HAGI AS A FORAGE CROP. 
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space of 25 centimetres between the plants. Manure was not 
supplied. The plants developed in the course of the summer to 
a height of about 1.3 metres, and after having cast off their 
leaves, the stems were cut in the winter of 1886—87. In the 
following season 3 cuttings were taken, oil May 29th, August 
12th, and October gth, 1887. The yield, kilograms per tan, was 
as follows : 
Green fodder. 
Hay. 
Kilogrms. 
Kilogrms. 
x. Cutting 
. 
. ...1161.5 
3 Ï 5-9 
2 . „ 
. 
...1202.6 
390.8 
3 * n 
. 
... 256.3 
93 -° 
Total .. 
...2620.4 
799-7 
Compared with the medium yields of the ordinary leguminous 
forage crops in Europe, where lucerne produces per tan about 
800 kilogrms. of hay, red clover 600, and lupines 500 kilogrms., 
the amount of fodder obtained from the hagi field appears to be 
quite satisfactory. 
The chemical analysis of the three cuttings gave the follow¬ 
ing results : 2 
2 In these, as in all the following analyses, the crude fibre is free from ash 
and crude protein, and the ash is free from coal and carbon dioxide. 
