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Instead of allowing the Tagasaste to grow into a tree, it must be cut 

 two or three times per year to a height not exceeding a yard from the ground, 

 in order that its tender branches may be more abundant. As with many 

 other forages, animals must become accustomed to it, but once the taste 

 has been acquired they continue very fond of it. Chopped and mixed with 

 dried straw it is a perfect food comparable with lucerne. Tagasaste grows in 

 mountainous and stony soils from which the plough is precluded, and resists 

 drought admirably, enriching the soil by its roots which fix atmospheric 

 nitrogen. 



In the opinion of the writer it is highly desirable that these plants 

 should be more extensively grown as forage in the Mediterranean basin, 

 particularly in regions where the rainfall is scattered over wide intervals 

 or where the summer is very dry, and consequently livestock breeding is 

 very difficult. 



984 - Comparative Experiments on the Growth of some Varieties of Carrot at the 

 Scientific Agricultural Station of Flahult, Sweden. — Vox Feilitzen hjalmar, in 



Srcnska Mossknlturtdrcmn'-cn Tidskriit, Year XXX, Xo. 2, pp. 128-129. Jonkoping, 1916- 



Experiments in sandy soils with the following varieties, which were 

 lifted from the loth to the 13th October. 



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Dry 

 matter 



I lbs 

 % I per 



Relative yield 



Roots 



Dry matter per acre 



II 



acre j 1914 1913 1912 1911L1910 1914 1913 19121191111910 



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Gul jatte (Champion) 35 060 44.8, .6094! 87.6I 



11 » (Weibull) 33901' 44.81 .6864, 93,9' 



Extra hvit jatte » 32920 43.2 .7106121.9 



Supra hvit jatte n 32385 43.2 .6666I123.5 



Rod mellaumorot. . 26 765 1 44.8! .4818! 77.7 



11.75 4 124 



12.18 

 11.25 

 ri.68 

 13-05 



4124 

 3704 



3778 

 3484 



I 

 100 100 



96] 98 



94 104 



92 , 100 



76 , 94 I 80 



100 1 100 I 100 i 100 100 100 100 



I I 



90 82 100 , 102 107 88 96 



92 j 90 j 116 j 96 — 96 



96 I 92 j loi 85 87 107 



— 85 I lOI 



91 ; 92 ! — 



Gul jatte (yellow giant) in IQ14 yielded the best results, both as regards 

 the total weight and the quantity of dry matter ; good results were likewise 

 obtained with the two varieties of hvit jatte (white giant). 



All the varieties kept very well under storage. The loss of dry matter 

 from the autumn to the middle of IVIarch ranges from ^/g to ^j-, and the per- 

 centage of roots spoiling is always very low. 



985 - Gum-yielding Plants of Brazil. — Mont.\ndon IIeitor. in Chacaras c Quintttcs, Vllth 

 Year, Vol. XIII, Xo. 6, pp. 417-421. San I'anlo, June 15, 191ft. 



Brazil possesses various indigenous plants which can supply a sub- 

 stitute for gum arabic, obtained, by incision, from several species of Acacia. 

 Such are: i) the different species known as " angico " ; " angico " proper 

 is Enterolobium ellipticum {Pithecolobium gummijerum) , occurring very widely 



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