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‘gi very precise information, but I understand that the seed 
was treated exactly like the ordinary rainy weather crops. e tells me 
he has, saved some three or four seers of seed, and. thatthe hill 
people have taken a fancy to the crop. The best thing he ‘can do is 
to keep the. seed and sow next season. He. has sent me a bundle of 
plants, which. I im forward to you "When a favourable opportunity 
occurs. The straw or grass is:4 feet or 44 feet i in length, and smells 
sweet. As only NS 2 ounces of the seed was supplied to Mr, 
Stevens, the results obtained appear very satisfactory. for the first 
season, and if the crop is found suitable there should be no difficulty in 
establishing it next season 
A very fall account of” teff is given by Mr. J. F. Duthie, F.L. S. in 
the Report of the Saharunpur Gardens for the year 1888, pp. 11-12. 
The f — extraets are of interest :— 
** Seeds of this grass were ectit to us last year by the Directór of the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, with the remark that it was an Abyssinian food- 
— which — prove useful for India. I-have a bad opinion of it 
food-grain, but think better of it as a fodder, and have therefore 
ciunt it under the head of * fodder plants.” 
“ Teff consists of two varieties, one with white seeds and the other with 
during the dry season and the red during the rains. We the two 
kinds here during both: ——ÀÀ and found, as — hem the white 
answered best ad the dry season and the red for the 
were made o of the two kinds—the freti in March, = 
white variety gave an out-turn be ane rate of 660 foipe 
h hie i ia 
acre ; sown o », only in an 
out urn of 17 Ibs. per were. “The ‘crop was eut in the beginning of 
Mj: but sprang up again into a second Logon and yielded a cutti 
ien fodder early in the rains. The note made regarding the weight 
of this cutting has, unfortunately, "been Mislaid, and I am therefore 
unable to give its approximate weight per acre. 
“The April sowing of the white variety produced no grain, and the 
sowing of the red variety made at the same time only Mimi: 11 lbs. 
of grain per acre. Both kinds, a gave a good crop of fodder in 
the middle of July, the. red variety producing 11,022 and the white 
7,496 lbs. per acre. The. cutting was in a half-dried> state when 
weighed, or the figures would have amounted to a greater total. 
resulted iu-an out-turn of 82 ibs. per aere. ^ These out-turns may be 
looked upon as failures, and: — prove that teff is of no great 
account for cultivation on the plains as a food grainy A cutting was 
made across a section of the two plots of this July sowing in the middle 
of August,:and weighed collectively in its state, and as a result 
gave an out-turn of 16,000 Ibs. of green fodder per acre. The out- 
turns of 3,116 and 2,676 Ibs. noted im the statement for part of this 
pien mean the out-turn of dried hay,às'the fodder was weighed in 
the beginning of October, and was then crisp and dry. A rainy season 
sowing of teff may, therefore, ^i looked upon as capable of orem 
16,000 Ibs: ins — fodder and from 2,000 to 3,000 Ibs. of dried ha 
r acre. 
“A sowing of 4 Ib. of each kind was made at Arnigadh in the 
Minim the rains, and resulted in a collective out-turn of 40 Ths. of 
i8-was a ‘remarkably: good'yield-for-the small quantity of 
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