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the best milkers they were on a good ration of concentrates
with ample of roughage, yet gave themselves no time to get
hungry before clearing up the Sunflower. This crop will
receive a further trial in 1926-27 from seed saved this
year.

(c) Kikuyu Grass:—After two years' experiment the
conclusion is that this grass is a failure in this district. It
only grows when the climate is favourable for a few weeks
in the spring and autumn, even then it is a poor growth
and is rapidly crowded out by indigenous grasses if not
weeded. The plot mentioned last year which was hoped
might be available for grazing experiments contained dis-
tinctly less Kikuyu in March 1926 than in March 1925.
Since weeding has been abandoned indigenous grasses are
rapidly increasing and will probably crowd the Kikuyu
grass out altogether.

(d) Burmese Sorgham seed was also supplied by the
Deputy Director of Agriculture in charge Cattle-Breeding
Operations, United Provinces. The crop was badly affected
by borer and was a complete failure. Local varieties of jowar
were less affected than usual by borer.

(e) Manure.— An experiment for making "compost"
manure was commenced in March 1926, briefly, this con-
sists of heaping grass weeds and organic matter generally,
covering each layer with earth (and sprinkling with lime,
if available). When sufficiently rotted it is used as manure
in the ordinary way. The experiment has been started on
the Mundiawala cultivation, and if successful will be of
great value, as this is the largest irrigated block on the
farm and the most distant from a good manure supply.

(f) A modern masonry ensilage tower was built by
the Public Works Department in the Home Farm during
the year, but it was completed too late to fill. It will be
filled with chaffed green jowar during the kharif of 1926.
Whilst on the subject of ensilage it will be of interest to
mention that an ordinary underground ensilage pit filled
four years ago with green jowar was opened for issue as
rations recently; the pit opened up clean and fresh with
very little top waste, and the animals ate the whole of it up
clean. So long as a pit is kept properly covered with earth
the contents remain good for several years.