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Africa, but is inquired for from overeea. We also get top price 

 for our slaughter stock. Teff is going to be our salvation, for we 

 maintain that Tefi-hay (not TeH-straw), together with maize silage, 

 will keep any and all stock in tip-top condition, without any otner 

 food but what they can get off the veld. 



" As you know, we can grow exceptionally fine oat-hay in these 

 parts. Well, wioh us Tefi has entirely superseded oat-hay. Uur 

 stabled horses will compare favourably with any carriage horses of 

 the towns, for condition, and do real hard work, and they get 

 nothing but Teff-hay and a few crushed meahes, morning and 

 evening. 



" We are putting in 75 to 100 acres under Teff this year, to feed 

 our own stock." 



Mr. Gillespie writes : " My stable feed for years has been rarely 

 anything but Teff, and I believe the condition of my horses leaves 

 nothing to be desired. All whom I have come in contact with, and 

 who have been users of Teff-hay, agree that it is first-rate. I have 

 this morning received from a buyer of Teff seed the following infor- 

 mation as to the value of Teff-hay as a stock feed : ' This fodder 

 grass pleases me more than ever. It is so easy to feed, and no 

 waste. My cattle, over 300 head, are looking splendid just now, 

 after the winter, and I attribute this mainly to Teff-hay, of which 

 I had 80 to 90 tons. Horses will keep in splendid condition all 

 winter, on nothing but Teff.' " 



Mr. H. J. Lourens, Uitval, Klerksdorp, writes : — " This crop can 

 be reaped twice if sown in the beginning of January. If intended 

 for cattle fodder, it must be cut just when seeding. It does well, 

 too, as horse-forage, as I kept two horses, during the winter, simply 

 on Teff grass." 



" This crop should take the place of the usual manna crop in 

 this district, as it gives a much larger yipld and the stock prefer 

 it to manna. — (E. H. Biron, Klipfontein, Middelburg, Transvaal.) 



" Yesterday I had a visit from a gentleman who was driving 

 one of the most spirited mares I have s°en for some years. He 

 assured me she had lived on vofhinn hut Tef grass for the last four- 

 teen months ; he had not given her forage, lucerne, oats or mealies. 

 The mare was in ' show ' condition." — (/. Wemtworfh Sykes.) 



The writer's own horses are used six days in the week, and 

 usually go to Vereeniging Station, nine miles away, three times a 

 week, with ten mile journeys on alternate days. They have no 

 other feed than Teff hay during the winter, yet they keep fat and 

 in splendid working condition. 



Mr. Burnett Wilson, of Bedworth, Viljoen's Drift, O.F.S., 

 informs me that his horses refuse good oat-forage in favour of Teff t 



In a second letter (24) Mr. W. M. Struben states that 

 " Teff is our salvation. We do not grow to sell, either hay or seed, 

 but purely for our own requirements. We have given up oats and 

 millets entirely, as hay crops, as we find we can grow a Teff crop 

 more cheaply and get a heavier yield per acre. We also find it is 

 a better feed for all stock, when properly handled and cured." 



ACRE YIELD OF HAY. 



In India the first recorded crop gave only 1 to 1-| tons per 

 acre. (8.) 



