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Article LXII. 

 On the Turnip Husbandry. 

 [By a Gentlemen in Norfolk.] 

 Sir, 



IN cultivating Turnips to advantage, great care 

 mould be taken to procure good, bright, nim- 

 ble, and well-dried feed, and of the beft kind. 



The Norfolk farmers generally raife the oval 

 white, the large green-topped, and the red or 

 purple-topp'd kinds, which from long experience 

 they have found to be the mod profitable. 



The roots of the green-topp'd will grow to a 

 large fize, and continue good much longer than 

 others. The red or purple-topp'd will alfo grow 

 large, and continue good to the beginning of Fe- 

 bruary; but the roots become hard and ftringy 

 fooner than the former. 



The green-topp'd growing more above ground, 

 is in more danger of fuftaining injury from fevere 

 froft than the red or purple, which are more than 

 half covered by the foil, but it is the fofteft and 

 fweeteft when grown large, of any kind. I have 



feen 



