Millets are excellent for ensilage, and a succession of cuttings for that purpose or for soiling can be easily secured by sowing at intervals of two or three weeks from early May to late July.
Chauchard, who has the finest collection ofMillets in existence.
Wheat and the millets juari and kodon are the staple foods of the cultivating classes in the northern Districts, and rice is kept for festivals.
The millets thrive in the hot summer climates; they survive when the available soil moisture is reduced to a low limit, and they grow vigorously when the heavy rains come.
Two of the small millets (Setaria italica, and Panicum milliaceum), wheat, maize and buckwheat are other grains which are used as food but chiefly to give variety and change of diet.
In the latter are grown wheat and other spring crops, while the lighter kinds of rice and the hill millets are all that the poorer land can bear.
Rice is too expensive in Bengal and in many parts of India for it to be a staple food for the lower orders, and on these millets a native subsists on an average of one penny per day.
Others again were filled with barley, and those coarsemillets on which the natives subsist; and all the crops were kept alive and green by that terribly laborious process of irrigation.
One chief reason for this is its small size,--it is but about 21 x 25 inches--and then it is certainly not to be compared for painting with half a dozen other Milletswhich are here.
One of the finest Millets I have ever seen is here, lent by Mr. Walters.
The Millets number about a third of the paintings and among them is an interesting variation of the "Sower," narrower in shape than the others and with a steeper hillside.
When the first showers of rain fall they scatter seed of the small millets into the soft covering of wood ashes, and the fertility of the soil is such that without further trouble they get a return of a hundred-fold or more.
They grow the small grass-millets kodon and kutki for their subsistence, selling the more valuable crops for rent and expenses.
Soil of this description is free of forest growth, and the monsoon rainfall in this part of the province is sufficient to encourage an easy, but very precarious, cultivation of autumn millets and pulses.
Dádrí is a dry sandy tract, in which the Autumn millets are the chief crop.
Some millets were grown in the autumn and the sandhills yielded melons.
The vastness of the arid areas which without irrigation yield no crops at all or only cheap millets and pulses makes his works of inestimable benefit to the people and a source of revenue to the State.
The dry cultivation consists of millets in the Autumn, and of gram and mixed crops of wheat or barley and gram in the Spring, harvest.
The millets look luxuriant; And in a spacious resting place, I collect and encourage the men of greater promise [1].
The boundaries and smaller divisions are nicely adjusted, And the millets yield abundant crops, The harvest of the distant descendant.
They should, therefore, be made to precede such crops as the small cereals, corn, the sorghums, the millets and cotton.
The millets are objectionable as nurse crops through the denseness of the shade which they furnish and also because of the heavy draught which they make on soil moisture.
Paris wanted dainty, aesthetic art, and an Academy artist would have scoffed at the idea; but the Millets were starving anyway, so why not starve doing at least what one chose.
The Millets got into a rumbling old cart and started in search of the place which ended in "zon" near the forest of Fontainebleau.
But the Millets must change their place of living, and go to some place where the money made would not at once be eaten up.
One-fourth of the population of India lives on rice; and various kinds of millets represent fifty-two per cent.
Rice, wheat andmillets are the three staples of the country.
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