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ass. A largo; quantity of fairly good fodder is said, however, to be 
obtained from it. 
This grass appears to be an introduced species; it is spreading 
steadily, and where found is highly valued. Some attempts are being 
made to aid the spread of it by the distribution of seed. It is r eadily 
eaten by stock, and during the terrible drought of 1894 the heavy 
growth of this. grass, which had dried in situ, on the pastures, formed 
the chief fodder for the animals at the Government Stock Farm at 
the Skerretts in ic over it was freely eaten in this condition’ and 
the animals throve upon "Ts 
The fo vine cleus: itu and water were yielded by these grasses 
when weighed immediately after cutting. 
100 parts of fresh grass yielded the following weights of hay :— . 
| Percentage | Percentage 
of Hay. | of Water. 
U 
Andropogon pertusus Mere p - a - 60 40 
Chloris barbata - isla ha 35 65 
j ring tratum (C v per cent. a - - SES 79 
Paniéum colonum (Rice grass) ETE wy eee. TTT 
KARRE. ee a (Hay grass) - - - 30 70 
It is important to remember the very wide differences in: the yig of 
hay when fodder is purchased in a green state. . Probably the small. 
proportion of water in “Sour grass,” Andropogon pertusus, Med. in 
some measure for the esteem in which itis held as a fodder in Barbados 
and eric 
All t escribed in Duthie’s * Fodder Grasses of 
Northern. f India.” Le Sa stat ee are forwarded herewith in. order that. 
there may. be no mistake as to the identity of the grasses analysed. The 
analyses were made on — of grass cut when in in lower, and de seed 
was just forming. 
TABLES OF ANALYSES. 
Composition of Hay. 
Nitro- | Crude | AVU- | True sog 
€— Water.| Ash. en. | Pro- |™inoid) Pro. | Fibre.| Free | Fat, 
spen, i] pom ro" | Nitro- T , $ 
Total. | tein. nay tein. Ex 
ge tract. 
An ndropógon perta- 10-92 | 5°50} -'808| 5°05| °700|. 4°378| 29'75 | ST'71| 2°075 
loris Baaba -| 1r02| 10°82| 2:09 | 19:06 | 1°172| 77398 | 95:53 | 32:69 | '884 
Panicum prostra- | 11'06| 12:92] 2°87 15*40| 1'424| 8°903 | 24°90 | 34'48| 1'940 
—À ) (Cent. per 
X colonum | 15:62 | 12°91 | 2*649 | 17°21 | 1'648 | 107303 | 23:09 | 929'54 | 1:025 
: P adl. 1214| 907| °738| 479| -472| 2'835 | 34 57 | S861| "890 
cosus ( 
grass). 
