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On topping Indian Corn^ and on the growth of Turnips 

 among Corn, By J, C Jones. 



Rockland Place, Sth ?no. (Aug J 22>dy 1819. 



To the Curators. 



Being desirous of promoting the laudable views of 

 the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, in 

 obtaining and diffusing knowledge upon this very inter- 

 esting subject, I have been induced to state my experi- 

 ence on the subject of raising turnips among Indian corn; 

 and also on the early topping and blading of corn, which 

 took place in the year 1817, and has since been confirmed, 

 so far as respects the culture of turnips among my coruo 



The following I have taken from my memorandum 

 book, under date Uth mo. (Nov) 25th, 1817. 



Having ascertained from experiment, that very fine 

 turnips can be raised among Indian corn, merely by sow- 

 ing the seed over the fresh ploughed ground on giving the 

 corn the last dressing ; I had turnip seed sown on the 

 day following that on which mine was last dressed, vizo 

 on the 18th of the seventh month last. Many of the tur- 

 nips produced from these seed, which were pulled in the 

 11th month following, weighed from four to seven pounds 

 each. They were of the flat and Norfolk kinds, principally 

 the latter. The additional time and trouble of procuring 

 said crop of turnips, (gathering in excepted) must be 

 confined entirely to sowing the seed, as they were not 

 even harrowed or brushed in ; the latter probably might 

 have been of advantage, — the former I object to, on ac- 

 count of covering many of the seed so deep, as to prevent 

 their vegetating. 



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