Department of Agriculture Bombay. Bulletin No. 87 of 1918. The Utilisation of Inferior Grass Herbage: Experiments at the Tegur Cattle Station

The supply of fodder limits the number of cattle which can be kept and the nature of the fodder to a considerable extent determines the character of the cattle. [...] In larions parts of the country and especially in the monad tract of the Deccan and Karnatak —that is to say the tract lying immediately to the. east of the ridge of the Western Ghats. [...] Linn.) known as lama in the Deccan and as oobgadda in the Southern Maratha Country is one of the most common of the grasses over the range of country with which I am dealing. [...] for the hot weather and at the same time provide a certain amount of grazing in the early part of the rains and in the months after the hay making is over. [...] after the spear heads were removed by the grass comb it is found that the weight of green grass per acre by the latter method is nearly double of the former.