Turnips and Corn

Turnips and Corn

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

July 1875

Kelly Holler, Michelle Seref

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LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.1, no.1 (July 1875), p.8

A Westchester county (N.Y.) farmer is in the habit of sowing yellow Aberdeen turnips among his corn at the last passage of the cultivator, when the plants are about five feet in height. The turnips do not make much growth until the corn is cut, after which they swell rapidly. The cost is nothing except for seed and harvesting; corn, being already cut, is not injured when the turnips are gathered in. From one to four hundred bushels of turnips per acre have been thus obtained without lessening the corn crop. Weeds are note tolerated and the whole strength of the land is devoted, as it should be, to useful crops.