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Investigation of the Scientific and Economic Relations of the Sorghum Sugar Industry: Being a Report Made in Response to a Request From the Hon. George B. Loring (1883) / Chapter Skim
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The agricultural characters of sorghum
Pages 20-22

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... Their descendants now exist in a vast number of varieties, which differ so greatly among themselves that neither scientific botanists nor practical cultivators are agreed as to what are true species and what mere varieties which have arisen in cultivation. The cultivated varieties of sorghum have been placed in the genera Holcus, Andropogon, and Sorghum by different botanists, the latter being the name now accepted.
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... Certain varieties of durra, with the grain in a somewhat loose panicle, and which were more especially cultivated in Asia and in Southern Europe, were classed as one species called Sorghum (Holcus or Andropogon) vulgare; the varieties with the grain in a densely contracted panicle, grown more largely in Africa, and known as Guinea-corn, Egyptian durra, Moorish millet, &c., were grouped into another species, called, 8.
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... About thirty years ago the sugar-yielding sorghum was introduced. Filling a certain place on our farms better than any other plant previously tried, it spread in cultivation with a rapidity no other agricultural plant ever did before in this or any other country, and is the only one adapted to a wide region introduced into the United States since colonial times which has become of sufficient importance to be enumerated in the census.
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