118 
Composition of Fresh Grass. Calculated from above. 
: | Albu- 
; Nitro- | Crude seri True en, 
—- Water.| Ash. | gen. | Pro- Lorem Pro- | Fibre. Free | Fat. 
Total. | tein. ^ tein. E 
eem traet. 
AY de s oooh 46°55 3°30 | °484 3°03 *420 | 2:626 | 17°85 | 22°62 | 1°245 
saan ur 
Chloris tartan’ - 70°95 3°78 *731 4°57 "410 | 2'564 8:93 | 11'44 *800 
Panicum ee 81°67 2°66 *488 3°17 *293 | 1'894 5°12 7°10 *261 
on (Cen 
Panicum colonum | 84°81 2°32 "476 3°09 “296 | 1°854 4°26 6:31 *184 
A we grass). 
dropogon cari- | 73°64 2°72 *221 1°43 "141 “850 | 10°37 | 11°58 | °246 
ML (Hay : 
Francis WATTS. 
Government Laboratory, 
ntigua, West Indies 
7th January 1896. 
DXVII.—COTTON IN BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 
Cotton has ng been cultivated in Central Africa. On the Zambesi 
and elsewhere it is now semi.wild. 
The following vórrespoidebà e relates to a sample of the Poma sent 
to Kew by Her Majesty's Commissioner i in British Central Africa : 
Her Maszsty’s COMMISSIONER AND CoNsur-GeNERAL, BRITISH 
CENTRAL Arrica, TO ROYAL GARDENS, KE 
Zomba, British Central Africa, 
Dear THISELTON-DYER, October 19, 1895. 
END you by this post in.a small canvas bag a specimen of the 
half-wild cotton of this country. It is cultivated by the natives in an 
indifferent manner since some 15 years ago, when they ceased weaving 
any cloth vines their own cotton, preferring to buy t the European 
manufactured 
This cotton is Meer to me by a planter in the vicinity vini states that 
he believes it to be of very good quality. Conld you have it 
a, 
BE 
price as to w r r our 
while to cultivate cotton. It grows half wild i a country, but it 
is said that the transport to the coast, which would c a an average 
Believe me, uo 
igned) H. H. JOHNSTON, 
Her Majesty’s Commissioner and Coan aaa 
SECRETARY, MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE to ROYAL 
GARDENS, Kew. - : 
i Chamber of Commerce Manchester, 
Dear Sir, Jan 9, 1 
— I wave obtained an expert opinion apa the sample of Central 
African cotton referred to » your letter of the 6th instant, and have 
— in reporting — 
