Show GROW TWO CROPS OF TURNIPS IN GARDEN tops make excellent greens in southern states if sown in drills soil may be stirred between rows and plants plant kept growing rapidly will stand considerable cold prepared by the united states department of agriculture turnips are one of the most moat universally sally grown of all garden crops in the northern states turnips are planted in midsummer and stored for winter use in the southern states they are planted early in spring for early summer use also in the fl all ull for use during the winter turnip tops make excellent winter greens throughout the greater part 0 of the southern states for early spring culture it is cu customary tomary to sow the seed in drills about a foot apart and thin the plants to about three inches in the drill by this method 4 i an excellent type of turnips the soil may be stirred between the rows and the plants kept growing rapidly so as to attain reasonable size before the heated beate 1 I term of early summer sets in in the north it is customary to sow the seed broadcast about the ol of july on oil land from which e early a aly peas early potatoes or some other early crop has been removed the land Is raked smooth and the small seeds simply scattered over the surface then covered by again raking the soil no cultivation cultivation is required where the seeds are sown broadcast in the southern states turnips are frequently destroyed by plant lice that suck the juices of the leaves these insects are rather difficult to control spraying with nicotine preparations being about the only remedy turnips stand considerable cold but those that are to be placed in pits or in the cellar tor for winter use should not be allowed to freeze before being stored if they become frozen in storage they should not be disturbed until they thaw naturally |