Vol ( ultlcatiOH of Arabic Land. Turnips -Preferring of Crops of* 



mote expensive than that of hurdles, and kfs convenient ; bat may fave fomcthin* 

 in carriage, where hurdles arc to be brought from a confidenible alliance. 



Where turnips are intended for the feeding of cattle, or other forts of (lock, 

 in the winter and fpring mouths, as they are extremely liable to l:e deftroycd 

 by che fuddcn alternations of froft and thaw, becoming in many cafes quite 

 rotten and unfit for ufe, it is nccelfaiy to prcferve them by forne means 

 or other during that fcalon. For this purpofe many different methods ha\c 

 &quot;been attempted, but probably without any of them being completely iuccels- 

 ful. The only perfcdlly fecuie method of protecting them againit the effects of 

 intenfe frod in fuch feafons, is perhaps that oi having them drawn, topped, 

 and piled up with -dry ftraw in houfes conflructed for the purpofe, contiguous 

 to the cattle-meds, or feeding- flails. This mode is, however, liable to objec 

 tion, as being both troublefomc and expenfive, efpccially where turnips are cul 

 tivated upon an cxtenlive fcale. There is, however, another method which 

 has been found veiy effectual, and which is lefs expenfive, and attended with 

 but little trouble; which is that of flacking them upon the field where they 

 grow, with layers of dry ft raw betwixt thole of the turnips. This is a mode 

 frequently practifcd in the county of Hertford, where they ufe one load of 11 raw 

 to about thirty or forty tons of turnips. The manner of performing the bufi- 

 ncfs is this: the turnips being drawn during a dry time, and the tops and tap 

 roots removed, a layer of ft raw is fprcad on a dry part of the ground, and a 

 layer of turnips placed upon it to the thicknefs of eighteen inches or t\vo feet; 

 iifter this another layer of ftraw, and then a layer cf turnips, proceeding alter 

 nately in the fame manner till the heap or ftack is brought to a ridge or point; 

 when the edges of the different layers of ftraw are turned up, which ferves 

 to prevent the turnips from falling out, and at the fame time affords a fort of 

 external covering to the heap, which is completed by being thatched well over 

 the top with long ftraw. They have alfo been attempted to be prefervcd by- 

 being -formed, without ftraw, after the tops have been cut off&quot; and u fed as a 

 green food, into what are termed pies, in the way that potatoes are fometimes 

 kept, being well thatched over on the outfide.* 



It has likewife been fuggefted, that the difficulty of getting them up, and the 

 danger they are expofed to during frofty feafons, as well as the inconveniences 

 the cattle experience in feeding upon them from their coldnefs, may be pre 

 vented by piling them up in fmall ftacks, the tops outwards, near to the places 



* Corrected Report of Middlcfex, p. 209. 



