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Dr. Perez has made fermented hay after the German style (see sample 
sent). 
Fermentation produces a sweet principle which i it particularly 
palatable to horses and ruminants, so that during the rainy or w 
season, in which there are no other plants for food, the Тирмен should. 
be stored as hay, the more so, as it can be cut several times uring the 
year, and that during the summer itis perhaps more luxuriant "than 
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Sheep taken from the pastures to Santa Cruz awaiting shipment, and 
there submitted exclusively to Tagasaste hay as food, gained in weight; 
the quantity of hay allotted to each was 2 Ibs. 
Horses т SIME шы well with it alone; they also take it mixed with 
chaffed str 
Its КУЖУН deserves of every attention being paid to it, and once 
farmers in Teneriffe and the other islands where they know not what 
to cultivate at present with profit 
erez has sent some seeds to Kew and to Paris. It could grow 
well at the Cape of Good Hope, and at Algiers, and in other countries 
whose climate resembles that of the Canaries. 
t value is Tenian M the fact that it requires no irrigation, 
that it can grow in comparative barren land up to a height of about 
4,000 feet, and nt all ein ts branches can be cut off three times 
during the year, resisting perfectly well a long dry summer. It lives a 
great many years and produces from the second or third. 
11888. Dr. Эсномвовак reports from ADELAIDE :— 
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e Tagasaste has found a most suitable and — climate in 
South Australia, flourishing alike in wet and dry seasons. I have fre- 
quently called attention to the value of this ‘dead in my reports of 
- previous years, and данак. that time have distributed seeds for cultiva- 
tion. lt seems to me that in matters of this kind, both the pastorists 
and agriculturists have hitherto shown a most remarkable degree of 
apathy. The Tagasaste requires but little trouble in cultivation ; it 
readily adapts itself to the climate, and with a small amount of exertion 
would soon stock any run into which it might be introduced with a 
profitable fodder shrub. I am glad to say that, recently, applications 
from farmers for seed аге on the increase. For the benefit of those who 
are inclined to profit by the experience afforded by the late drought, I 
once more recapitulate the valuable qualities of the Tagasaste as well as 
the mode of treating it. 
The seed may be sown broadcast in эе usual way, but, before 
Sowing, it is well to won it 3t for a few hours in hot water во аз to soften 
it, and allow it to germinate the mor b fiy: When the plants come 
up too freely they should be thinned pt, and those whieh are removed 
may be planted out elsewhere. They should stand 8 feet or 10 feet 
apart. For the first tw о years the shrub does not attain its fullest 
crimi In the “third year a large > obtained, h 
