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work quite so late as this, but if you get caught, do not 

 hesitate to work during the storm. If you do the work 

 well, you can go to sleep afterwards, with a conscious- 

 ness that, no matter how the storm may rage, your root 

 crops are entirely safe. 



The method of keeping turnips here recommended is 

 generally adapted to keeping beets, mangels, carrots, 

 parsnips', etc. 



FALL, OR EARLY WINTER TURNIPS. 



As a rule, this intermediate class of turnips has at- 

 tracted very little attention in this country. It would 

 not at present be advisable to raise them largely. I 

 should not raise them at all, unless I had land all ready 

 for the crop the first or second week in July, when it 

 was too late to be sure of getting a crop of ruta-bagas. 

 In a case like this, such varieties as the Yellow Aberdeen 

 can be sown from the middle of July to the first of Au- 

 gust with great advantage; you can get a large crop to the 

 acre; far greater than you can of the Strap-leaf, Flat 

 Dutch and other early varieties sown later. The Yellow 

 Aberdeen will keep in excellent condition from Decem- 

 ber to February, and be valuable for the table, when the 

 early varieties have become pithy and tasteless. When 

 better known, it will prove a profitable variety for the 

 market garden, as it has always been for the stock feeder. 

 The cultivation of the Yellow Aberdeen and similar va- 

 rieties, does not differ essentially from that of the ruta- 

 bagas; it does not need to be sown so early, and does not 

 require so rich land. A soil in good mechanical condi- 

 tion, that has been liberally manured for the previous 

 crop, will, by the aid of a dressing of three hundred 

 pounds per acre of superphosphate sown broadcast, pro- 

 duce a fine crop without any other manure; but if the 

 land has not been manured for the previous crop, it will 



