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growing these crops for rearing live-stock in a systematic 

 manner. 



1.062. Reana Luxuriant or Euchlgena Luxurians (buffalo- 

 grass) is a huge kind of grass eagerly eaten by cattle of all 

 kinds. It grows taller than sorghum and it tillers much 

 better, but it must be grown on rich soil, and there must be 

 facility for irrigation if it is to be successfully cultivated 

 all the year round. Nine or ten months after sowing, the 

 plants come to maturity and run to seed. It should be cut as 

 fodder before seeding /.., when it is still tender. Grown 

 on rich soil and constantly irrigated each clump will send out 

 80 to go shoots [o to 12 cubits high, capable of being cut 7 

 to 8 times in the year, each cutting yielding from 50 to 60 

 maunds of green food per acre. It grows most luxuriantly 

 at the Sibpur Farm, at least, as well as Juar, and cattle 

 eat the stalks of Reana with greater, relish than they do of 

 juar. Sown in May, one heavy crop of fodder can be had in 



September witout irrigation. 



1.063. Besides sorghum and reana, may be mentioned 

 another rank-growing annual grass, which is actually grown 

 along with aman paddy in some districts of Bengal, where 

 it is known as Erd-kati (Ischaemum rugosum, i.e. No. 22 of 

 the list given in p. 197). The introduction of Paspalum dila- 

 tatum is also being urged by the Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Society of India. 



1.064. Of rank-growing grasses, which are either peren- 

 nial, or practically perennial, i.e., which once grown occupy 

 the soil always as a weed, may be mentioned the following 

 which are liked by cattle: Guinea grass (Panicum Jument- 

 orum), Para grass or Lata grass (Panicum muticum) and 

 sorghum halipense. Laid grass grows equally well on dry 

 land and in shallow water. 



1.065. Guinea grass. Its special excellence consists in its 

 being perennial. The stumps can be removed with the roots and 



planted elsewhere, and the plantation thus indefinitely extend- 



