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SECTION XVI. 



General Observations on Green-fodder Crops — loould prevent Losses of 

 Cattle in Seasons of Drought — One Acre equivalent to Fourteen Acres of 

 the best Pastures — Indian Corn, or Maize, cultivated in France, and at 

 the Cape of Good Hope, as Cattle Fodder — Its produce at St. Helena, in 

 less than Four Months from the Period of Sowing, was Thirty Tons per 

 Acre. Remarks on the Culture of Kidney Beans— Green-fodder Crops 

 of these recommended. 



1 HE introduction on this island of green crops of fodder, for the 

 sustenance of cattle of all kinds, is a subject I have frequently 

 adverted to in several papers that have been issued from the St. 

 Helena press. I have there shewn the great advantages that 

 would be derived from imitating a practice — which has been 

 long and successfully established in almost all countries in the 

 world — but which, until lately, had never found its way to this 

 island. 



I shall not recapitulate what may be found in those papers — 

 it is indeed unnecessary : for the facts I am now to relate, with- 

 out any reference whatever to my former statements, ought to be 

 sufficient to impress on every unbiassed mind, the importance of 

 green-fodder crops, which I trust every cattle breeder here will 

 duly consider: their introduction upon an enlarged scale would 

 undoubtedly be the very best means of securing his own interest 

 and of promoting the general welfare of the island. 



By the introduction of cattle crops, I have formerly shewn how 

 easily those evils which had frequently occurred, might have been 



