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Rhodes grass with it and finding the lambs too hard on it whilst 

 young, I did not put tliem in again. If the rape had been alone 

 and the harrows had been run over it when wilting it might have 

 revived it as the lambs trod the surface smooth and the moisture 

 was thus more readily lost. 



"Thousand headed kale" is gro\yn for the same purpose as rape 

 and resists the drought better and would probably do better here. 

 Rape is considered the 1)est fattening food for lambs and is very 

 much grown for this purpose in the colonies in finishing fp^ 

 lambs. My object in planting it was to try and to keep the Ho- 

 nolulu market regularl\ supplied with fat lamb. It is also good 

 food for almost any farm animals. From one to seven pounds 

 of seed should be sown to the acre. I think there is a great field 

 here for experiment w^ith crops of this kind such as field" peas, 

 carrots, turnips, Egyptian and Kaffir corn, sov beans, etc., etc. 



I sowed about half an acre of cow^ pumpkins and they strug- 

 gled hard against the drought, but only a small crop was bar 

 vested. Thev are also very good food for any farm animals, and 

 useful as a vermifuge. If crops of these kinds can be growi'i 

 and the plow kept more at work it will serve to minimize th? 

 plagues of internal worms that at times visit the horse and sheep 

 ranches. 



In dividing these grasses and plants into mountain, middle, anu 

 dry country, there can be no hard and fast line. Some will have 

 a range from tlie frost line to the very dry countrv as Paspalam 

 dilatatiun and Rhodes grass, and most of the middle grass will 

 eventually spread to some extent into the dry country and the 

 mountain grasses into the middle lands. 



I think it better to start the dry country plants, except those 

 preferring salty land, on the borders between the middle and the 

 dry country as they \x\\\ then spread on to the dry country. I 

 would also advocate, as is practiced in some parts of Australia, 

 to plow and sow the seed in long narrow fenced strips of land 

 on the boundaries of pastures and at right angles to the prevailing 

 wind's. In this way there will be a chance of the grasses becom- 

 ing established in the adjoining pastures. Sowing seed on the 

 very drv countrv is almost useless unless one has quantities of it. 



The middle land grasses can be sown on the surface fairlv high 

 up on the middle country, but not in the thick pilipili-ula and 

 nianienie. The wet country grasses can also be surface sown and 

 will take w^ell if the other growth is not too thick. 



