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Negro or Guinea Corn. It is a strong grass, growing to a height of from 4 to 8 or even 16 ft.; the leaves are sheathing, solitary, and about 2 in. broad and 2z ft. in length; the panicles are contracted and dense, and the grains, which are enclosed in husks and protected by awns, are See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round, hard, smooth, shining, brownish-red, and some-what larger than See also:

MUSTARD

mustard seeds. The plant is cultivated in various parts of India and other countries of See also:

ASIA

Asia, in the See also:

UNITED

United States, and in the See also:

south of See also:

EUROPE

Europe. Its culms and leaves afford excellent See also:

FODDER

fodder for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle; and the See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, of which the yield in favourable situations is up-wards of a hundredfold, is used for the same purposes as See also:

MAIZE, or INDIAN CORN

maize, See also:

rice, corn and other cereals. Speaking of its cultivation, Eduard Hackel (in his See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on " Grasses " in See also:

Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien) says the culture of Sorghum probably had its origin in See also:

Africa, where a variety. Sorghum vulgare. known as See also:

durra is now cultivated over the entire See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent, and has become the most important cereal; the natives also chew the See also:

STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem, which contains See also:

SUGAR

sugar. In Europe it is raised less for See also:

BREAD

bread than for See also:

MECHANICAL

mechanical purposes; the panicles are made into the so-called rice-brooms and into brushes. In See also:

Germany it is occasionally raised for See also:

green fodder. From the See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit the See also:

KAFFIRS (Arabic Kafir, an unbeliever)

Kaffirs make an alcoholic drink, Tialva, and the negroes one known as Merisa. Allied See also:

SPECIES

species are S. bicolor, much valued in India as a See also:

FORAGE

forage-plant, and S. saccharatum, commonly called sorghum or See also:

CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese sugar-See also:

CANE

cane, which is extensively cultivated in See also:

CHINA

China, See also:

North India and Africa.

The latter species is grown in See also:

AMERICA

America chiefly for the manufacture of See also:

MOLASSES

molasses from its juice, and in See also:

France as a source of See also:

ALCOHOL

alcohol. A full See also:

account of the cultivation and use of the species in India will be found in See also:

Sir G. See also:

WATT, JAMES (1736-1819)

Watt's See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary of the Economic Products of India (1893).

End of Article: SORGHUM

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