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but cut well as a fodder. It is at present popular in Australia 

 as a drought resisting pasture grass and stands stocking witli 

 care. 



Sporobohis iiidiciis : Smut or Rat-tail grass, also thrives on the 

 same class of country and stands more drought than the other. 

 In my early days in New Zealand I remember this grass having 

 full possession of large tracts of second class land. It was in.- 

 proved by annual burning. The chief objection to it was it.^ 

 toughness, wdiich was hard on the animals' teeth. On my recent 

 visit I found it had largely died out, giving place to the Dan- 

 thonias. and other grasses. Mr. Jared Smith informs me that 

 it is a native of tliese Islands. 



Broimts inennis: Smooth or Hungarian brome, which has be?n 

 confounded to some extent here with Rescue grass, I had little 

 success with. 



Tricholaena rosea: Natal red-top, is a useful grass growing 

 luxuriantly and seeding heavily in the early part and at the end 

 of the wet season. It stands drought fairly well, but heavy stock- 

 ing is hard on it. 



Stenotaplinim amcricanum: Buffalo grass, has been in th.e 

 country for a long time, and has not been given the attention it 

 deserves. I have lately seen some fine fields of it on Mr. G. N. 

 Wilcox's place at Lihue, Kauai. It was planted at intervals on 

 plowed land' and quickly covered the surface, and is greedily 

 eaten by the stock. I have seen patches of it on Molokai that 

 were gradually crowding out the thicket manienie. This grass is 

 a favorite in the warm parts of Australia and resists drought 

 fairly well. 



Opuiifia Tuna. When Luther Burbank accomplishes the full 

 evolution of his spineless cactus, or the Hawaiian ranchers work 

 up the one they have here, there wnll be another valuable stock 

 food for the dry season. Paddocks of this could be grown in 

 the vicinity of the kiawe forest, and the fattening stock changcl 

 from one to another. 



GRASSES AND FODDERS FOR IRRIGATION PURPOSES. 



Alfalfa. I perhaps need hardly say that this fodder has dono 

 phenomenally well under irrigation on rich land. Mr. D. P. R. 

 Isenberg, at Waialae, has raised a great many crops a year from 



