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A dry crop, common article of food in various parts 
of the country. 
Composition in 100 parts :— 
Water - - - 11-.95 
Nitrogenous substanees - 8'64 
Dextrin - - - 3'82 
Sugar - - - 1'46 
Fat - - - 3'90 
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with 
. husks. 
Starch - - -70 
5,908, 5,939. Jowaree. Kattywar. 
5,946-50. Jowaree. Baroda. 
5,982, 5,983, 5,986, 6,003. Jowaree. Sattara. 
6,004. Shaloo. Sattara. 
6,005. Shaloo. Sattara. 
3,006. Shaloo. Kolee Jondhali. Sattara. 
6,00/. Shaloo. Araadee Kolee Jondhali. Sattara. 
6,008. Shaloo. Kalbondee. Sattara. 
6,009. Shaloo. Goolbhendi. Sattara. 
6.010. Shaloo. Dagade Shaloo. Sattara. 
6,011. Shaloo. Gidgab Jondhali. Sattara. 
6,012. Shaloo. Redkee Shaloo. Sattara. 
6,013. Shaloo. Maldandu Jondhali. Sattara, 
6,014. Shaloo. Hoondya Jowaree. Sattara. 
6,015. Shaloo. Sattara. 
6,048. Shaloo. Dharwar. 
6,049. Shaloo. Dharwar. 
6,051. Shaloo. Dharwar. 
6,052. Shaloo. Oolkin. Dharwar. 
6,054, 6,055, 6,056, 6,057. Shaloo. Dharwar. 
5,911. Shaloo. Kattywar. 
6,074, 6,078, 6,087. Jowaree. Aden. 
6,077- Jondhali. Aden. 
(217.) Jowaree. Surat. 
6,118. Jowaree. Ahmednuggar. 
6,144, 6,166. Jowaree. Nassick. 
6,182. Jowaree. Beigaum. 
6,252,6,249. Jondhalay. Mr. V. Fretwell. Khandeish. 
6,274. Jondhalay. Ahmenduggar. 
6,296. Jondhalay. Kutch. 
363. Jondhalay. Tilloo Wango, Boobuc. Sind. 
364. Jondhalay. Dhoolun Wango. Sind. 
796. Dateala Jowaree. Berar. 
797. Neramul Jowaree. Berar. 
798. Adgur Jowaree. Berar. 
799. Goonjal Jowaree. Berar. 
800. Pierannanee. Berar. 
3,721, 3,722. Pieranwanee. H.H. the Maharajah of 
Benares. 
862. Pieranwanee. Indore. 
3,586. Pieranwanee. Oude. 
2,261. Jowaree. India Museum. 
BAJRA OR SPIKED MILLET. 
Penicillaria spicata. 
The spiked millet is as common in Africa as in 
Asia, at a distance bearing some resemblance to our 
indigenous cat’s-tail mace, in the form and size of 
its spikes. Many stems often proeeed from the same 
root and these are from three to six feet in height. 
The fruit Spike is dense, compact, and thieker than a 
man’s thumb, from six to nine inches in length (twice 
as long in Africa). The seeds are obovate and com- 
pressed, so that they are largest upwards, almost in 
shape like a small grape stone, pearl coloured, and 
smooth. Exeept Sorghum, this is the most com- 
monly cultivated grain. Roxburgh says that “ it is 
“ sown about the beginning of the rains, viz., the 
“ end of June, and beginning of July, and is ripe in 
“ September. It is much cultivated over the higher 
“ lands on the coast of Coromandel. The soil it likes 
“ is one that is loose and rieh; in such it yields up- 
“ wards of an hundred fold, the same ground will 
“ yield a second crop of this or some other sort of 
“ dry grain during Oct., Nov., Dec., and Jan.” 
Colonel Sykes says that it affects a reddish light 
gravelly or marly soil, but it is sown at times on 
the black soil. Under favourable circumstances one 
seed will produee eight stalks, each stalk furnished 
with a spike full of seed. Commonly, however, each 
seed produces only one or two good heads. From a 
head of ripe Bajree, growing by accident in the 
month of August in a field of Kodra, I obtained 
2,120 perfect seeds. Supposing, therefore, eight 
heads to each plant, there would be 16,960 seeds, 
and the plant will commonly average 8,000 seeds. 
From a fleld of Bajree, repening of the 27th Sep 
tember, the plants average, four stalks each, each 
stalk with a spike of 2,175 seeds, or a return of 
8,700 for one. One plant had ten stalks and 15 
heads of grain. 
The stalk is almost useless as fodder when dry, 
hut cattle are sometimes fed with it when green. 
The seeds are considered rather heating and are 
used in cold weather mostly as flour. Although in 
Africa a kind of beer is said to be made from the 
malted grain, we have no record of such use being 
made of it in India. 
1,485. Bajra. Dr. G. Bidie. Madras. 
A dry crop, a good deal used as an article of food 
in some inland parts of the country. 
Composition in 100 parts :— 
Water - - - 11'80 
Nitrogenous substanees - 10'13 
Fat - - 4'62 
Starch - - .71-75 
960. Bajra. Nagpur. 
5,910-40. Bajra. Kattywar. 
5,966. Bajra. Baroda. 
6,044. Bajra. Dharwar. 
6,080. Bajra. Aden. 
(216.) Bajra. Surat. 
6,119. Bajra. Ahmednuggar. 
6,142-50-65. Bajra. Nassick. 
8,188. Bajra. Beigaum. 
6,251. Bajra. Mr. V. Fretwell. Khandeish. 
6,303. Bajra. Kutch. 
6,304-5. Bajra. Bhownuggur. 
362. Bajra. Gujjan Wango. Sindh. 
801. Bajra. Berar. 
3,741. Bajra. H.H. the Maharajah of Benares. 
857- Bajra. Indore. 
3,341. Bajra. Amritsur. 
3,596. Bajra. Oude. 
2,239. Bajra. India Museum. 
ITALIAN MILLET. 
Setaria Italica. 
This is considered by the natives one of the most 
delicious of cultivated grains. It is cultivated in 
many parts of India, and delights in a light elevated 
tolerably dry soil. The seed-time for the first crop 
is June-July; and harrest in September. A second 
crop may be had from the same ground between