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close up. The poor have no fees for compensation suits. Yet 
these figures, confessedly incomplete, speak for themselves to 
tell us that a happy medium between an undue legislative inter- 
ference on the one hand, and an appalling destruction of life on 
the other, is one of the wants of the time. 
XVIII. — On Storing Turnips, Mangold, Potatoes, and Carrots 
By George Jonas. 
Prize Essay. 
This Essay is intended to embody the results of practical expe- 
rience, derived from the management of about 700 acres of 
roots, grown annually under my superintendence. The chief 
points to be observed for ensuring success in storing are, first, 
to select dry and fine weather for the operation, and never, under 
any circumstances, to cart or store any which are the least frost- 
bitten ; to cover up and keep them dry when carted, but never 
so closely covered as to prevent the escape of any slight heat 
arising from the heaps and clamps when first stored ; to be 
exceedingly watchful in the spring, as soon as vegetation com- 
mences, to uncover the top or ridges of the stored roots, so as 
to allow the escape of any heat arising from their sprouting, 
j The general time for beginning this work is the middle or 
atter part of October, and it is not generally completed till the 
atter part of November, or in some mild seasons until the be- 
ginning of December. Fine weather not only ensures the safety 
of the crop, but allows of the roots being laid in larger heaps, 
and in great measure protects the land from the injury caused by 
carting. 
On heavy lands, ill suited for sheep, the whole of the turnip 
crop is drawn for stall-feeding ; but on light sheep farms, the 
general and best plan is to remove about one-fourth or one-fifth, 
according to the crop, taking five rows and leaving fifteen or 
twenty, or doubling these numbers. By this means the whole 
of the land is folded regularly, and turnips enough for the cattle 
are procured without exhausting the land. 
The turnips required for immediate consumption in the 
yards should be drawn off, well cleaned and topped, then 
carted and stored in houses or sheds about the latter part of 
October. If the sheds be open, they should be covered with 
straw to protect them from the frost. All the turnips that are to 
be consumed in the yards should be carried home and secured 
before the frost sets in ; therefore, where there is not sufficient 
shed-room, they may be kept very well in large heaps, on the 
