Contributed Articles March 1995 (No. 1)

Performance, feed quality and P response of Leucaena and Calliandra species grown as hedgerows on an acidic nitosol at Soddo, Ethiopia — K. BERHE and J.C. TOTHILL

The response of three Leucaena leucocephala cultivars to a four-cycle cutting frequency under rainfed dryland conditions in Zimbabwe — P. NYATHI, H.H. DHLIWAYO and B.H. DZOWELA

Deciduous trees: a dry season feed resource in Australian tropical woodlands? — J. BRIAN LOWRY

Preliminary evaluation of species for use as premanent ground cover in orchards on the north coast of New South Wales — D.J. FIRTH and G.P.M. WILSON

Productivity in late winter and spring of four cultivars and 21 accessions of Cenchrus ciliaris and Digitaria eriantha cv. Premier — J.B. HACKER, R.J. WILLIAMS and J.N. COOTE

Production by sheep grazing six Cenchrus ciliaris accessions — D.J. MINSON and J.B. HACKER

Effects of soil origin and mineral composition and herbage species on the mineral composition of forages in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya.
1.  Calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and sulphur — I.O. JUMBA, N.F. SUTTLE, E.A. HUNTER and S.O. WANDIGA

Effects of soil origin and mineral composition and herbage species on the mineral composition of forages in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya.
2.  Trace elements — I.O. JUMBA, N.F. SUTTLE, E.A. HUNTER and S.O. WANDIGA

Awards of the Tropical Grassland Society of Australia Inc.

Book reviews

LEGUMES: the Australian Experience. The botany, ecology and agriculture of indigenous and immigrant legumes

Managing Native Pasture — A Grazier's Guide

Managing Southern Speargrass — A Grazier's Guide

Plants of the Northern Australian Rangelands

Special issues of Tropical Grasslands

Notes for Contributors

Contributed Articles June 1995 (No. 2)

Yield and population dynamics of Chamaecrista rotundifolia cv. Wynn in coastal south-eastern Queensland as affected by stocking rate and rainfall — R.M. JONES and G.A. BUNCH

Long-term records of legume persistence and animal production from pastures based on Safari Kenya clover and leucaena in subtropical coastal Queensland — R.M. JONES and G.A. BUNCH

Forage legume establishment in rice slash-and-burn systems — W. RODER and S. MANIPHONE

Dry matter production of thirteen tropical legumes in association with rhodes grass (Chloris gayana cv. Callide) on an acid soil in Ehtiopia — A. LARBI, J. LAZIER, J. OCHANG and A. ADDIE

The effect of mixtures of sun-dried tropical legumes on intake and nitrogen balance by sheep — O.M. FÄSSLER and C.E. LASCANO

The effect of wilting and drying on intake rate and acceptability by sheep of the shrub legume Cratylia argentea — M. RAAFLAUB and C.E. LASCANO

Performance, dry matter intake, digesta kinetics, and ruminal fermentation of steers grazing Sorghum halepense at three stocking rates — DARRYL L. RANKINS Jr and DAVID I. BRANSBY

The effects of different light levels on the nutritive quality of four natural tropical grasses — S.G.J.N. SENANAYAKE

The productivity of pure and mixed grass-legume pastures in the Northern Guinea Savanna zone of Nigeria — Y. SHEHU and J.O. AKINOLA

Performance and nutritive quality of dwarf and semi-dwarf elephantgrass genotypes in the south-eastern USA — M.J. WILLIAMS and W.W. HANNA

Book review

Biology and Agronomy of Forage Arachis

Contributed Articles September 1995 (No. 3)

Evaluation of Chamaecrista rotundifolia accessions as a fodder resource in subhumid Nigeria — S.A. TARAWALI

Pasture production, diet selection and liveweight gains of cattle grazing Brachiaria brizantha with or without Arachis pintoi at two stocking rates in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica — M. HERNANDEZ, P.J. ARGEL, M.A. IBRAHIM and L. 't MANNETJE

Component forage yield and quality of grass-legume cropping systems in the Caribbean — M.B. ADJEI

Effect of level of Leucaena leucocephala in the diet on feed intake, growth and feed efficiency of Yankasa rams — R.O. BALOGUN and E.O. OTCHERE

Agronomic characterisation of Stylosanthes biflora — M. BANTA and A.M. THRO

Short note: Management of nitrogen-fertilised Callide rhodes grass for improved spring growth — K.F. LOWE, T.M. BOWDLER and R.T. COWAN

Evaluation of thirteen Stylosanthes scabra accessions in five dry tropical environments — T.J. HALL, L.A. EDYE, C.H. MIDDLETON, W.B. MESSER and R.W. WALKER

Primary production of rangelands in southern Mali: a study of methodology — SUSAN J.L.E. LELOUP and L. 't MANNETJE

Performance characteristics of Desmanthes virgatus in contrasting tropical environments — C.P. GARDINER and R.L. BURT

New herbage plant cultivars

(a) Sesbania sesban (L.) Merrill (sesban) cv. Mount Cotton

Book reviews

Forage tree legumes in tropical agriculture

SEEDS OF PROGRESS — An Agricultural Scientist in Southeast Asia

The Grass Genera of the World

Contributed Articles December 1995 (No. 4)

Permanent pastures on a brigalow soil: the effect of nitrogen fertiliser and stocking rate on pastures and liveweight gain — R.M. JONES, C.K. McDONALD and M.W. SILVEY

Degradation of Australian vertisols after conversion from native grassland (Astrebla lappacea) to continuous cropping in a semi-arid subtropical environment — K.Y. CHAN, THE LATE A.S. HODGSON and A.M. BOWMAN

Harry Stobbs Memorial Lecture, 1993 Herbivore mediation of grass-woody plant interactions — STEVE ARCHER

Management of Calliandra calothyrsus for fodder production in Jamaica — R.T. MORIKAWA, D.O. LANTAGNE, M.A. GOLD, S.G. KRECIK and J.M. ROSHETKO

Effect of energy and protein supplementation on milk yield and quality of Holstein-Friesian cows grazing irrigated Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum cv. Midmar) pastures during the dry season — G.J. MANYAWU and A.U.K. MADZUDZO

Seedling establishment of Andropogon gayanus var. bisquamulatus under dry conditions — A. BULDGEN, J. FRANCOIS and J. FALLA

Sources of resistance in species of Brachiaria to foliar blight disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani — SEGENET KELEMU, JOHN W. MILES, XIMENA P. BONILLA and JORGE L. BADEL

Effect of drying method on chemical composition and in vitro digestibility of multi-purpose tree and shrub fodders — B.H. DZOWELA, L. HOVE and P.L. MAFONGOYA

Book reviews

The Pasture Lands of Northern Australia — Their Condition, Productivity and Sustainability

Managing northern speargrass — a grazier's guide