The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

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During the past season, we published an extract from a writer on the subject of raising English turnips, describing the best method of cultivating that vegetable. A highly respectable patron, of Essex County, having, in consequence of following the directions contained in that article, he had raised, from a little over ten rods of ground, seventy bushels of excellent turnips, equal to about 1000 bushels to the acre, some of which weighed from 10 to 13 pounds. He states, that, early in the spring, he ploughed the lot two or three times, and fenced it off for a cow yard, for which purpose it was used until the usual time of sowing, when it was again ploughed and harrowed, and sowed broadcast. The ground had formerly been much infested with weeds and thistles; to remedy which, the turnips were hoed and thinned out several times, commencing soon after they had attained the third leaf. He attributes the success of his crop almost entirely to the hoeing and thinning of the plants—as, by similar treatment in every other respect, he had never before had much success in the cultivation of turnips.—Vermont Republican.