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was only because the townsman did not know anything about the 
new hay. Steps were taken to have trial lots tested by large 
consumers ; but to move a market requires either the whole-time 
energies of a shrewd business man or some fortuitous accident. I 
had other things to do, and could not act as Trades Commissioner 
for the introduction of Teff-hay on to the Johannesburg market! 
But the accident happened. As far as I can learn the details, they 
were as follows :— 
pay to rail it to market, they fed it. Two years ago I never again 
expected to see Teff reach a high figure, but the unprecedented 
loki 474 of the winter of 1912, following a season in which the 
he average, has raised the 
Since the Union of the four South African Colonies, I have 
distributed seed to the other Provinces of the Union, and am glad to 
find that it is taking hold in the Orange Free State, Natal and the 
Eastern Province. A good deal of seed has been sold by Transvaal 
farmers to Rhodesia, and some to Nyasaland, British East Africa, 
German South-West Africa, the Congo State, and Portuguese 
East ica, 80 there is reason to expect that Teff will, ere long, 
become a staple hay-crop throughout civilized Africa. 
_ Composition —Analyses of Teff-hay made by Herbert Ingle, 
-F.LC., late Chief Chemist of the Transvaal Department of 
