. Bulletin. Agriculture. AGRICULTURAL HISTORY AND DISTRIBUTION OF SORGHUM. 31 Mm /\;., ,_/,- Tav III A white durra is found in occasional cultivation in Europe. It is the form prevalent in northern Africa rather than that of Arabia and Syria, and has come largely from Algeria by way of France (fig. C>, o). South America. No sorghum varieties are indigenous to the New World. Andro- fogon hdlcpensis itself is an introduction, though now found abun- dantly in tropical and subtropical America. In South America broom corn is quite widely but not extensively grown. Amber sor- g h u m from the Uni
. Bulletin. Agriculture. AGRICULTURAL HISTORY AND DISTRIBUTION OF SORGHUM. 31 Mm /\;., ,_/,- Tav III A white durra is found in occasional cultivation in Europe. It is the form prevalent in northern Africa rather than that of Arabia and Syria, and has come largely from Algeria by way of France (fig. C>, o). South America. No sorghum varieties are indigenous to the New World. Andro- fogon hdlcpensis itself is an introduction, though now found abun- dantly in tropical and subtropical America. In South America broom corn is quite widely but not extensively grown. Amber sor- g h u m from the United States is sparingly intro- duced. No other varieties are found, except occasionally u n de r trial at ex- periment stations. «<--. West Indies and Cen- tral America. Throughout the West Indies and sparingly on the east coast of Central America a variety is found quite similar to blackhull kafir in the characters of the head. In its vig- orous stooling and abundant leaves it still more closely re- sembles other Afri- can varieties. It was introduced long ago from the Guinea coast of Africa with the slaves, whose food it had been in their native home. Sloane records it as widely cultivated in Jamaica in 1T07. In the Eng- lish islands it was, and still is, known as " Guinea corn," in the French islands as " petit millet," and in Honduras as "maysillo,, (probably "little corn "). It is quite generally cultivated for human food for 175 Kit- Fig. l'lant and head of IIolcus cernuus, after Arduino, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington : G. P. O.
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