Show SOWING VING TURNIPS TO FOLLOW VEGETABLES No Better Crop to Utilize Vacant Spaces in Gardens They Are Useful for or the Table and to a Limited Extent Will Supply Place of Potatoes potatoes bly Rich men Soil Needed V f f I Prepared d by the United ed States Stales DeI Department Department Depart Depart- it ment of ot Agriculture As a crop to utilize gar garden en space after earl early vege vegetables uhles have been har bar harvested vested ested nothing Is better than turnips Turnips should be planted in most parts of the country about Jul July 25 but butIn butIn butin In the extreme South as late as the thelast thelast thelast last of August and und can be left In tha ground until after se seh several lul light frosts ts or all nil winter in the South They are useful as a table tuble vegetable lunch and to a limited dolled extent will supply tle he place of potatoes es It Is the general opinion of sl specialists of the tile United States Department Department Department De- De De De- of ot Agriculture that the tho American public could consume many more turnips than It t does a fact of particular Interest this year ear when there seems eYer every Indication of a curtailed curtailed curtailed cur cur- tailed potato potato crop For field sowing turnips 2 ere arr usually The particular ular requirement require require- ment Is a reasonably rich soil finely raked and leveled lc off ocr to avoid water collecting In pools The he seed should be sowed o sparingly One homely rule rules is s to take the quantity which seems sufficient and divide it In half After the seeds have been scattered on the surface of the ground the they should be raked In This l mn may ia be do done e by dragging drag drag- ging a piece Illece of bru brush brub b h over the ground The surface should be well smoothed It Is a n good plan to sow sov turnips tm Just after a ti rain giving them opportunity to sprout before a 8 crust forms After sowing they will need little attention until hn harvest |