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There are many other sorts better for later keep. There is 

 a. green-rinded turnip which grows to a good size, and 

 being very sweet, the sheep are particularly fond of it. 

 There is a useful turnip, which from growing much under 

 ground will well stand the severity of a long frost. And 

 so will the Scotch, but these, sheep are not very fond of. 



Every autumn, after an early harvest, I plough up all the 

 stubbles i can, to sow stone turnips, and, in some seasons 

 I have found them very valuable spring keep for ewes and 

 lambs. Many years in June I have sown, after hoeing, 

 about one pound per acre from my long box barrow 

 machine, in my wheat crop, which has often produced me 

 a crop, consisting of blades from the shed corn, and mode- 

 rate-sized turnips, which I have often found most useful in 

 bringing my lambs to eat turnips before they are penned 

 on them for the winter, and this at an expense of about 9d. 

 per acre.* A fair crop even of Swedes may be obtained by 

 seed being well hoed in amongst dibbled beans that are not 

 growing on very stubborn land. The turnips get more air 

 in beuns than in any other crops ; and the beans being 

 reaped, the turnip tops do not get mixed with them, as they 

 would with mowed oats or barley, and thus delay the crop 

 from getting into good order for carting. It is useless how- 

 ever to attempt any thing of this kind, if the lami is not 

 clean and in good heart. I wish also to say that in. 

 mentioning what I have done in this extra way of green 

 crops, 1 do not mean to recommend it for general practice. 



FINGERS AND TOES IN TURNIPS. Conceiving that many 

 of the readers of this little work may not know what is 

 meant by this term, I think it necessary to give them some 

 explanation. Some turnips, instead of forming round 

 bulbs, with a tap root, throw out four or live collateral roots, 

 something like fingers and toes, without any bulb having 

 been formed. In some parts of Lincolnshire this extra- 

 ordinary disease in the turnips, as it is there called, is very 

 prevalent, and has hitherto baffled all endeavours to pre- 



* All seeds sown in crops of coin should be sown when the blades are 

 dry; if sown when wet, the chief part of the seeds will get amongst the 

 roots of the corn, instead of where it slumld be, between the drills. 



