Culf fccttton of Arable Lttnd. Turnip s Sorts- of mofi proper, t * 



the feeding and maintaining of different kinds of live ftock. It has contributed to 

 leffen the necefiity, and remove the lofs fuftained by the practice of making naked 

 fallows, and at the fume time provided an abundant fupply of food for the fupporr 

 and fattening of cattle, fheep, and other animals. In this combined view, it may of: 

 courfe be confidered as forming thebafis of theprefcnt improved hufbandry oa all 

 the more light and friable loamy foils, where its cultivation can -be fuccefsfully car-, 

 ried on upon an exteniive fcale ; the nature of the plant and that of its culture re - 

 taining the land on which lit is grown in a perfectly clean condition, and under a 

 ftate of admirable preparation for various crops, but particularly fuch as require a 

 fine, mellow, and weil-pulverifed bed of earth to grow in, as barley, grafs- feeds, and 

 many others. 



The turnip has a roundifh fiefhy root, which differs greatly in form and colour 

 according to thecircumftances of foil, fituation, and culture; but the varieties that 

 have been principally cultivated in the field in different parts of the kingdom are thofe 

 of the round and long roofed kinds. 



The firft fort, which varies greatly in colour both in the root and top, has com 

 monly a round flattim root, and is diftinguiihed by cultivators into the round red or 

 purple topped, the green topped, the white topped, the yellow, the black or red rooted^ 

 \\\eftone, and the Dutch turnip. 



The fecond fort, inftead of having a round (hape, and fpreading fomewhat 

 flatly on the ground, as in the above kind, has a longifli cylindrical form, and 

 is known to agricultors under the titles of the tankard, the tap-rooted^ and the pud 

 ding turnip. 



All the varieties of the firft kind, from their roots being formed more in the 

 earth than thofe of the fecond, which often Hand naked above the furface of the 

 ground, are better adapted to the purpofe of being cultivated in the field, where 

 there is danger of their being expofed to the feverity of froft ; but in other cafes, 

 as for providing food at an early period for the fupport of fuckling ewes, or the 

 fattening of fuch fheep as are forward, the latter may be the moft advantageous 

 and proper, as they are faid to be adopted with fuccefs in thefe intentions in the 

 practice of Hertford (hi re.* 



The cultivators in different diftricts prefer different varieties of the firft fort; 

 but where the fituation is open and expofed, thofe that root deep or fland moft in 

 the ground fhould probably be chofen, cfpecially where they are to be ufed in the 

 winter feafon without being previoufly drawn and preferved, as experience has 

 (hewn that they are the moft fecure from the danger of froft. The green 



* Bannifter s Synopfis of Hufbandry, 



