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On the Kohl-Rahi. 
14. For cattle and horses it affords true nourishment when 
boiled with grain. 
15. For milch cows it is invaluable, giving to milk or butter 
none of that disagreeable flavour which results when they are fed 
on turnips. 
16. For ewes and lambs it is as fine food as they can have in 
March and April ; and when the ewes are lambing it is found 
greatly to increase the supply of milk, 
17. Kohl-Rabi is, so far as at present known, subject to no 
diseases except " clubbing " and " anbury." 
18. If hares or rabbits exist in the neighbourhood of the 
crop, they are sure to prove very destructive unless means of 
precaution are taken. 
19. The leaves are of equal value with the bulbs in nutritive 
properties. 
20. The plant for feeding purposes is twice as valuable as 
ordinary turnips, and materially surpasses the best swedes in 
point of composition and feeding value. 
21. It bears transplanting better than any other crop, and is 
invaluable, therefore, for filling up blanks in turnips, swedes, or 
potatoes. 
22. The Kohl-Rabi can withstand any amount of drought, if 
the operation of transplanting has been successful. 
23. The most intense frost does not affect it ; it stands the 
winter well, and affords good feed even to the end of sj)ring. 
24. Its advantages over the swedes are, that cattle, and espe- 
cially horses, are fonder of it ; the leaves are better food ; it bears 
transplanting better than any other root ; insects do not injure it ; 
drought does not prevent its growth ; it stores quite as well or 
better ; it stands the winter better ; and it affords food later in 
the season, even in June. 
END OF VOL. XX. 
bCNDON : PRINTED BT W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, 
AND CIIARINC CROSS. 
