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2. The produce of the turnip crop necessarily varies. 

 Mr Paterson of Castle Huntly found that his globe or 

 common turnip weighed fifty tons per acre, when entire, 

 but only forty-six tons when the tops and tails were cut 

 off. Mr Allan of Craigcrook states, that on his farm at 

 Oldliston, the common white turnip weighed from forty 

 to fifty tons per Scotch acre, and the tuta baga from 

 fifty to sixty tons. 



3. The mode of consuming turnips, by feeding cattle 

 and sheep, is well known -, but there is one mode of giv- 

 ing them to sheep, adopted by Mr Hunter of Tynefield 

 in East Lothian, which seems to be peculiar, and to 

 merit paiticular attention. 



He states, that he has been in use for seveial years 

 past, to turn part of his straw into manure in winter, by 

 folding sheep, and giving them turnip on the top of ihe 

 straw. In 1808, he had 300 sheep, mostly black-faced 

 wedders, three year old from the Highlands, at L. 20 per 

 score, fed on turnip in the following manner. A fold, 

 containing an EnglUh acre, was made in the corner of a 

 field on a sputhern exposure, sheltered from the north 

 and west by a strong thorn hedge : the whole fold was 

 then covered with straw a fo<>t thick. The sheep were 

 turned in, and turnips carted and laid on half of the fold 

 upon the straw, and a daily supply was continued on the 

 same half till the straw under them was a little wet : the 

 turnip was then Liid on the other half, covering that part 

 where the turnip had been first laid with fresh straw, and 

 he continued to change from side to side once in two or 

 three days, always giving fresh straw the whole season. 

 The sheep lay very dry, the straw serving as a drain to 

 receive moisture. As the palm or chaff upon the straw 

 was eaten by the sheep, they fatted apace, and were 

 sold in March at L. 42 per score. The quantity of manure 

 produced was very great, (no doubt partly depemlin 



