From the n. England Farmer.


TURNIP.S
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Iurnlps love a light sandy or gravelly soil
or sandy loan. 1t should be made soft
end fine, but not too rich lest the turnips be
rank and i.l-tasted.


Ground that has been newly cleared. Yields
the largest and sweetest tnrpiDs: and on
such spot there is the least danger from in
sects.


Next to new land, swarded ground is to be
chosen for crop of turnips; and the way to
prepare it is to plough it pretty deep in the
spring, and fold it by turning in the stock
for good number Of nights. Tor there is
scarcely any of our fields sufficiently rich to
produce turnips without manuring: and fold
ing hitherto appears to be the best method
of enrching the ground for this purpose
1t should be we'll narrowed as often as
once week, while the folding is contnu-
ed, to mix the excrements cf the cattle with
the soil


The ground should be cross ploughed as
soon as the soil is sufficiently rotten, and re-
duced by narrowing to a fine tilth, before
1t is sowed. Where a good stock is kept
as much as an acre may be sufficiently fold.
ed.


The time for sowing the seed is about the
middle of July. Doing it on a set dey is ri
diculous: for time should be chosen wher
the ground has the right degree of moisture
to make the seed yegetate; and if this shouls
happen a week earlier, or fortnight