46 FODDER, ETC. 



cut them down with the sickle when ripe, and to 

 tie them into small bundles of a couple of hand- 

 fuls each. The natives name at least a dozen, and 

 ascribe qualities to each as they consider them more 

 or less nourishing, &c. Huryallee, (Panicum?) is 

 one of the most valuable when cut green, or made 

 into hay. In an ordinary season as much hay may 

 be had for two and a half rupees, as will feed a 

 horse for a month. But even at this cheap rate 

 it is too expensive for the Ryots, who feed their 

 cattle on the sweet stalks of the two common 

 millets joari and bajri ; still I believe they are 

 better suited than grass, particularly the joari, as 

 fodder for oxen. 



There can be little doubt that it is more nou- 

 rishing ; on it the cattle of the Ryot live, and work 

 too, and in nine cases out of ten, never receive any 

 grain; the straw of a great variety of pulse is 

 given occasionally to whet the appetite, and when 

 very hard worked, they receive a little bajri itself 

 and mutt, or mug, or gowar.* Cattle are very fond 

 of these three pulse grains, and the strength and 



* The Dolichos fabaeformis (now Cyamopsis psoraleoides) see Jones' 

 Mahratta Dictionary, and Graham's and Nimmo's Catalogue of Plants 

 of Western India. II. II. S. 



