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Swedish are sown. 4. The yellow Scotch is also a good 

 table vegetable, being palatable, more nutritious, and not 

 so watery as the Norfolk varieties. 



When Swedish, yellow Scotch, and Norfolk turnips, 

 were strewed indiscriminately over a field, and cattle and 

 sheep turned to them, it was observed that the stock select- 

 ed the yellow Scotch, after being used to them. This, 

 however, depends much upon the particular period of the 

 season when the trial is made. 



It is also maintained, though not ascertained by decisive 

 experiments, that the yellow is by far the best turnips for 

 milch cows, and that they thrive much better than the 

 Swedes in light soils. 



Mr Walker of Mellendean finds that the Scotch yellow 

 turnip, stands the frost as well as the Swedish, and he thinks 

 that horses prefer them to any other. If they are found to 

 stand the variations of the weather in spring, equally witfc 

 the Swedish, they appear to him to deserve the preference 

 in other respects. 



Mr Culley finds, that neither the yellow, nor any other 

 turnip, the Swedish excepted, will retain its juices in the 

 spring, and he considers the Swedish, on that account, as 

 entitled to a decided preference. Mr Rennie of Phantassie 

 also considers them, as, without exception, the most useful 

 plant of the whole species, and without them, there is no 

 safety or security, either for feeding or breeding stock. He 

 recommends, therefore, that one-third of this species, in 

 so far as turnips are cultivated, should be sown on every 

 farm. The only objections to them are, their being of so 

 hard a nature, as to be very pernicious to the teeth of 

 stock, particularly the very young, when shedding their 

 teeth, or the very old ; and that they require rich land, or 

 a great deal of manure. They may be transplanted, but 



