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TURNIPS. 
considerably; the few I saw were sown broadcast* 
March SO, 1807, viewed Mr. Richard Miller’s crop, 
Brant Hall, about four acres, and very good, now eat¬ 
ing by ewes and lambs, they succeeded common tur¬ 
nips, and were mucked for from Birmingham; he 
saves his own seed by transplanting the best formed 
roots into a garden bed ; seed sown from two to three 
pounds per acre, and perfectly cleaned from weeds by 
hoeing ; he has giown them for many years, and means 
to continue their growth; they are generally followed 
h y common turnips. 
At Mr. Knight’s, about five acres had been sown 
broadcast, the last week in May, 1807; they w r ere in 
July of promising appearance, and had been well hoed 
and cleaned; they were sown after common turnips 
the year before. I went over this field again with 
Mr. Knight, September £9, 1807, and found the crop 
very full and good. 
In my tours through the county, in 1804, I saw 
several specimens of Swedish turnips upon a small 
scale, and even in the common field of Bredon. Mr. 
C. reports, that they have been given with success to 
horses in the spring seed-time, being first washed, and 
given morning and evening; half the usual quantity 
of corn was sufficient, the horses refused good clover 
when they had Swedish turnips ; the man who looked 
after them, says, they are equal to carrots for horses, 
and he has proved both; the horses refused the com¬ 
mon turnip, if any happened to be mixed with the 
Swedish; they are proper to give horses from Christ¬ 
mas to May.— Mr. C. 
Cabbages are known in field culture, but not to a 
large extent; I sometimes met with them in hop-yards, 
in a row with the hop-plants, 'where they grow w^ell, 
and 
