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seed ANS and proves that in hill traets teff may yet prove a prolific 
food g 
“ Ts mé made from the teff was of exceptional good quality and 
was greedily eaten by the garden bullocks. When it was offered to 
them they were ae fed upon jowar or sorghum stalks, and, as is well 
known, these markably sweet, and cattle, when fed upon them, 
generally refuse vihet kinds of dry food until they find that sorghum is 
not forthcoming. Our garden cattle, however, seemed to prefer the teff 
hay to the sorghum, as they would not touch the latter until they had 
devoured the whole of the toft placed before then 
“ The experience gained herein the "ian of teff during the past 
year may therefore be summed up as 
* When sown in the dry season it ii yield a light erop of grain, and 
when sown in the rains it yields little or no in, but produces 
abundance of green fodder which may be arl into viti palatable ET 
where the latter is preferred. In my opinion, teff is d 
the rye grass of India, and is well wo rthy o of more pa trial od 
some of the Government fodder reserves.’ 
s, Miers (Reana luxurians, Durieu). **'Teosinte." 
An annual grass of large size from Guatemala allied to the maize. 
first published illustration of the plant was given in the Botanical 
Magazine, tab. 6,414. It attracted a good deal of attention about 20 
years ago as a fodder plant (see Kew aapon T 1879 and 1880). 
Seeds of it were ‘widely distributed from Kew to the East and aed 
Indies, Australia, and t ropical Africa. It isa tall, densely-tufted 
sometimes reaching 15 feet in height, ie stems are as thick as the 
thumb at the base, and the leaves 3 to 4 feet long ji 
broad. Dr. Schomburgk in 1880 wrote from the Adelaide Botanic 
Garden, S. Australia : * I have now cultivated ,l'eosinte for ihree years, 
and it is one of the most prolific fodder plants 
Mr. W. R. Robertson, -— Micgbritr to the Government of 
Madras, wrote as follows in July 1883 :—“ A small plot was sown with 
this crop; the out-turn of green fodder was at the rate of 38,400 Ib. per 
acre, a very large out-turn; but, the cost of production was great, for 
it was necessary to irrigate e the land nearly every other day, from — 
until harvest. Reana is undoubtedly a very heavy producer, crops 
grown on the farm have given enormous yields, but further experience 
confirms the opinions expressed regarding the crop in the last report: 
*On good soils, under liberal treatment, when it can obtain plenty 
of rain or irrigation water, the crop grows most rapidly and luxuriantly ; 
but it cannot withstand a drought. Indeed the experiments made 
showed that a drought, which scarcely affected the Sorghum crops, was 
sufficient to check the growth of the /eana to such an extent as to 
render it useless to keep the erop standing longer. As a fodder 
"ris ilowng account of the grass was given in the Report of the 
Botanic Garden at Bangalore for the year 1888-9, p. 13 :——“ Teosinte or 
