360 Storing Turnips, Mangold, Potatoes, and Carrots. 
being cleaned, as the earth thus left on tends to keep them 
fresher and in better condition. No straw is then used, a covering 
of 4 or 5 inches of earth alone being required. 
The work of cleaning and throwing into heaps of about 30 
bushels ready for covering up is done by women and children, 
at a cost of from 4s. to bs. per acre. The covering up with 
straw or haulm and earthing over will cost about Is. Gd. per acre. 
Those that are heaped without being cleaned will cost about 
Is. Qd. per acre to pull up and throw in heaps, and about 2s. per 
acre to cover over with earth. 
Another plan of storing turnips is to lay them in a furrow and 
plough them in. This is done by ploughing out two deep fur- 
rows up the centre of eight rows, the two centre rows being first * 
pulled and laid aside ; the turnips are then pulled up by two 
children and handed to a man (who stands between them) 
to be placed in the furrow tops upwards ; another furrow is 
then turned on to them on each side of the row, covering them 
up to the necks : 2s. Gd. an acre will be a fair price for pulling 
and placing in the furrows. Turnips will stand almost any 
amount of frost when stored in this way, and are much better 
than those left in the ground, even if they have escaped the frost ; 
besides they do not draw the land. 
Another plan is to pack the turnips in round patches, putting 
three or four loads in each patch. This is done by beginning in 
the centre to set them up with the tops uppermost, packing 
them close to each other till the patch is the required size, the 
leaves and all the soil hanging to the roots being left on ; the 
outside row should be covered up to the neck with earth, and in 
very severe weather a little straw should be thrown over the top. 
This plan is best adapted for storing roots on the stubble-lands 
for spring consumption, so that the turnip-land can be got ready 
for the barley crop. 
Mangold. 
The general time for storing this crop is the latter part of 
October or the beginning of November, according to the season. 
If left later they are liable to be injured by the frost. 
In taking up the crop the roots should be pulled up — care 
being taken not to bruise them by kicking them up — the leaves 
cut or twisted off, and the roots either thrown in heaps or loaded 
at once into carts. Twisting the leaves off is much better than 
cutting them off, as the mangold are liable to get injured by the 
careless use of the knife ; if the crown is cut, they very often 
decay. 
Mangold left in the ground will stand a frost, if not very severe, 
as their leaves protect them ; but when they are pulled a very 
