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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

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The discovery of new and easily cultivated fodder plants, especially those adapted to hot countries, is a matter which now excites great attention in India and the colonies. It is inevitable that this should be the case, as the primitive physical conditions of newly page 12 settled countries gradually give way before the changes brought about by their occupation for agricultural and other industrial purposes.

Both in North and South Australia the conservation of the natural pasture is already attracting grave consideration. Where the mischief has gone too far and is irremediable the vegetation which is gone must be replaced by some substitute foreign to the soil. Some of the more important of the fodder plants which during the past year have come under our notice at Kew are discussed in the following paragraphs:—