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“ Composition of Sugar Cane Fodder (Saccharum officinarum) and 
invamunga M’ramba munga or Napier’s fodder 
Setaria sp. or Pennisetum ig ? B crusot on the Botanical 
Experiment Station, Salisbury 
Particulars of Planting, &e. 
Sample for Analysis. 
Length of | Length of 
Time Planted. | Collected. Stalk Leaf 
in Feet. | in Feet. 
Sugar cane Jan., 1910...) July, 1911... 2 4 
Zinyamunga March, 1910...) ,, ’ 8 2 
The fodder had not been cut since planting. 
Analysis. 
Sugar Cane Zinyamunga 
Fodder. Fodder. 
Per cent. Per cent. 
Water . “ 73°63 61°81 
Ether extra ct . “ 0° 
Protein Grats X6 625) owe “ ie 44 2:92 
ace a i cas re 17°73 17°29 
Re e én ie ee 5‘32 14:77 
. . . 1:83 2 
“The amount of juice expressed from Piped stalks by passage 
between the steel rollers of an ordinary flattening mill used for rolling 
out metals was in each case as follows :— 
Sugar Cane Zinyamunga 
ets: Stalks. Stalks. 
Per cent. Per cent. 
Juice expressed... ei ese ve 56°6 213 
Sf 
fortunately supplemented by Dr. F’. Zeller,* of Victo 
who considers the rotting grass as well as its ash a . eeey vaashis 
manure ; and this may actually be the meaning of the statement of 
* Tropenpfl., vol. xv. (1911), p. 357. 
