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then ; é , 
a Increase by degrees the quantity of saltbush, and decrease that of cereal 
a till the proportions are about equal. If the green saltbush is used, then 
y should constitute about one-third of the roughage of the ration. 
1 i The question still to be settled is whether the large amount of saline 
| clients will be harmless to all kind of stock; e.g., milch cows. Assuredly 
i Salting will be necessary, and, if no purgative effect is noted, no other 
vantage need be apprehended. 
The following is the table above alluded to :— 
TABLE—SHOWING THE COMPOSITION OF DIFFERENT FoppDERS. 
1 a * it ait 
. PERCENTAGE COMPOSITION. 
Name and Locality -- ee LSP AERO 
: j > Nitrogen 
Moisture. Pure Crude Crude Free Crude 
Ash. Protein.| Fibre. | yy tract Tat. 
a 
4, sennip GREEN. : 2 
Ae iccata—Tulare lg 73°03 4°58 2°75 3:75 | 10:41 “48 
ean ootta—Paso Robles Y se) (ERED 4:93 3°93 5°58 | 10715 “AL 
Sn eenulata— Australia Ea Set RU 5:98 3:06 4°53 | 10:87 “56 
“imularia—Australia ... 75°00 7°82 4°11 1°81 | 10°71 ahs) 
Bveee ccc ae ss |) 75176) | B83) |B 46) | "B792')' 10'83))-* “50 
Ai i oe 
Pat average for California... ...| 750) 180) 491) O84) 1100) 
J AigiectoVer average for California... ..| 81-25 2:07 | 285 | 466] 841) 76 
a, average for California . ...| 80°00 1:72 2°83 4°72 9°81 92 
1A sem Hays. 
Agatidaccata—Tulare eo | 7-05 19°37 | 11°64} 15°88 | 44°05 | 2°01 
ea ibaccata—Paso Robles “ ) 40°00 | 17°74] 14:14] 20718 | 36°54] 1-47 
4 iMpanulata—Australia ...  .. «| 1000 91°53 | 11°01 | 16°30 | 3913 | 2°01 
Rt ies eee aatealineeets lie aren Oe10;00 sie 29515. 214:7921 se G:018 15838700) /ele98, 
Seerarommns meme oe eet eer (iO :02sem ole 7O) eet 2.89) | gel47 27) Se So 578 LES y 
Alf Penis ass iooatctyen la Dy 
| Ban average for California... ...| 10°05 | 6°43 | 17°60 | 22°63 | 39°31 | 3-08 
| 0,, Cover—Petaluma OLD TS] 995] 5:00 | 13°65 | 30°38 | 38:22 | 3°60 
| Whoaid; Santa Clara 7 TT} 10°38 | 6:75 | 8:31] 23°85 | 47-91 | 2:80 
met hay—Danville.. ove | 1167 675 | 6:48 | 18:72] 54°33 | 1°85 
a non barley hay—Tulare tate unG 440 e7glb: |e Licl1ilm 22°55) 8150:37e| 82:38 
FLAX AND HEMP IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. 
Pen appears to be the happy hunting-ground of bounty-seekers. or 
om years the Government has been trying to induce the farmers to grow 
on and hemp, and a fund amounting to £100,000 has been devoted to paying 
ajaties on these products. Over four years ago, in 1895, the growers received 
| Peeey of 68 franes per hectare (£2 18s. 10d. per 25 acres). In 1898 the ~ 
ae under flax cultivation was so reduced that the bounty was raised to 95 
a (£8 15s. 2d.) per hectare. There were then only 47,000 acres under , 
pan 17,870 under hemp. The high bounty appears to have stimulated. 
that tp to a small extent, as the Minister of Agriculture has recently announced 
h t: 
Bek bounty to be paid to growers for the crops of 1899) is 923 francs per 
“aii or 2} francs less than in 1898, but still equivalent to nearly 30s. per 
The effort recently made to induce farmers to grow flax in England does 
sho dppear to have been attended with any success. A return just prepared 
ee that the total flax area has fallen from $95 acres in 1898 to 465 acres this 
ee Lincolnshire has dropped from 109 to 20 acres, Norfolk from 10 to 5 
ik» While the East Riding—the largest flax-growing county—has reduced 
Yea from 258 acres in 1898 to 106 acres now. 
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