lis MANGEL WURT2EL 



But if fed plentifully to milch cows, they are said to give 

 •the milk an ill taste. (For saving the seed, see seed.) 



Mr. Little^ of Massachusetts, in 1821, raised 615 bush- 

 els of common turnips on an acre. The entire expense 

 of cultivating this acre, including thirteen dollars for 

 manure, was twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. 



Mr. Melville, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1817, 

 raised about 800 bushels of common turnips on an acre ! 

 We will briefly state his method of culture. 



The ground was old improved land, half in sward, and 

 halfpotatoe ground. Ploughed it 20th May, and har- 

 rowed it well twice. Ploughed and harrowed it again 

 20th of June, and formed it into drills, about twenty- 

 eight inches apart, — next day, carried on fourteen loads 

 hog manure, seven of sheep, and seven of barn manure, 

 applied it to the drills, and planted it immediately. Next 

 day sowed on thirty bushels slacked lime, and fifteen 

 bushels ashes ; to extend the experiment, divided the 

 top dressing equally on the different kinds of manure, 

 (so as to ascertain which manure, and which top dress- 

 ing was most suitable for turnips) left about two square 

 rods without either manure or top dressing, and marked 

 off three drills not to be hoed at all. On 10th July har- 

 rowed; 15th hoed them, leaving one plant in four or 

 five inches. That part with sheep manure and ashes 

 was the most promising ; and that with hog manure and 

 ashes next. After hoeing, the drills with hog manure 

 and ashes took the lead ; those not hoed, were very 

 diminutive. The 21st of July, harrowed again, and the 

 26th, hoed the second and last time. The 1st of Au- 

 gust, began to thin out, to feed to cattle — in this man- 

 ner, sixty-three bushels were used previous to harvest- 

 ing. On the 5th November, began to take them in, 

 and had tweiity-Jive oxen cart loads. The expense of cul- 

 tivation was seventeen dollars seventy-five cents. The 

 average weight of the turnips was from four and a 

 half to six pounds ; several weighed ten, and one weigh- 

 ed thirteen and a quarter pounds ; whilst those without 

 manure, and those not hoed, did not average more than 

 one and a half pound each. 



MANGEL WURTZEL. 



The Mangel Wurtzel, or Root of Scarcity, is a species 

 •f the beet. It grows like that, chiefly above ground, 



