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Agriculture, show (14) that Teffthay has as well-balanced an 
albuminoid ration as oat-hay. The following comparison is made 
from the figures supplied in Mr. Ingle’s ae co 
| Lucerne 
oa Teff-hay. Se thay | Boer Manna. hay, 
pare 
A. B. A. B. 
pees vee os nae 8°88) 916 8-00 8°25; 654! 7:97 
Ash is ore 5°D5| 671 4-23 7°78 6°06 8°94 
Protein ane 621; 472) 8°65 500; 490) 15°49 
Soluble e Carbohydrates » | 39°08} 42-71] 44:04 46°24| 38°93| 30°58 
Ether Extract . ob 4°21 1:07 3°87 1:88 1:07 2°36 
Crude fibre wee cow. | SPOT]. 35°63 |. 34-92 30. 85} 42:50} 34°76 
100°00 | 10000} 190:00 | 100-00} 100-00} 100-00 
Albuminoid ratio : 
Conventional ... feeckl ee 696g 4 EO Ll 8b Sa eo 
Suggested sie L:12-6. 1:16°3 [1:145 . 1:158 |1:16°8 |.1:4-4 
The ash included : 
Binew “| e as ee 3°25 4:08 2-01 567 2°44 0°49 
oe edi ves oe 1°28 1°62 aoe = 2°30 3°61 
Lim 0-30 0°27 0-18 0:30 0:21 1°38 
Picechoin pentoxide ide. 0°24 0°28 0°34 0°32 0 09 0°32 
Ratio of lime to 100 of 125 96 53 94 Qt A3Zi 
phosphorus pentoxide. 
The grain of Teff (Red) has been eee by Professor Sir A. H. 
Church (3), whose report is as follow 
ii 100 gle 
15°2 
Water... es pe a A 
Albuminoids one ae aes me 8°2 
Starch, &c. a <e a — 6871 
i wee ae ae; Ses bes 2°8 
Cellulose, &c. ... os we en 2°8 
Ash : oe ere = : 2°9 
100-0 0 
“The ratio between the albuminoids, or flesh formers, and the 
heat-givers, or force producers (calculated as starch) is here 1: 9. 
This ratio is less satisfactory than that of the majority of millets, 
ee, is near that of Panicum miliare” (common or broom-corn millet). 
as raised scores of small Transvaal farmers from poverty to 
comparative comfort, and has been largely instrumental in putting 
the dairy industry of the Witwiterdeant = its feet. The opinion 
= asi expressed by our farmers that “if the Division of Botany 
e Department of Agriculture had done nothing else, the 
Satrodictiae and establishment of Teff as a farm-crop would have 
more than paid South Africa the whole cost of the Division for the 
ten years of its existence.” 
The chief ahaa of Teff as a hay erop lies int its palatability, high 
nutritive shaver ape albuminoid ratio (for a a grass-hay), heavy 
yield, hg h, and drought-resistance, _ My experience with 
Teff in the riayent is that if sown in October ( rovided we have 
fairly acs rains to establish the braird), we can obtain a cutting of 
