20                              Carotene Content of Grasses

                                                TABLE I— concld.

                                              Grasses and fodders

No.

Name

Place

Carotene

in mg.
per kg.

Remarks

65

Spear Grass hay
(Heteropogon con-
tortus
) .

Hosur Cattle
Farm.

14

66

Spear Grass green
(Heteropogon con-
tortus
) .

Ditto .

34

67

Andropogon annula-
tus
(green).

Ditto .

44

68

Kolukkatti Grass
(Andropogon annu-
lotus
) (green).

Ditto .

118

69

Chloris barbata
(green).

Ditto .

40

70

Indigofera anna-
phylla
(green).

Ditto .

52

71

Rice straw (Oryza

sativa) .

Nagpur Agric.

Depot.

Trace

Height 4 in. Harvested before

dead ripe.

72

Groundnut stems and
leaves (Arachis
hypogaea
) .

Ditto .

10

Height 2½ ft. Harvested in
green condition.

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.