WAY OF GROWING MAkOCfL'^K \}m 



given in damp weather un^i].iit^e,d; Ji^i'foJaf^^'.'liqiiid,' 

 manure applied during dry weather is liabre 16 bunii ' 

 the plants. If liquid manure is not available an 

 additional cwt. of nitrate of soda may be applied at 

 the grower's discretion when the plants have got a 

 firm hold of the ground. 



If it is not possible to give as much farmyard manure 

 as the quantity mentioned above, the crop should 

 receive an additional 4 cwt. of superphosphate per 

 statute acre as well as the quantities of salt and nitrate 

 stated. 



Sulphate of ammonia or nitrolim can be used in place 

 of nitrate of soda, but the full 2 cwt. of both of these 

 manures should be applied, mixed with the super- 

 phosphate and salt, on top of the farmyard manure 

 before the drills are closed. 



Then almost as important as the planting and 

 manuring of mangolds is their after-cultivation. There 

 is no crop that pays so well for proper after-cultivation 

 as does the mangold crop. The land after the winter 

 greens will be clean, but for all that, the crop should be 

 hand-hoed twice and a grubber run between the drills 

 three or four times during the growing period. 



Nevertheless, the work is straightforward enough, 

 and provided it is faithfully carried out one can safely 

 depend on obtaining a fine crop. 



LIFTING AND STORING MANGOLDS 



Mangolds should be lifted in good time in the 

 autumn, say, by about the middle of October ; for, 

 although a certain amount of growth may take place 

 after this date, there is always the chance of a sharp 

 frost, to which mangolds are very susceptible, coming 

 along and doing no end of damage. 



This is one of the many curses of the root-crop 

 which I have often described as the ** root of all evil." 



