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On the Kold-Rabi. 
The following particulars are from the Crystal Palace Prize 
List : — 
1859. — Grown by Colonel North, M.P., Wroxton Abbeys Banbury, 
Oxon. Round green Kohl-Rahi. 
Sown 29th March in a seed-bed m drills one foot apart, and transplanted 
in the field the last week in May; manured with 15 loads of farmyard- 
manure and 2 cwt. of Proctor and Eyland's tumip-mannre per acre ; soil, a 
rocky loam ; previous crop, wheat. 
It is unnecessary to give the particulars of the three other 
classes, for all were grown on the same description of soil, and 
treated in a like manner. 
As to the average weight of single bulbs, we have access to 
more reliable data than in estimating the average produce of an 
acre. The two oblong varieties may be set down at 7 lbs., the 
round at 6 lbs. Estimating the weight of an acre from the 
average of a single bulb, affords a striking proof of its fallacy ; 
and yet how very plausible it appears, and how very correct it 
ought to be. Here is the calculation and its result : — assuming 
the drills to be 27 inches apart, and the distance between each 
plant 12 inches, this will give 19,360 plants to the acre. Taking 
6 lbs. as the average weight of the round varieties, 51 tons 18 
cwt. per acre should be produced, and with the bulbs at 7 lbs. no 
less than 60 tons 11 cwt. ! This is certainly a possible return, 
but not a very probable one. One inch difference in the distance 
between the plants, or say 11 instead of 12 inches, will, in the case 
of the 61b. bulb, increase the return to 56 tons 11 cwt., and with 
the 7 lb. bulb to 66 tons per acre. If the average weight of the 
bulb be 8 lbs. instead of 7 lbs., then we ought to get 75 tons and 8 
cwt. These facts afford matter for the serious consideration of 
the grower not only of Kohl-RabI, but of turnips ; showing, as 
they do, how very materially the value of his crop may be 
affected by a careless worker dibbling the plants even a single 
inch wider apart than is necessary. 
Consumption of the Ceop by Iate. Stock. 
All the domesticated animals feed on Kohl-Rabi with avidity, 
and even reject turnips for it. The farmer has merely, therefore, 
to determine the most profitable mode of consuming it. And in 
endeavouring to point this out, we shall bring together the most 
trustworthy opinions we have been enabled to procure ; our own 
experience not affording any reliable evidence on this point. 
As the leaves afford the same amount of nutritive matter as the 
bulbs (as will be shown when treating of the chemistry of the 
plant), and as all our correspondents agree in stating that they 
are eaten with avidity by both milch cows and ewes ; the best 
