Sorghum vulgare) is known as juwar; in Madras, as cholnm; and in South Africa and America, as "Kaffir corn." Bulrush, or spiked, millet (Pennisetum typoi-deum, Rich.) is largely grown in India, where it is called bajra. Although I have seen sorghum seed used as food for horses with fair results in South Africa and India, I have had but little experience of it, and can only say that, like maize and barley, it is best given dry, broken, and mixed with bran or chop. "The seed of Kaffir corn weighs from fifty-six to sixty pounds to the bushel. Since this grain is used by millions of human beings for food, we can readily believe it valuable for feeding farm stock. Enthusiasts declare it fully equal to Indian corn for stock feeding, but this statement seems overdrawn. Probably Kaffir corn ranks a little below barley in feeding value" (Henry).

Stewart (Feeding Animals) states that millet "is found, when well ground (and it cannot properly be fed without grinding), to be one of the best rations for horses, being particularly adapted to the development of muscular strength." The stalks of both great millet and bulrush millet are a fair substitute for grass and hay as a food, and for straw as a bedding.

Bulletin 93, March, 1900, of the Kansas Agricultural College, states that Kaffir corn is stored best in the heads, hung up separately, or loosely piled and kept dry and well aired. If the grain is stored in bins, it is liable to heat badly in damp weather. "We have fed Kaffir corn meal to horses doing heavy farm work, and have found it to be a good feed. We feed the same weight of the Kaffir corn as we would of maize. Kaffir corn is generally fed to work horses on Kansas farms, when raised in large quantities. Some farmers grind it, some feed the thrashed grain, and others feed it in the head. Feeding in the head saves all expenses of preparation, and the stems of the head being eaten with the grain seem to be of value. To young horses and those not working, Kaffir corn may be fed just as it is harvested - stalk and heads - and makes a good feed. We have usually fed Kaffir corn ground to cows, calves, and horses, but have not made sufficient trials to determine whether grinding is best for these animals or not. For mature cattle and horses we know that feeding it in the head is a satisfactory method. We have tried grinding the heads without thrashing. They grind easily in a power Bowsher iron grinding mill. The resulting meal is a good feed for animals who need roughness, and the expense of thrashing is saved."

The writers of this Bulletin point out that stock quickly tire of Kaffir corn, when it is given by itself; but that this distaste can be obviated by combining this millet with a food rich in nitrogenous matter, such as beans, bran or linseed meal. They also state that this lack of nitrogen and excess of starch render Kaffir corn a very constipating food, and that it induces an unhealthy condition, which can be easily removed by an addition of lucerne hay or soy beans, both of which are rich in nitrogen.

To obtain a percentage of nitrogenous matter equal to that of oats, in a mixture of Kaffir corn and one of the following grains, we would have to take, respectively, 12 1/2 per cent. of beans, 18 of linseed, 20 of gram, and 8 1/2 of soy beans.

The subject of great millet as an article of forage, is of special interest to horse owners in India, South Africa, the United States and other countries where the grain is grown.