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Bahama grass. > In dry soil impregnated with salt there’ are several 
grasses known in India. affording a considerable amount’ of forage. A 
variety of Sporobolus:arabicus, Boiss Ge pallidus, Duth.) known as 
alusra, is mentioned by Duthie as constituting the greater part of the 
grass vegetation of the ctisar tracks in the north-western provinces, and is 
always a sure ‘indication lof the presence of reh salts. Other grasses 
mentioned as more or less characteristic of saline soils are Aristida 
pressa, Retz. (more sandy parts): rs er cms Pers. (on less 
infected parts).; Chloris barbata, Sw. (more y parts); Tetropogon 
villosus, ulti j "d nins ann fuse Beauv, “in moister parts). 
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In dry regions nof ‘suitable for permanent pastures the Abyeitisn 
Teff (Eragrostis aby yee might be grown during the occasional 
rains and made into hay. This grass will produce a heavy crop of hay 
season, green oats are also used, as in St. ena, for fodder purposes. 
The maize (Zea* Mays) is often given as a wen fodder, or dried and 
mixed with other green fodder. On sugar estates in the West Indies 
and elsewhere “ cane tops ” are largely used during crop time as fodder 
for working cattle, mules, &c. € tops are cut small, and sometimes 
mixed with molasses? "They are r regarded as most nourishing. In 
Mysore Sorghum ing itis well is^ tegarded ded as an excellent fodder, and 
if cut before ‘seeding it is well suited for cattle, specially milch cows— 
“ their milk being en ien iets Dé ree by its use in small 
ies" “Th ex es Agrieultural Department 
that * the valüe afo . ng stóck cannot be surpassed by 
another crop, as a piae shunt of nutritious fodder can be obtained 
from it in a shorter time, within a given space, and more cheaply.” 
The common sorghum. nubes "— vulgare): the Juar of India, is largely 
used as fodder T, green, o It is often specially grown as.a fodder 
crop, in which case.it is i XA. and more thickly than when 
cultivated for the grain. 
A very valuable fodder grass belonging to this group is the Leosinte 
irae luxurians). T is yie elds 3 very large crops in. gooc ich and 
as one of. the most prolife. of a nnual EM our 
cuttings can be pa four months. 
saia these ann pq as also many vonrse-growing perennial 
E green 
in ation. d^ South Africa silos, ME. merely..of pits: dug, in. the 
ground, have ny found, very useful. in preserving fodder that would 
otherwise „be , ak untib the dry season,.o‘The cost;of making silos is 
'omp ling, but it should he borne in mind that fodder pre- 
oot Aaa by lami is on, the other. hand,.offer a. very ready -and 
convenient means. preserving. fodder, during wet seasons, when itis 
— to make | it into hay. 
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Voelcker* records an instance of the greatest care in grass g growiug in 
India, : a. Nadiad, in Gujarat (Bombay); where the cultivators do not use 
ES Report on the improvement of Indian Agriculture, London, 1893. 
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