The new Dwarf Prolific is about the best variety.
Fall turnips are so easily grown that they require but few words.
They are valuable vegetables for utilizing space in the garden
after early crops, as peas, beans, potatoes, etc., are removed.
The seed of ruta-baga, or Swedish turnips, should be planted
earliest--from the twentieth of June to the tenth of July in our
latitude. This turnip should be sown in drills two feet apart, and
the plants thinned to eight inches from one another. It is very
hardy, and the roots are close-grained, solid, and equally good
for the table and the family cow. The Yellow Aberdeen is another
excellent variety, which may be sown EARLY in July, and treated
much the same as the foregoing. The Yellow Stone can be sown on
good ground until the fifteenth of July in any good garden soil,
and the plants thinned to six inches apart. It is perhaps the most
satisfactory of all the turnip tribe both for table use and stock.
The Bed-top Strap-leaf may be sown anywhere until the tenth of
August. It is a general custom, in the middle of July, to scatter
some seed of this hardy variety among the corn: hoe it in lightly,
and there is usually a good crop. Every vacant spot may be
utilized by incurring only the slight cost of the seed and the
sowing. It may be well, perhaps, to remember the advice of the old
farmer to his son.
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