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Excerpt from A Contribution to Agricultural Botany: Being Lessons From Turnip Singling
A good deal has recently been done towards clearing up our views on certain points in the manuring of the turnip, and I have thought it might be of some interest to inquire in one or two directions in what way the turnip crop ought to be treated, so that manurial improvements might be more fully taken advantage of. A cattle-feeder does not think he has done all that can be done when he keeps his stalls replenished with the best food. He selects the sorts of cattle most easily fed and of most rapid growth. And he treats them in such a way as to make the food givon most effective. The agriculturist must act in an analagous way with his turnips. He must not merely supply his seeds with the best manure; he must select the best seeds he must find out the sorts which grow rapidly to the largest sizes con sistent with the heaviest crops. He must give his plants the proper space to grow in. He must use them as though he loved them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
