20 Carotene Content of Grasses
TABLE I— concld.
Grasses and fodders
No. |
Name |
Place |
Carotene in mg. |
Remarks |
65 |
Spear Grass hay |
Hosur Cattle |
14 |
|
66 |
Spear Grass green |
Ditto . |
34 |
|
67 |
Andropogon annula- |
Ditto . |
44 |
|
68 |
Kolukkatti Grass |
Ditto . |
118 |
|
69 |
Chloris barbata |
Ditto . |
40 |
|
70 |
Indigofera anna- |
Ditto . |
52 |
|
71 |
Rice straw (Oryza sativa) . |
Nagpur Agric. Depot. |
Trace |
Height 4 in. Harvested before dead ripe. |
72 |
Groundnut stems and |
Ditto . |
10 |
Height 2½ ft. Harvested in |
73 |
Berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum) . |
Govt. Agric. Farm, Patna |
78 |
Height 1 ft. 9 in. Cut after 34 days from planting. |
A number of concentrate feeds were also analysed and the results are
shown in Table II.