lo Oct., 1908.] 



A Nezv Fodder Plant. 



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A XEW FODDER PLANT. 

 The " Chou Moeliier." 



/. m. B. Connor, Dairy Supervisor. 



A valuable summer and winter fodder plant suitable for stock of all 

 kinds is shown in the accompanying photograph. It belongs to the Kale 

 family of plants, and is called " Chou Moeliier." It grows 4 to 5 feet 

 high, yielding a heavy wealth of succulent foliage; the stalks are solid', 

 and fleshy, and liave not the woody or fibrous texture of the ordinar\' 

 cabbage. The leaves can be stripped off, about fi\e times during the season, 

 and the whole plant can be chaffed and fed to the animals with absolutely 

 no waste. 



THE "chou MOELLIER." 



A small crop of this new fodder plant grtnvn by me proves it to be a 

 rapid and vigorous grower, highly nutritious and eagerly sought after bv 

 stock. It can be sown with every confidence after the first autumn rains 

 to the end of October, and is lx>th frost and drought resistant, as the crop 

 under review has demonstrated. Without manure or artificial moisture of 

 any kind since planting, it has kept growing vigorously the whole time, 

 and has been stripped of its leaves three times. It is most important to 



