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Mr. Brown also has an imported cob stallion called Reality, an imported 

 Welsh pony stallion nametl Vero, and a Victorian-bred Welsh pony stallion 

 named Young Wonder, whose photographs we shall show in another article 

 at a later date. 



The result of crossing the mares hred at the Almac Cob Stud by Almac 

 with Vim has proved successful, and the same may be said of the cross of the 

 ponies bred by Snowball to the other pony stallions. It is hoped that in a 

 few years' time the horses coming from the Almac Stud will be an object 

 lesson to show what can be done by breeding from pure-bred sires to good 

 conformation mares with some breeding, and retaining the fillies from each 

 cross to stint back to other pure-bred sires of the same class, and afrer two 

 crosses out, to return the third cross to the original sire, to still retain the 

 conformation and keep the blood pure so long as a sire will prove himself 

 prepotent. 



Sultanas on Phylloxera- Resistant Stocks. 



M. BLUNNO. 



Thompson's Seedless, a grape grown for drying purposes, very similar to 

 the Sultana, has been grafted on phylloxera-resistant stocks at Howlong 

 Viticultural Station with some success. In the year 1904 a crop yielding at 

 the rate of 9,046 lb. per acre was obtained. This was no doubt an abnormal 

 one, and has not been reached in any year since on any variety of stock. The 

 stock which gave this yield was the hybrid Ripariax Rupestris No. 101". As 

 these abnormal crops may occur, they must be carefully excised from any 

 data used for calculation, as it would undoubtedly mislead one into expecting 

 such yields. 



The experience with seedless grape-vines grafted on resistant stocks is at 

 pre>ent limited. There is no previous European experience to go on, as the 

 Levant, the home of the seedless raisin industry, is one of the few vine- 

 growing districts as yet free from the pest. At the Howlong Viticultural 

 Station the results of experiments have been various, but so far no definite 

 information is available. The experience of one grower near Junee is that 

 the Sultana bears as well when grafted on Rupestris Metallica as on its own 

 roots. It may with almost perfect safety be said that Thompson's Seedless 

 would behave in a similar manner. 



The experience at Howlong, and also in Victoria, indicates that the crops 

 are rather erratic, and until more is known of their behaviour on phylloxera- 

 resistant stocks it behoves intending planters to proceed slowly with putting 

 out seedless grapes not on their own roots. It is very desirable that a more 

 complete knowledge of their behaviour should be obtained, and in this 

 connection vine-growers, in those districts suited to the Sultana, can assist 

 the industry by conducting trials on a small scale and keeping a record of the 

 results, and communicating the same to the Department. 



