THE SPINELESS CACTUS—A WONDERFUL FODDER PLANT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 5

THE SPINELESS CACTUS—A WONDERFUL FODDER PLANT.

[To The Editor Stratford Post.] Sir, —This, remarkable plant is not yet much known, and it would prove of great value to stock-owners, especially in poor soils, semi-dry country, or inaccessible places, where other crops cannot he grown. Jt can lie easily raised either from seed or plants, and after the first year or two will produce according to the variety from 25 to 10n tons or more per acre per annum, of succulent and nutritious fodder, which is suitable for all kinds of poultry, which require but little, if any, water when fed thereon. The leading authorities praise it highly, and say that it is a great milkproducer, and makes beef and butter of the host quality. The improved [varieties yield heavy crops of largo and palatable fruit, red, white and yellow, and which also makes excellent preserves, and the fleshy young 'leaves are a good and wholesome vegetable, cooked in various ways. Xo other fodder plant yet known will 'give such a large, reliable, and inexi pensive yield, even in tin 1 poorest soils or under the most adverse conditions as this modern vegetable marvel, and no matter what age it may h P .._even years—it will always provide a fresh and succulent food for stock. - I am, etc., B HARRISON, F.L.S., Burringbar P. 0... N.S.W. 21-2-11.