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SEE©-TIHE AH© HARVEST. 
Turnips and Turnip Culture. 
While all the species and varieties of the 
turnip may be considered as the most 
“watery” of cultivated roots, and contain¬ 
ing a low percentage of nutritive proper¬ 
ties, still they are valuable food for most 
hinds of farm stock. In winter, when 
beasts are fed dry fodder, or at least in 
great part, the addition of a few roots of 
•some kind is beneficial to health, even if 
they are not of the most nutritious kinds. 
Carrots, beets and parsnips are worth more 
for feeding than turnips, but they are cost¬ 
lier to raise, requiring a richer and deeper 
soil, a longer season, and a greater amount 
•of labor in cultivating and harvesting. 
Consequently they have never been as ex¬ 
tensively cultivated in this country as the 
turnip. There is probably no root crop so 
easily and cheaply raised, or one that grows 
more rapidly, or on a greater variety of soil 
than the turnip. It can usually be grown 
as an after crop, following some earlier 
one, like peas, beans, early potatoes, corn, 
wheat or rye. To prepare the land it should 
be freshly plowed, harrowed, and if not 
rich, be given a top dressing of ashes, mu¬ 
riate of potash, superphosphate, or some 
similar fertilizer. Barnyard manure, un¬ 
less very old and thoroughly rotted, is like 
lyto cause a growth of weeds that will 
overtop and crowd the turnips. Whatever 
is used in the way of a fertilizer should be 
applied as a top dressing after plowing, and 
then only harrowed in or mixed with the 
surface soil at the time or just previous to 
sowing the seed. From one to one and a 
half pound of seed is sufficient for an acre 
sown broadcast, and considerable care and 
skill are required to scatter the seed evenly 
over the surface. Sometimes the seed is 
mixed with ashes or dry earth to increase 
the bulk, and thereby assists the sower in 
making an even distribution. 
for salads, green onions in market in a 
few days, onions the regular market veg¬ 
etable. He succeeded last year very well, 
supporting himself, family, teams, &c. 
Another grows green peas as a first crop, 
followed by tomatoes, or green corn, or 
potatoes, or celery—two crops in a year. 
Potatoes are generally followed by cabbage, 
set between rows, or celery, set before the 
potatoes are dug, &c. Two crops of gar¬ 
den vegetables are grown in the open air, 
and sometimes three, in one season. 
The steam gardens, warmed by steam or 
hot water pipes, produce three and four 
crops of lettuce, parsley, &c., between the 
first of January and May. Vast quantities 
of flowers are grown in these—rose-buds by 
the million—and all the blossoming world 
adapted to green-house culture. There is a 
world of labor in this—profitable withal.— 
W. II. Gardner in Am. Rural Home. 
FLORIDA AIR PLANTS r m .“ r K 
growing on trees. Splendid for parlor ornaments. 
Subsist on air and have lovely white flowers. Strong 
fine plants free by mail for 10, 15, 25 and 50 cts each’ 
Extra Large, $1, $2. and $3 each. C. F. HART, 
Eustis City, Orange Co., Fla. 
(^“Reliable information on any subject relative to 
Florida furnished for 25 cents in stamps to pay post¬ 
age, etc.^^J 7 _ 
Gardening Near Chicago, 
Within sight of where I am writing, a 
German hires four acres for which he pays 
an annual rental of $25.00 per acre. His 
crop is onions. Onions for pickles, onions 
THE GRANGER FAMILY FRUIT & VEGETABLE 
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$3.50, $6.00, and $10.00. 
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^°± ories a “ d cellar, and other out buildings. Price 
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Reason for selling, owner is too old to attend to it 
personally. For further information write to 
F. M. SHEPLEV, 
° Glenelg, Howard Co., Md. 
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