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RUTABAGAS, OR SWEDISH WINTER TURNIPS 



UTABAGAS differ from the common turnips in 

 having more of a cabbage-like foliage and the roots 

 grow to very much larger size, besides being by far the 

 best keepers. Large quantities of the coarser kinds are 

 used for cattle feed. The medium-sized sorts, of which 

 American Purple Top or Improved Long Island (as illustrated) 

 is the leading kind, are of very fine table quality. Pur- 

 ple Top grows partly out of ground, being of bright yellow 

 color beneath the soil. It is of elongated globe shape. 

 Flesh yellow. 



Sweet German and White Swede are two white-skinned, 

 white-fleshed sorts of slightly later season of maturity 

 and elegant table qualities. Yellow Aberdeen and Mon- 

 arch are two late sorts with yellow flesh of very good 

 quality, though grown principally for stock feeding pur- 

 poses. All the above sorts grow partly above the ground, 

 which makes their harvesting easy. All will keep well 

 until spring if stored as suggested on next page. 



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