l6 FODDER IN JNDIA. 



buildings are a blessing to man and beast always, while a 

 few scattered over your plots at about one to the acre will 

 help the grass and be more than welcome both in harvest 

 time and at others when there is work doing. If you have 

 any rights over the trees the wood loppings will provide 

 some fuel and a certain amount of timber for the work- 

 shops ; but remember we are out to grow grass and crops, 

 not timber, and arboriculture must be quite a side issue. 

 Different provinces and districts grow different trees. Avery 

 few are common to all, The following are a few of those 

 most usually found and those most useful to us as grass 

 farmers : — 



Shisham. Khikar or Babul. Nim. Pipul. 



Bamboo. Mango. Ber. Tut. 



One or more of these will grow in any province or district. 

 Don't plant trees too closely for avenues or roadsides, 30' 

 between is near enough unless in arid districts with a low 

 water level, 18' to 21' will do very well where thick shade 

 is wanted for open bullock lines, etc., and one tree or at 

 " most " two per acre on the grass plots. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The names of the various grasses to be found in India, 

 are legion, and whether the mere fact 



Varieties of Grasses. . ,, . ,. , . 



or knowing them all, including their 

 Latin equivalent, is of much value remains a matter of 

 opinion. The writer does not intend to tabulate them here 

 but merely to note on those most useful to our purpose and 

 more generally found, and refer the reader to one or more 

 of the treatises upon grasses mentioned in a later chapter. 

 A few grasses {e.g., Doob) grow more or less, according to 

 climate and rain showers, all the year round, but the great 

 majority appear only in the monsoon period, and with one or 

 two exceptions hardly last for the hay crop, even if they 



