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anxious) is the seed / for if the seed be not sound, 

 and especially if it be not true to its kind, all your 

 labour is in vain. It is best, if you can do it, to get 

 your seed from some friend, or some one that you 

 know and can trust. If you save seed, observe all 

 the precautions mentioned in my book on Gardening". 

 This very year I have some Swedish turnips, so 

 called, about 7000 in number, and should, if my seed 

 had been true, have had about twenty tons weight ; 

 instead of which I have about three! Indeed, they 

 are not Swedish turnips, but a sort of mixture be- 

 tween that plant and rape. I am sure the seedsman 

 did not wilfully deceive me. He was deceived him- 

 self. The truth is, that seedsmen are compelled to 

 buy their seeds of this plant. Farmers save it ; and 

 they but too often pay very little attention to the 

 manner of doing it. The best way is to get a dozen 

 of fine turnip plants, perfect in all respects, and plant 

 them in a situation where the smell of the blossoms 

 of nothing of the cabbage or rape or turnip or even 

 charlock kind, can reach them. The seed will keep 

 perfectly good for four years. 



No. V 

 KEEPING cows (continued.) 



129. I HAVE now, in the conclusion of this article, 

 to speak of the manner of harvesting" and preserving" 

 the Swedes ; of the place to keep the cow in; of the 

 manure for the land ; and of the quantity of labour 

 that the cultivation of the land and the harvesting of 

 the crop will require. 



130. Harvesting" and preserving the Swedes. 

 When they are ready to take up, the tops must be cut 

 off, if not cut off before, and also the roots; but neither 

 tops nor roots should be cut off very close. You will 

 have room for ten bushels of the bulbs in the house, or 

 shed. Put the rest into ten-bushel heaps. Make the 



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