On the Kohl-Rabi. 
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growing in the immediate neighbourhood of turnips which were 
cut off by the fly, and the Kohl-Rabi not touched." The opera- 
tion of seed-dibbling can be performed by hand at a cost of Is. 8f/. 
per acre — that is, two women at lOr/. each. A horse dibble will 
sow four or five acres per day ; but the use of this machine will 
rather enhance the cost of dibbling by from %d. to Is. peiiacrc. 
Dibbling will require about 2 lbs. of seed per acre. Another 
grower in Ireland — Mr. William Boyle, of the Model Farm, 
Glasnevin, near Dublin — writes, saying that he sowed the seed 
of Kohl-Rabi for three years in the same manner as his swedes, 
and afterwards thinned them out ; but enlarged experience led 
him to infer that a better plan was to sow the seed about the end 
of March in a good seed-bed prepared for the purpose, and trans- 
plant them about the time of sowing swedes. Other growers — 
among whom may be mentioned the Earl of Essex, Mr. Innes, 
factor for Colonel North, Mr. Towers, and Mr. Hewitt Davis — 
prefer the system of sowing in a seed-bed and afterwards trans- 
planting ; and this mode, therefore, agreeing as it does with our 
own experience, leads us to recommend it for general practice, 
both on the score of economy and the greater certainty of 
securing a good crop. 
The following shows the relative cost per acre of the three 
modes : — 
\. In a Seed-bed and Transplant hi g. 
s. (7. 
Labour in preparing the seed-bed . . . . 10 
Seed 2 4 
Transplanting to the drills 3 4 
(3 8 
2. Drilling with the Machine. 
£ s. d. 
Seed .. .. • • 0 18 0 
Drilling the seed 0 10 
Singling 0 3 G 
£12 6 
3. Dibbling by Hand. 
d. 
Seed 9 0 
Labour 18 
Singling 5 0 
15 8 
The substitution of the dibbling-machine will, as previously 
stated, effect no saving, bi t, if anything, enhance the cost of the 
operation. 
