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In the Journal of the .Agri.- Hort. meis of e 1894, P. w itis 
stated :—'* A. very good crop was raised this season. ~ After stalks 
three g 
-— E to T "bs. of seed were suflicient to sow an acre. ihe fodder 
eatly.relished. by. cattle." 
E Lagos, on the West Co ast of Afsies, Mr. Millen has rai i 
introduced “ Teosinte” as a fodder plant and in June 1894: wrote: 
“ I have planted a-quantity of plants of Euehlena luxurians ; itis the 
only fodder pe of those ideertacts which: pagent: to: be ‘growing 
with good re 
“At sont in the Report for 1893 just NETS 'Téosinte is 
mentioned as having suddenly grown into demand as an annual. oe 
grass, and seed has been harvested to'meet all possible demands. 
Leersia rare a Sw, **Rice-grass." A widely distributed peren- 
panteled spik e s grass is regularly 
cultivated, 1 under the Fan of Zacate, for the urpose of supplying food 
for domestic animals. It is treated like rice, apo transplanted to wet 
and previously ploughed meadows. Bailey found it to be one of the 
o 
In Singapore it is idibus gathered in waste places as a green fodder 
for cattle and hor 
Colonum, /.—An annual grass widely distributed through- 
countries, It prefers a rich soil, and is often found as a 
edd ope airan: In some parts of India it is cultivated for its 
The is much used in the Madras Presidency and in 
bis as edie fodder Duthie gives the. PANES Inf, account of this 
grass (Fodder. Grasses of Northern. India, p. 5):— 
“Tt is generally considered to be oné of the best kinds of fodder 
grass. Iti is abundant all over the plains, and ascends t some few 
thousand feet on the Himalaya. It is greedily eaten by all kinds of 
cattle both.before and after it has flowered, the abundant crop of grain 
yielded by it adding materially to its nutritive value. It prend o to 
Australia, where, it is reported, its very succulent stems grow fro 
2 to 8 feet in height.’ 
Panicum maxim Jacq. (P. jumentorum, Pers.).— “ Guinea 
grass.” "Native of tropical Africa. Widely cultivated in most countries. 
In Brazil it is known * Capim de Colonia." ' "This grass was acci- 
dentally introduced to Jinsei from the Coast of Guinea as bird food 
about 1740, In 1794 Bryan Edwards wrote: “ Most of the grazing 
-— breeding pens were originally created and are still supported by 
ans. of thia. Anxsluable, herbage, bs pnis aps the settle pens t .of the 
guinea grass, It was descri d as “ growing on ie from sea-leve 
to ers d 5,000 feet, and when once established, except for an occasio 
