one <>f the driest localities, the rainfall from the time the plants 

 were put out until the crop was harvested being only 3^ inches. 

 The plant, being a deep sucker, does not impoverish the land, hut, 

 on the contrary, does it good, bringing up fresh stores of plant food 

 to the surface for the subsequent use of shallower rooting crops. 

 The plants will last for two and sometimes three years if not allowed 

 to go to seed. Three pickings will yield from 35 to 45 tons of 

 green fodder per acre. Sowing and treatment same us for cabbage. 

 The jersey tree kale is another and very similar variety. In reference 

 to thousand-headed kale, a recent writer in the Agricultural (iazctlc 

 (London) says : "A few days ago I was over the farm of a friend. who 

 farms extensively, as he has recently added another looo-acre farm 

 to a previous occupation of the same extent, making upwards of 2000 

 acres in his holding, and what impressed me was the quantity of 

 thousand-head cabbage on the farms. All the sheep, comprising 

 about 1500 breeding ewes and 400 tegs, were feeding more or less 

 on this crop, and doing well on it. On my remarking on this fact, 

 he said, ' I have given up growing swedes, as it is a most expensive 

 and uncertain crop to grow ; moreover, the difficulty of obtaining 

 hoers when required in haying and harvest is very great. I there- 

 fore now grow thousand-head cabbage in place of them. I drill 

 them in May ; when they get high enough I run the harrows 

 across the rows, and skim them about twice, and that is all the 

 labor required.' Now contrast this with the swede crop, the 

 uncertainty of getting plants, and all the labor of getting them set 

 out and just at the right time. Moreover, the swede crop is very 

 liable to total destruction from a hard frost, whereas the thousand- 

 head cares nothing for frost ; and I knew a neighbor two winters 

 ago, when the severe frost killed everything else, sell three acres of 

 this crop for ^50 per acre for greens. I therefore think sheep 

 farmers in many cases would do well to reduce their swedes and 

 replace with thousand-heads, which come in in this country (Great 

 Britain) from about November up till the end of March." 

 A New South Wales farmer writing about thousand-headed kale 

 says : u Thousand-headed kale is the least known and most 

 desirable of any green crop I have ever seen. It is a plant that 

 produces more feed per acre than any other, does not disagree with 

 any stock, and does not impoverish the land. With me it has 

 never caused sheep or lambs to blow or scour. Eighteen perches 

 per day, with a little oat straw, have kept 270 sheep for three 

 months without the loss of one." 



HEMP. This plant is cultivated with success in the Gippsland 

 district of Victoria, and should do well in the Blackwood country 

 of this colony. It likes rich, moist bottom land, but will grow 

 fairly well in poor soils. It should be sown in drills in autumn or 

 spring so as to produce a more robust fibre. In its raw state hemp 

 is worth about ^43 per ton in Melbourne. 120 pounds seed to the 

 acre, broadcast ; half the amount in drills. 



