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tion of turnips near any woods) they hardly ever rot. 

 The tops or leaves are in the fpring much more 

 abundant, and much better food than thofe of the 

 common turnip, and they continue in full perfection 

 after all other turnips are rotten or worthlefs. 



With thefe circumftances to recommend them, it 

 muft however be owned, that they have inconve- 

 niences attending them. They require a great deal 

 of time and pains to get them out of the ground, 

 if pulled up to be carried elfewhere: — and if fed as 

 they grow, they are fo deeply rooted in the ground, 

 that it requires the fame labour to get the pieces 

 out of the ground, and they rife with abundance of 

 earth entangled in the fangs of the roots. They 

 are likewife fo firm and folid, that the whole ones, 

 when pulled up, require to be cut in halves, that 

 the cattle may be enabled to eat them. 



To obviate fome of thefe objections, it will be 

 proper to fow them on rich and very light land j 

 and as they are longer after being fown in coming 

 to the hoe, than the common turnips, I have found 

 it neceflary to fow them earlier, fo early as the be^ 

 ginning of June. 



I have grown them a great number of years ; 

 from the experience I have had of their utility I 



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