difficulty in disposing of the crop in large towns, say, at Re.i 

 per maund. The fodder is specially valued for race horses. 

 If plants are not cut, they run to seed after a year, z>., at the 

 next cold season, and the plants wither away afterwards. 

 Plants reserved for seed should not be cut but left untouched 

 rn a corner of a field. These should not be irrigated so often 

 as the plants used for fodder. Plants required for seed should 

 not be more than three years old. Any time within the first 

 3 years, any of the plants can be set apart for seeding. The 

 seed is usually sold at Rs. 3 per seer, but as the crop is 

 rarely grown in this country there is no market for any con- 

 siderable quantity of the seed. A plant which is allowed to 

 seed, whether it be in the first year, or afterwards, dies im- 

 mediately afterwards. 



r,o68. Lucerne in flower has the following average com- 

 position : 



Water... ... ... ... 74 



Albuminoids ... ... ... 4-5 



Crude fibre ... ... ... 9*5 



Carbohydrates ... ... ... 9-4 



Ash ... ... ... ... 2 



Albuminoid ratio ... ... ... 1:2 



1.069. Khari sugar-cane cut up small is an excellent 

 fodder for cattle. The cactus of the Opuntia (Phani- 

 manasd) class divested of thorns and given chopped up to 

 cattle, and the leaves and tops of cassava, are also eaten by 

 cattle. 



1.070. Of annual and rank-growing leguminous fodder 

 crops, Bar bati or cow-pea (vigna catiang) and Arharia Sim 

 (Cyamopsis Psoroiloides), called kurti in Oudh, occupy the 

 first place. Ground-nuts should be grown as a fodder crop 

 on clay soils as it grows in such soils, like a weed, always, 

 after it is once sown, and it is thus practically a perennial 

 leguminous crop. 



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