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[ TRANSLATION. | 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE GRASSES OF 
ANGOLA. 
The author presents this work as the first of a series of 
studies on the feeding of animals in the Portuguese Colonies, 
which he proposes to make in the laboratories of the Higher 
Institute of Agriculture at Lisbon. 
He begins by defining the local word capim (hay), and 
considers this fodder as the basis for the feeding of cattle in 
Angola. Then he sketches the still rudimentary state of 
zootechnical exploitation in this Province, and maintains 
that it will constitute an incontestable source of public wealth 
if the colonists will give their best attention to it. 
Considering that the first step in any exploitation of this kind 
should aim at the production of good fodder, which constitutes 
the raw material to be transformed by the animal machine, 
he condemns the custom of abandoning the native animals to 
the pasturage of the natural prairies without making any 
attempt up to the present to establish artificial pastures. He 
then studies three samples of hay (capim) from different 
localities in Angola. 
He precedes this study with some general considerations 
on the diversity of the climate and flora. He attempts 
the botanical study of the samples sent, in which he succeeds 
in classifying some plants, and then on the basis of the opinion 
of several authors (in the absence of local flora) he forecasts 
the botanical composition of the natural fodders. 
He then examines the value of the samples in question, 
beginning with a brief macroscopic study, in which he employs 
Dechambre’s method of ‘‘points.’’ After this he describes 
his chemical examination, comparing the quality with that of 
Portuguese and foreign hays. 
DELL’ USO DELL’ ACIDO CLORIDRICO 0 DI ALTRE SOSTANZE 
ACIDE MINERALI E DI SOSTANZE SPECIALI PER LA 
CONSERVAZIONE E BUONA MATURAZIONE DEI FORAG- 
GI IN SILO, NEI CLIMI CALDI. 
Per Professore ITaLo GIGLIOLI. 
[ ABSTRACT. ] 
Si espone la particolare importanza dell’insilamento nei 
paesi caldi, per utilizzare i foraggi e le piante pabulari spon- 
tanee, durante la stagione piovosa e serbarle allo stato succo- 
