. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1917, an. This leaves a narrowrow from four to six inches wide and from two to four inches above the ordinarylevel of the ground. The scuffling is never done very far ahead of the hoeing as itis much easier to hoe when the ground has been just newly scuffled. In hoeingturnips we always make it a point to shove out the extra number of turnips, and indoing this it is very important that all the ground is broken with the hoe as thiswill check any small weeds that have started. If the turnips are just the right sizeit will be found in hoeing that when the hoe
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1917, an. This leaves a narrowrow from four to six inches wide and from two to four inches above the ordinarylevel of the ground. The scuffling is never done very far ahead of the hoeing as itis much easier to hoe when the ground has been just newly scuffled. In hoeingturnips we always make it a point to shove out the extra number of turnips, and indoing this it is very important that all the ground is broken with the hoe as thiswill check any small weeds that have started. If the turnips are just the right sizeit will be found in hoeing that when the hoe is shoved through the plants oneindividual plant will drop on the part that has been newly broken with the hoe andthis makes it easy to single out the turnips. Moreover, we find that when the turnipplant drops over and lies flat on the ground that it is not injured. We also findthat when the turnips are well hoed the first time it is not necessary to hoe themagain, but it will be necessary to have them scuffled at least two or three Picture showing our turnip field late in July, just before the fprest fire. The bush inthe back ground was burned but the turnips and potatoe^emained untouched. The above methods will serve to show the manner in which we handled our this year. It is the regular method of all good farmers in the turnip sectionsof western Ontario. Never before in the history of the Farm have we had such an enormous cropof turnips as we had this year. It was a common thing to find turnips weighingeight or ten pounds apiece. The crop was uniform over the whole patch, and scoresof people who visited it declared that they had never seen a better crop of turnipsanywhere. Several farmers declared that we had the best crop of turnips in theProvince, and it may just be possible that they were not very far wrong, for insumming up our results we found that we had a little better than 1,000 bushels tothe acre. During the early part of July our turnip patch was
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