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means delicate ; but they must be dry, to prevent heat- 

 ing and rotting. Frost injures them ; but not more (if 

 so much) than it does the potatoe. 



When given to cattle or sheep, they are to be wash- 

 ed and cut, or chopped. I have boiled th^ra for pigs ; 

 and sometimes for other stock ; and they were prefer- 

 red in this way by miich cows, mixed with a little bran 

 or meal. I have never known any animals reject them 

 permanently ; though at first some were shy, and dis- 

 inclined to feed on them. Most of my stock ate them 

 raw. They are always to be considered as a winter 

 food, the leaves excepted. When cattle or sheep have 

 been on grass, they do not eat these roots, or any other, 

 v;ith much relish. 



They delight in loamy or sandy soils ; and I had 

 them the largest and best, in my trenched fields — The 

 depth of loose eardi gave room for the tap-root, and 

 its fibres, to penetrate and spread. The soil must be 

 in good tilth, and the richer, the better. Miracles 

 have ceased ; and it cannot be expected that sterile 

 land will profitably produce this, or any other crop. 

 Yet they do not require manure, in such quantity as 

 do potatoes ; nor are they so exhausting a crop. I'hey 

 leave the ground finely prepared, for any crop. Like 

 many garden vegetables, they grow well in virgin soils. 

 Cabbages in new land, have not the flatulency of those 

 in dunged ground. New land turnips are best. — They 

 grow in limed land, remarkably fine. So does the scar^ 

 city root, 



CULTURE. 



1. Your ground must be deep and well ploughed or 

 dug ; cleansed ft om weeds and other pests, harrowed, 



