| Show I URGED TO GROW GROW MORE TURNIPS TURNIPS Excellent Crop to Utilize Waste Spaces in Garden Reasonably Rich Soil oll Is Essential Finely Raked and Leveled Off Oft if tt Avoid Water V Collecting In Little Pools Prepared y y 7 the United States State Department of Agriculture As a crop to utilize garden space after atter early carly vegetables have been harvested harvested har har- vested nothing Is better than th the turnip Turnips should be planted Inmost In Inmost Inmost most parts of the country about July 25 but In the extreme South as late as the last of August and can cnn be left leftIn leftin In the ground until after utter several light frosts or all winter In the South They Ther are useful as a table vegetable and to toa toa toa a limited extent will supply the place of potatoes It Is the general opinion of specialists of the United States De Department of Agriculture that the Amer Ar e 1 4 Y ican lean public could consume many more turnips than It does For field sowing turnips are usually broadcast The particular requirement requIrement require requIre- ment Is a reasonably rich soil soU finel finely raked and leveled Ic ore ofT to avoid water collecting In pools The seed should be sowed sparingly One homely rule Is to take the quantity which seems sufficient and divide It In half halt After Atter tho the seeds have been scattered on the surface of the ground they should be bewell bewell bewell well raked In This Tills may be done by dragging a n piece of brush over the ground The lObe surface should be bc well smoothed It Is a good plan to sow turnips Just after a rain giving them opportunity to S' S sprout rout before a n crust forms torms After Afler sowing they will need little UttIe attention until harvest |
