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the vegetation of thefe roots is the firft thing that 

 renders them ufelels. They will grow till the grow- 

 ing quality is exhauffed, and then, by putrefying, 

 become quite .unfit for food. 



The bed method of preferving them that I have 

 heard of, and which has been tried with fuccefs 

 by fome of our bed farmers, is, to flack them 

 up in dry flraw ; a load of which is fufficicnt to 

 preferve forty tons of turnips. The method is 

 cafy, and as follows: — 



t 

 After drawing your turnips in February, cut off" 



the tops and tap-roots, (which may be given to 



iheep) and let them lie a few days in the field, as 



no weather will then hurt them. 



Then, on a layer of flraw next the ground, 

 place a layer of turnips two feet thick; and then 

 another layer of flraw, and fo on alternately, till 

 you have brought the heap to a point. Care mult 

 be taken to turn up the edges of the layers of 

 flraw, to prevent the turnips from rolling out; 

 cover the top well with long flraw, and it will 

 flrve as a thatch for the whole. 



In this method, as the flraw imbibes the moif- 

 ture exhaled from the roots, all vegetation will 



be 



