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TURNIPS— FOR WINTER USE 
rp H E main sowing of these is generally made during 
the first week in July and they are grown and culti- 
vated very much like winter radishes. Plants are thinned 
out to stand four inches apart in the row which are gener- 
ally put two feet apart. 
Perhaps the most widely grown sort in cultivation is 
Red or Purple Top White Globe which forms handsome, 
globe-shaped roots in seventy-five to eighty days from 
date of sowing seeds. Properly grown roots average 
three to three and a half inches in diameter and have pure- 
white skin with red and purplish blotches around the top. 
White Egg is of elongated shape and slightly earlier, but 
does not keep so well. Pomeranian White Globe grows 
slightly larger, but has coarser flesh and is later. Long 
White Cowhorn is a still later sort grown extensively for 
cattle feed. The flesh of all these is white. The most 
popular yellow-skinned and yellow-fleshed sorts are 
Golden Ball and Yellow Aberdeen. 
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