RANDOM NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 2

RANDOM NOTES.

It is a wonder to me (writes our travelling correspondent) that so few fanners go in for a crop of Kohl Rabi for fattening. Riding over tho hills from To Korito to Brunswick, through Messrs. Cave's property, I went through a paddock on the tableland, on which last season they had fed off a crop of this plant, and ray feet in tho stirrups were brushing the stumps all the time — stumps as thick as my wrist. The crop was growii on fairly heavy land, two hundredweight of manure to the acre. There is one drawback with Kohl Rabi, and that is it should ho eaten off quickly, otherwise the bulbs go woody and hard. It does not seem to take blight like the turnip, and from what I saw at Te Korito I think it is a crop to which lamb-raisers should turn their attention. It is usually said that" in grafting trees only stone will work on stone, and pip on pip; that is, you would have very little prospect of success in grafting an "apricot on an apple. But in Mr. G. Campbell's orchard at Brunswick, I saw an aple tree which had been cut hard back, being an unprofitable sort, and on it wore grafted— growing, and making good growth too—rose plums, two sorts, pear, and gooseberry. Mr. Campbell is an enthusiastic orchardist and ah experienced seed grower.