Coarse grains such as corn, sorghum, barley, oats, rye, and millet, mostly go into animal feed which by the way is seen by many as a wasteful and inefficient use of fertile land.
Jolting and jerking from side to side, the reaping machine cut the grain in such irregular fashion that Farmer Ruff ordered Cyrus Hall McCormick to stop the horses and cease ruining his field of wheat.
After Lord Hui took power in Jin, the millet and barley did not ripen properly in successive harvests, and so in the fifth year of his rule there was a terrible famine.
If we only behold, " says he, " the actions of the husbandman in the seed time, when he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman.