green barley, green oom, ana green sugar cane. In soutriBm Ecuador between 
oanta xiosa and Loja bromi sugar was caimonly fed to animals. This comes in 
calces like small bricics and is called raspadara. It is made by boiling dovm 
the raw sugar juice without purifying in ai^y way, giving a dark brown mass. 
Animals are very fond of it. Another feed for animals is obtained from a 
wild grass mich has been brought imder cultiiration by transplanting the 
roots. This is Axonopus iridifolius aid is cal3a d gamalote lor gramalote | . 
^.:he grass is cut and fed green like alfalfa. 
Peru. 
In a general way the iriain subdivisions into coastal plain, uordillera, 
and oriente continue|. fro.:- ^.cuador into i^eru. fhe coastal plain is extremely 
arid ani- constitutes one of the most desert regions of the world. In nruoh 
of the region rain falls only at intervals of several yearE-r- sometimes as 
luuch as fifteen. There are seveml rivers from the moxmtains that f low to the 
sea. To the valleys of these rivers tne agriculture is confined. The soil 
is fertile and when irrigated froiii these rivers produces abundantly. The 
chief crops here are cotton, sugar, and frmts, especially the grax>e. fhe 
Cordillera or Sierra contains two or three ranges and includes several high, 
snowcapped peaks of over £0,000 feet. The valleys between are in tne central 
and soutnern part expanded into broad plateaus of 12000 to 14000 feet 
elevation. These uplands are called Punas and correspond to the paramos 
of Ecuador* 
In Peru the rivers in - the valleys of the north and central part flow to the 
north an,,, finally east to join tlie Ainascn. lauitos in the north-eastern loart lie 
