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CULTURE OF FARM CHOPS. 



partaking, however, more of the character of the common 

 turnip both in its roots and its leaves, than of the swede. 

 It is perhaps scarcely necessary to inform even the tyro in 

 agriculture that the leaves of the swede, like those of the 

 cabbage, are smooth and of a soft green colour, those of the 

 common turnip rough, with the colour of a vivid green. 



Fig. 11. 



92. Before proceeding to note the peculiarities of the soil 

 best calculated to produce heavy yields of turnips, let us 

 glance very briefly at the habits of growth of the plants, 

 which may lead us to some knowledge of its cultural re- 

 quirements. If we pull a turnip up, or rather dig around 

 it, so that we can lay bare, before pulling it up, a large 

 portion of the surrounding soil, and if the plant has had 



