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manner in which 1 stacked my turnips last year. 

 That did very well. But, I will not, this year, 

 make any hole in the ground, I will pile up about 

 thirty bushels upon the level ground, in a pyra- 

 midical form, and then, to keep the earth from 

 running amongst them, put over a little straw, or 

 leaves of trees, and about four or five inches of 

 earth over the whole. For, mind, the object is 

 not to prevent freezing. The turnips will freeze 

 as hard as stones. But, so that they do not see 

 the sun, or the light, till they are thawed, it is 

 no matter. This is the case even with apples. 

 I preserved white turnips this way last year. 

 Keep the light out, and all will be safe with 

 every root that 1 know any thing of, except that 

 miserable thing, the potatoe, which, consisting 

 of earth, of a small portion of flour, and of 

 water unmixed with sugar, will freeze to per 

 dition, if it freeze at all. Mind, it is no matter 

 to the animals, whether the Swedish turnip, 

 the white turnip, or the cabbage, be frozen, or 

 not, at the time when they eat them. They are 

 just as good ; and are as greedily eaten. Other 

 wise, how would our sheep in England fatten 

 on turnips (even white turnips) in the open 

 fields and amidst snows and hard frosts? But, 

 a potatoe, let the frost once touch it, and it is 

 wet dirt. 



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