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existence. Therefore in countries where frost is natural, 

 danger from mustard reproducing itself by natural seeding 

 need not worry the farmer or flockmaster. 



I have sown the seed at many different periods during the 

 fall months, but in no one case have I seen a single seed 

 germinate in the spring, for the simple reason that the seed 

 would all germinate in the fall and continue to grow until 

 destroyed by frost. The English wild mustard plant or 

 "Charlock" has been confounded with the domesticated 

 English white mustard; it is, however, a very different plant. 



Kohl Rabbi. 



Kohl Rabi is a root much relished by sheep and exten- 

 sively grown by many old country flockmasters. It is better 

 suited for the dry and hot seasons experienced in many parts 

 of America than any other plant or root that I am acquainted 

 with. I have grown enormous crops of them in Indiana. 

 They are a very dry fleshed root, and belong to the cab- 

 bage family. In appearance they are not unlike a rutabaga, 

 growing on a very short cabbage stump, or stalk, with the 

 leaves growing in a scattered way all over the bulb, instead 

 of growing in a tuft, as is the case with the rutabaga. Kohl 

 Rabi is raised in about the same way and manner as ruta- 

 bagas, and originally came from Hungary. 



Common Turnips. 



Our common turnip furnishes one of the most appetizing 

 and valuable rations for the flock that we have. Were there 

 not a particle of nutriment in them, they would still be val- 

 uable if only as an aid and promoter of digestion, especially 



