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Experience fortifies the view that this grass when young and 

 succulent is a first class fodder for all kinds of stock. 



Horses fed upon hay made from young hay grass develop the 

 condition associated with the feeding of good American Timothy 

 hay. As soon as the grass gets old, hard and wiry its feeding 

 value is very greatly reduced. 



There are large areas of hay-grass lands which are largely 

 wasted owing to the fact that the grass is only really nutritious 

 when young and simple grazing is not adequate to make the best 

 use of the grass. If these grass-lands were mown for hay at a 

 favourable stage of growth an enormous amount of valuable fodder 

 could be obtained from lands at present of very poor quality as 

 regular grazing land. One of the light American horse mowers 

 should save its cost very speedily upon many a dry-weather pen 

 in such a district as St. Andrew if judiciously employed in the 

 production of hay from young hay grass. 



Guinea Grass — {Panicum tnaximwn.) 



The following results are recorded to emphasize two important 

 points connected with the agricultural value of guinea grass, viz : 

 the high feeding value of the coarse guinea grass found in many 

 parts of the island when cut at the right time and secondly the 

 great deterioration arising from the seeding of the grass. Sam- 

 ple No. I represents the wild growth of guinea grass that has 

 sprung up spontaneously in the laboratory grounds as a result of 

 cutting down the brushwood, this grass was cut when the flowering 

 spikes were just being produced ; sample No. 2 represents guinea 

 grass as fed to a dairy herd in St. Andrew when the grass was 

 actually seeding : — 



GUINEA GRASS. 



