REPLIES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2862, 20 January 1909, Page 20

REPLIES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Br Agricola. "Subscriber," Wrights Bush.— Your turnips, from tho particulars you give, are doubtless attacked with finger-and-toe disease, brought about chiefly by the continuous cold wet weather, and also by the fact that last year you grew a root crop on the same ground. This it. not a gcod practi'oo to follow in farming, for the reason that soms diseased and rotten roots and tubers are always left on tha ground, when either potatoes or turnip 3 are lifted, and in a damp season follow ins, such as the present one, disease is pietty sure 1o attack a loot crop if planted in the same grou-id. Warm, dry weather will do jnuoh to prevent its spreading, but that is about all you can hope for to stay the spread of the dis&aee. W. R., Mahono. — There are so many books on agriculture that it would be as well for you to write to any of the leading ' firms of booksellers in Dunedin for particulars. Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs, R. \ J. Stark and Co., or J. Braithwaite would send you particulars if you applied to any of them, and stated whether the book you wanted was for beginners or those more advanced in agriculture. j W. S., Colac Bay.— The radieh you sent > is most interesting. It has, as you say, j just the formation of a. baby's hand". These j freaks are not uncommon. I