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muttony taste so unpleasant, and gain a delicious flavor. The tur- 

 nep yields a heavier crop than any other vegetable in England. It 

 almost always precedes the wheat crop. The mild winters of Eng- 

 land enable sheep to eat them out of the ground. They are placed 

 within a moveable iron fence, upon a patch, and when that is eaten, 

 moved to another: dropping their dung on the patch, they enrich 

 the soil. The following year an extraordinary crop of wheat grows 

 on these fields. I would recommend the sowing of the yellow Aber- 

 deen and Dale's Hybrid in August. The red-top turnep grows large, 

 and must be the first fed to stock, for it will not keep well. In West- 

 chester, last year, we supplied by turneps, half the crop of hay v;hicL 

 was lacking. 



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