ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 105.] SEPTEMBER. [1895. 
CCCCLXXIV.—TROPICAL FODDER GRASSES— 
(continued). 
An account x tropical fodder grasses was given in the Kew Bulletin, 
1894, pp. 373-387. The information contained in it has been repro- 
duced in many colonies, ane onrem weh a long-felt want. In 
d tiv E the Copic parts of the 
Old World, but now quite a sey in "the West Indies. The history 
of its introduction is not known. In Duthie’s Fodder Grasses of 
Northern India it is thus described :— 
“ A pertusus, Willd. Perennial. Stems creeping at the base, erect 
above, bearded at the nodes, is grass, which is met with all over the 
plains of Northern India, is universally esteemed as a good fodder grass, 
both for grazing and stacking. In Australia also it is highly valued, 
being regarded as one of the best grasses to stand long droughts, while 
it will bear any amount of oe It is useful also as a winter grass 
if the weather is not too sev 
In Watt’s Dictionary of di ae Products of India, Vol. I., 
p. 249, Dr. Stewart is quoted as follows 
“Tt is considered sp age fodder for Sais &c., and for horses 
when green.” While Mr. Coldstream, of Hissar, adds :—‘ 
stacking, will remain for 12 or 13 ee ; much stacked at du Hissar 
farm. Is especially grazed by buffaloe: 
Dr. Voelcker in Zmprovement ig Indian Agriculture (1893), p. 173, 
speaks of the same grass as follow 
* Unless where distant forests are concerned, or where ‘ reserves’ are 
sufficiently large to permit of grazing, I am in favour of grass being cut 
and removed rather than of its being fed off by stock. At rukh Jelleke 
(near Changa Manga) the people pay 1 rupee for the privilege of cutting 
and removing one head- load of grass each day during one month. At 
the Etawah ‘reserve’ the grass is cut by a contractor, and is sold on 
the spot for 1 anna per head-load of about 100 Ibs. ; this is sold at 2 
U sees. 1875,—9/95, Wt, 308, A 
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