Cultivation of Arable Land. Turnips Seeding of. i .53 



ibmething more, on the acre ; in many inflances it will, however, bemuchlefs. 

 The value of thefe crops will depend upon various circumftances : as their 

 quality and abundance; the manner in which they are confumed, as on the 

 land or in cribs or ilalls ; in fattening or rearing different forts of live flock ; and 

 the flate of the markets in refpect to the fale of fuch flock. In general it may 

 be from about three to fix or feven pounds the acre. It is found by experience 

 that an acre of good turnips will be fufficient to fatten a bead of about forty llo le, 

 or eight fheep.* In feeding offin the open field, they are fou :d to pay from two 

 {hillings and fix pence to four millings and fix pence the ton, a crop of tweity 

 tons producing in beef or mutton from fifty fh llings to four pounds re;i (hillings,, 

 befides the dung and urine, which may be equal to fifty millings more. Wnen 

 confumed by cattle in flails, they are dated, however, to afford one milling a 

 ton more than when eaten by them in the fieldf 



In cultivating turnips for feed fome attention is neceflary, as, where it is col 

 lected from fuch turnips as have been fown three or four years in fucceflion, the 

 roots are apt to be numerous and long, and the necks or parts between the bulbs 

 and leaves coarfe and thick : and when taken from fuch as have been tranfpl anted 

 every year, thefe parts are liable to become too fine, and the tap-roots to be dimi- 

 nifhed in too great a proportion. ; 



The moil certain method is to procure feed from turnips that are tranfplanted 

 one year and fown the next ; or, if they be tranfplanted once in three years, it is 

 fuppofed by fome that the flock may be p refer ved in a proper flate. The method 

 of performing this bufinefs is tofelect fuch turnips as are of the befl kinds and of 

 the mofl perfect forms, from the field crops, and, after cutting their tops off, to 

 tranfplant them, about the month of November or December, into a piece of 

 ground that has been put into a fine flate of preparation by repeated ploughing or 

 digging over, and which mould be fituated as near the houfe as poflible, in order 

 that the birds may be better kept from it. The feed will, in general, be ready for 

 gathering in the July or Auguft following.}} 



Some, however, recommend that the feed collected from a few turnips thus 

 tranfplanted, fhould be preferred and fown in dnlls, in order to raife plants for 

 feed for the general crop, drawing out all fuch as are weak and improper, leaving 



* DonaHfo-. s Modern Agriculture* vol. II. p. 318. 

 f Corrected Agricultural Report of Middlefex, p. 208. 



J Kent s Hints. Ibid, and Experienced Farmer, vol. I, p ;&, 



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