Show TURNIPS TU MAKE AKE VALUABLE FARM ARM PRODUCT R R 4 4 1 wi y i A 7 Z A Y 7 orn Excellent Fi Fired Field id of Turnips By y L. L R. R JOHNSTON As Ag I test the turnip year after year I l think more more n re highly ot of its value as a farm product t. t that can can be put to many uses On the table It is wholesome and good and ranks after potatoes and c cabbage As a feed I value it highly There is no herbivorous animal that does not relish it The horse houra is often an apparent ap ap- parent exception but with a little effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort he can be taught to acquire the taste faste It is usual to say that turnips make the milk taste but we are feeding them once a a day day day-at at noon noon to to our Jersey Jersey Jer Jer- sey soy cow and selling the butter to pleased customers No taste of turnips turnips turnips tur tur- nips is distinguish distinguishable ble We feed from a peck to a half half- bushel When one is dropped drop ed where the hens can get gett t Q it never remains long during the winter the poultry will eat large quantities of turnips and they thus cheaply supply the green vegetable ration so essential to good health Up to the last of February lebr ary I pulled up tops and roots from the patch and threw them into the poultry lot where the hens would crowd around tc et t a it share and it was surprising to io see see how how bow much they would eat a although well fed on mash and grain As to the horses I began by tossing a a. turnip into the feed box as I assed them which at first they would only sniff at and nose around round but It was not not long ng until I noticed the turnips h had d dW W disappeared by next feed fee time and soon soon the horses were ready to eat them then them with a a are re relish The hogs too will eat them but not with any avidity if otherwise well fed For the hogs I prefer to cook them If possible and mix them with shorts and bran Thus prepared they are eagerly eaten We also stir them cook cooked d soft Inthe in inthe the poultry mash of a morning Last year our turnips were raised along a fence row which was formerly occupied by a row of old pea peach h trees and blackberries It ft was thoroughly grubbed planted to early potatoes and then sown to turnips It made a fine crop We first pulled and pitted all the tho sized good-sized ones but left a a. large number number num num- ber her of small ones As the autumn was mild these little ones continued to grow until many of them were as large as the first crop In December we began pulling these and feeding tops and all to chickens and and cow and horses and we are able to continue this with a few days skipped for over six weeks Before this the off cut tops of ot those first pitted furnished feed for a surprising surprising surprising sur sur- time remaining fresh and green in piles on the ground All this has been said without mention mention men menn tion of the market value of turnip which by reason of its great yield is ia often considerable I have seen them grow grow at the rate rata of bushels to to the acre |