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TO CORRESPONDENTS. I "Brooklands" writes asking the best wty' to test turnip and Tyegrass seed. Roughly, small seeds may be tested for germination by placing them between two sheets of blotting paper, which are put into a large plat© in which a little water has been poured, not enough to swim the aeed, but a little more than will thoroughly damp the paper so as to be moist all night. This plate is then placed in gentle heat on the. warm top of the range and left there al! n'ght. Any sound seed will have sprouted sufficiently by morning to indicate whether it will grow or not. MoTe particularly, a stated number of seeds are grown in a greenhouse pot, from which thero i« sufficient drainage at the bottom—that 16 two or three bits of tile or brick partly covering the bottom are inserted before the soil. The soil used may consist of any ordinary well-made toil, sharpened up with a quarter I its bulk of fine ?and, and if a\ailable a little loaf-mould. This is pressed moderately firmly into the pot, and the whole , thing immersed to saturation m a bucko* of v*at«v and allowed to dry-again before sowing the *eed. The seeds are evenly scattered on the level top and pressed in slightly with the palm of the haml and lisrTnlv covered with very little fine mould. This may be covered with a pane of plats aiul kept in a living 1 room with a fair amount of light in it. Occasionally it is watered with a fine spvay, care being taken not to wa«h the seed bare or away After 10 dajs or a fortnight the number of seeds which" have sprouted may be counted, and the percentage of germination worked out. "(i. W.," Romahapa. aeke for the correct. Bmwfr to No. VI of the recent oompet itions, namely—"l* it possible to oomert a cow which gives 400 pallons of milk per annum mo one giving 650 gallons by improved feeding alone?'" The files of the Witness for August being at llie binder'^ I am unable- to give mv own answer, but the following reply by Mr Jus Cushnio fairly well embodies the point I wished to make: —"l consider it ib possible to convert v cow that gne^ 400 gallons of milk per annum into one pn ing 650 gallons by improved feeding alono, but the cow must be a good one. A poor milker will never reach the higher standard under the most favourable conditions. O.n the other hand a cow that i« naturally a good milker, if poorly wintered and kept on bare pasture in pummer, will in all probability give 400 gallons of milk per annum, but if the fame cow i^ well wintered, ie in pood condition at ci]\insr, and gets plenty of graes in summer, she will easily reach the higher standard of 650 gallon*. 650 gal witli a 38 test and Is per pound Imtter-fat £12 6 5 400 gal with a 3 8 tost and 1& per pound butter-fat 7 12 0 Difference between good feeding and bad .. > £4 U 5 One rood turnips 20s and £-acre additional pasture, say, sd, would bring a good uiilkinp cow from the lower to the higher standard without any special treatment, and leave a net profit of £3 to the credit of good feeding. AGRICOLA.

Where food is scarce molasses should be used with straw chaff to keep up the quality and quantity of milk all through the Winter. Nimmo and Blair supply it..*.