GUINEA GRASS, Panicum jurnentorum. When well manured and kept clear of weeds, it grows luxuriantly, and admits of being cut ever six weeks or two months. A small patch nes Colombo, about an acre and a half, for 7 or years supplied 3 or 4 milch cows and from 5 t 7 horses continually with all the grass require for their consumption, and latterly left a surplu which was dried for bedding and hay. Whe first planted it frequently attains a height of eve 9 feet ; and a stalk taken promiscuously from small patch planted in Combaconum measured 1 feet 4f inches in length ; when cnt two or thrc times it grows thicker, but not so high. M Wedderburn in Coimbatore, with the view c utilizing the washings in the municipal slaughtei house, had a piece of neighbouring waste land, i extent four acres, enclosed and irrigated by th diluted filth of the slaughter-house floor. BesidE this, pondrette, consisting of night-soil and ashe, was applied. These four acres of land produc annually thirty-two tons of guinea grass, at te rupees per toia. This nourishes bullocks bettc
than double the weight of paddy straw at seven teen rupees per ton. It is excellent feeding fc homes and cattle, and is generally preferred b them to the ordinary country grass, though horsE which are hard worked seetn to prefer the dr grass roots supplied by the grass -cutters. should not be given to cattle fresh, but th supply for one day should be cut the day prs vious; and it should not be cut too close t the ground, but the stalk ought to be left 7 t 9 inches high. It is a good plan to move th ground between the roots every time the grass cut, and it should be heavily manured after ever three or four cuttings. It is very hardy, and ma be easily propagated. It requires abundant moiE tare, but will not live in a soil which is at a marshy. ' It answers best planted in small tufi 1 foot 9 inches to 2 feet apart, which rapidl spread into stools from 6 inches to a foot i diameter.—Spry's Suggestions, p. 15.