Hoots. 



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fixed nutritive value to each variety of turnip. Indeed practical 

 experience has shown that in one locality a particular kind of 

 turnip succeeds better, and is found to go further as an article of 

 food, than another variety, whilst the same kind of turnip which 

 is much appreciated in one place is held in very low estima- 

 tion by the farmers of another district. It is thus, strictly 

 speaking, incorrect to pronounce one kind of turnip to be always 

 less or more nutritious than another. The following table exhibits 

 at a glance the variations that we meet with not only in the com- 

 positions of different kinds of turnips, but also in that of one and 

 the same kind. 



TABLE showing the Proportion of Water, Solid Matter, Flesh-forming 

 Substances, and Ash, in different kinds of Turnips. 



