Curt.—On Grasses and Fodder Plants, 405 
grow meat as well as grain, must largely increase the number of his 
fodder plants; not only must he grow several kinds of Sorghums, Maizes, 
Millets, Holcus, Andropogons, Panicums, and other such plants in the hot 
weather of summer, and feed his live stock therefrom, but he must bury 
them in silos, as the French farmers do, for feed in the winter, and at that 
season he will have the advantage over other parts of the world of growing 
feed in the winter itself, by planting those things that will grow favourably 
in the late autumn, the winter itself, and the very early spring. The Sugar 
Beet, the Prickly Comfrey, Cabbages, Turnips, Swedes, Kohl Rabi, various 
kinds of Vetches, winter Oats, Cape Barley, Prairie Grass, and other 
Brome grasses, with some of the best of the indigenous grasses of New 
Zealand added thereto, supplemented by Italian Rye, Devon evergreen Rye, 
several Poas, Anthovanthums, and many other grasses. While the several 
kinds of Achillea, Pentria virgata, the various salt bushes, Apiums, Carrots, 
Menthas, Thymes, and Taraxacum will act as condiment and medicinal 
herbs to the sheep and cattle depastured on the places where they grow. 
And here we must remember the writings and experiences of persons in 
England and countries with as severe a climate, will not serve us, as tho 
conditions of our colony and climate are altogether different. The orange, 
the Eugenia, the guava, and the olive, which cannot bear the winter climate 
of the places round Great Britain, will here grow in the open air, and stand 
our winter frost, as they have done for some years in my experimental 
ground, is a proof of our milder climate. We must therefore experiment 
for ourselves, and thus build up a system of agriculture and grazing suit- 
able for the peculiarities of this colony. But without further dwelling upon 
the difference of climate in this country, and the necessity of a different 
procedure for farmers and graziers to that adopted in Great Britain, we 
will now consider a few more grasses and fodders that might be grown in 
our fields and farms with great advantage. 
Agrostis solandri.—This grass is a native of Eastern Australia, is there 
spoken of very highly as of a nutritious quality, it grows there a quantity of 
herbage during the winter season, and my experience of it in my test 
cultivation was, that it was not only good as a winter grass during the cold 
weather in New Zealand, but that from the greater moisture here, it grows 
further into the summer season as well. It may, therefore, be described as 
a very good permanent pasture grass for autumn, winter, and spring 
growth, and thus is a valuable addition to our permanent mixed pasture 
gasses. There are several varieties which I received from Australia, some 
much better than others. 
Agrostis stolonifera.—A grass found indigenous in Great Britain, which 
Sinclair, and other writers on grasses, brought into prominent notice as a 
