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than his potatoes. The only difference is, he cannot 

 sell them and make money of them, so soon, as he can 

 of his potatoes ; but he makes the money just as surely 

 by his cows, and by the quantity of manure he will get 

 for his next year's potatoes and wheat, as I hope to do 

 myself. 



Besides this, turnips, if kept clean, do not reduce 

 the land so much as potatoes. They leave more of the 

 goodness of the manure in it ; and so you will get a 

 better wheat crop after them than you will after 

 potatoes, as James White of Ballinascarthy did last 

 year. 



Nor are my turnips the only good ones in the coun- 

 try. Mr. Shuldhan of Dunmanway weighed part of his 

 turnips last year, and found that he had grown more 

 than thirty-two tons weight to the acre that is above 

 six hundred and forty hundred-weight, or above three 

 thousand four hundred weights of twenty-one pounds, 

 and these of the best kind of turnips Swedes, and 

 many other people have grown as much or more. What 

 do you think of this for food for cattle in winter 1 



There are two or three objections which I know will 

 be made to what I have said. One man will say, " All 

 this may be true, but how is a poor farmer to get cattle 

 to eat all this clover and turnips]" I answer, in the 

 first place, the cows and horses and pigs (for growing 

 pigs will thrive on clover and turnips), that he now 

 keeps, will eat a great deal more than they now get, if 

 he will give it to them, and what is more, they will pay 

 for it too. The cows will give him more milk and butter, 

 the horses will be stronger and do more work, and the 

 Digs will grow and thrive better ; and all will make him 

 a great deal more manure, which is the grand thing of all. 



