Storing Turnips, Mangold, Potatoes, and Carrots. 359 
south side of walls or buildings, care being taken in the latter 
case that there is troughing to protect the heap from the dripping 
eaves. The base wall is formed by two rows of hurdles, set about 
3 feet apart, the space between them being well stuffed with 
barley-straw or some short pulse to keep out the frost. The 
turnips are laid up to the top of the hurdles and piled up against 
the wall, the heap being covered with a thick coat of straw from 
the hurdles to the top of the slope. . 
This winter about 100 loads, carted in fine weather, and laid 
up against a barn in this way, kept in capital condition, and 
there was not a bushel of decayed turnips in the whole heap. 
It is a good plan to put a little straw at the bottom of the heap, 
to keep the roots from the ground. Another plan is to lay them 
up in long heaps of a triangular shape, about 8 feet wide at the 
base and 6 feet high, covering them over first with straw, 
and then with a slight layer of earth, but leaving the ridge 
without any earth on. 
When stored in either of the above ways, the turnips should 
be cleaned, and the crown or neck cut off close to the turnip, so 
as to prevent their sprouting ; if not thus treated they will begin 
to vegetate, which causes them to heat and decay very quickly. 
They will keep good till the end of February when properly 
stored. If it is required to keep them till March or April, 
they should be laid up in heaps from 15 to 20 yards long, about 
3 feet high and 3j feet wide at the base, tapering to the top, 
and covered with earth as a protection from the frost : the tops 
in this case are cut off, but the roots and earth hanging to them 
left on. 
The cleaning the turnips for carting home is done by women, 
at a cost of 4s. or 5s. per acre, or by a gang of children, having 
a man to superintend them. For this purpose they use a knife or 
chopper, with which they remove all the earth from the turnip' 
and cut off the tops, throwing the roots in heaps ready for 
carting, as they are cleaned. All that are left in heaps in the 
field at night should be covered up with the leaves, to protect 
them from the weather. 
The cost of filling into carts for carrying home would be about 
2s. per acre. 
Turnips are stored in a variety of ways for consumption in the 
field. When they arjs to be cut for sheep, they should be laid in 
heaps of about 30 bushels, with a little haulm or straw put on, 
and over this a covering of earth ; a little piece of straw being 
left uncovered at the top to let any heat escape. All that are 
intended for use before the end of January should be cleaned and 
the leaves cut off before they are heaped up ; but those for later 
feeding should be laid in heaps of about 10 or 12 bushels without 
