In this country the dry herbage consists of hay and straw. In France the vine-leaves are collected and stored for winter fodder. In the West Indies the tops of the sugar-cane are deemed highly nutritious, after they are dried and sweated a little in heaps. In a season of abundance, ricks of the cane-tops the but-ends in, are made in a corner of each field, to supply the want of pasturage and other food. These are chopped small, and mixed with common salt, or sprinkled with a solution of molasses. Maize is sometimes made into hay. "When Guinea or Indian corn is planted in May, and cut in July, in order to bear seed that year, that cutting properly tended, makes an excellent hay, which cattle prefer to meadow hay. In like manner, after the corn has done bearing seed, the after crop furnishes abundance of that kind of fodder which keeps well in ricks for two or three years."* "In some places dried ferns, reeds, flags, small branches, or twigs, are dried and used as substitutes for hay."† Doubtless there are many other plants made into fodder in different parts of the world.

Where Canary corn is raised, the chaff and straw are given to horses, from which it is said they derive more nutriment than from hay.

* The " order," I suspect, would be nothing to boast of † British Husbandry, vol. i., p. 135. See also the Annals of Agriculture vol. xxxv., p. 13. Ency. Brit., art. Agriculture. Farmers Mag., vol. xx. p. 282. Comp. Grazier, fifth ed., p. 559; and Quar. Journal of Agric, No Xi.