IQ2 COFFEE : ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



acquainted with the grass the more he valued it. 

 He had very fine crops which had never been irri- 

 gated, and some of the best results he obtained in 

 fattening stock were obtained with guinea grass. 

 The fodder can be used for all kinds of beasts; it 

 seems to disturb the digestive organs of some 

 animals, but this is only temporary. I have fed 

 cattle and sheep on it exclusively for months, not only 

 without ill effects, but with the most satisfactory 

 results. I have found our guinea-grass field a capital 

 place in which to graze our working cattle during 

 the hot season, and for the ewes with young lambs 

 I could scarcely desire a better pasture. It pro- 

 duces such an abundant flow of milk in the ewes 

 without (what is common in such cases) disturbing 

 the health of either mother or lamb. 



"Prickly Comfrey" is another wonderfully 

 prolific green crop. The Russian variety, on 

 favourable soil, will give as much as 150 tons 

 per acre, and it is much liked by cattle. It 

 requires, however, a good, deep earth, and a 

 rather damp location. 



With regard to yellow cholum (sorghum vulgare), 

 this valuable fodder crop is yet but little appreciated 

 by those who might benefit most largely by cultivat- 

 ing it. Most of the live stock on the Sydapet farms 

 are fed on cholum fodder throughout a greater part 

 of the year. It is chiefly a lowland cultivation, 

 but as it produces, under favourable circumstances, 

 as much as nineteen tons per acre, it is worth a trial 



