The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-07-13
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TEE TURNTP CROP-PROFE.
TABLE.

No CROP makes better returns for
lsor bestowed than turnips. The
seed may be sowed any time from
&he first of June throughout August
in many localities below the isother'
NAL of say the north line OF Con-
necticut. It may be soWed broad
cast, in drills or rows, or IS a cat
tie CROP among corn; or turnlps
may be used to seed to grass with,
sowing both the turnip and grass
seed about August 1st. For tar
nips alone the preparation OF the
ground is simple. It needs good
blowing and narrowing if in fair
heart but a dressing Of 400 lbs.
Of bone dust or 250 lbs. superphos.
phate to the acre will almost insure
Q good crop. We rarely have such
dry weather that turnips will not
start in July, and soon as they
make leaf heavy dews seem to be
enough to- keep them growing, but
last year was an exception in this
part Of the country. In many
fields turnip seed on dry ground did
not germinate, or at least did not
make any show above ground.
In sowing turnips broadcast the
greatest care must be taken to.
have them thin enough. A pound
Of seed TO the acre is all that
should be sowed, and this should
be divided, the whole piece being
sowed twice at right angles. In
Europe the seedsmen use old seed
baked, or baked rape seed, to mix
with surnip seed as an sdnlteration.
IF We could bug here such old bak-
ed seed so as to mix it oorselves-
say five pounds of baked with one
Of live seed, and thus be able to
make fair cast, instead of throw
ing little pinches Of seed as we now
do, it would save a good deal OF
trouble. Sowed in drills, turnips
must be thinned. Much rank
manure gives strong bad favor.
Turnips ought never to have the
6rst chance at dressing Of yard
or stable manure, but to come in as
q second crop. As to varieties,
there are two widely different
classes, and intermediate varieties
without number which it is hard to
classify. Swedish or Russian tur.
nips, generally known as ERuta-
bagas' or 'Svedes,' are very dis
sinet, hard aeshed, glasy-lesved
kind, occurring in many varieties,
that need better soil, earlier sowing
and better culture than the soft
aeshed or English turnip, which is
rongh-lesved, grows most rapidly,
is voracious feeder, doing well
and making bulky watery crop
where Swedes would do very little:
and yet it is questioned whether the
small crop of Swedes would not
contain nearly as much nutriment
as the soft turnips. Between these
two extremes of hard-feshed and
soft-deshed kinds are many va
r;eties partaking in a measure of
the bard-feshed character of the
Swedes, but generally regarded
and treated as belonging to the
common or English species. Such
are the 'Yellow-globe,' yellow
stone Dutch etc. AS a rule it is
best to SOW Swedes as early as the
first OF July, the Globe and
Stone turnips as early as the 25th,
and the soft turnips, 'Strap-leafed
fst,' 'Cow-horn,' ETC., by the 10th
Of August The last named is the
best to seed down to grass with,
and on good soil not clayey, tur-
nips and clover seed may be mixed
together, using Is lbs of clover
seed, as some will winter-kill.
american Asriculturist for July.
NORFOLK DUMPLNas.-Make s
very light dough with the powder,