LEAF-FODDER. 535 



leafless twigs and young shoots from oak-coppice are used in 

 years of scarcity for sheep fodder. 



In districts where broad-leaved forests abound, the use of 

 leaf-fodder is unimportant, for where there are extensive forests 

 there is also abundance of grass, and a scarcity of fodder is very 

 exceptional (as in 1893). Leaf- fodder is, on the other hand, of 

 great importance where there are few broad-leaved forests; as, 

 in most Tyrolese valleys, in some districts in Switzerland and 

 on the Eifel, in districts where large flocks of sheep are kept and 

 there is a permanent scarcity of other than leaf-fodder. Leaf- 

 fodder is also regularly used in parts of the Alps, Dalmatia, and 

 some Hungarian districts, &c. [Also in most of the countries 

 bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. — Tk.] 



