. Dry land farming. Dry farming. [from old catalog]. 306 DRY LAND FARMING. them. Carrots and mangels may be similarly loosened. They are then topped by hand and thrown in piles and covered with tops only until stored. Rutabagas and tur- nips are pulled by hand and thrown in heaps for topping, the same as carrots, described above. But in some in- stances they are topped with a hoe, pulled out of the ground with a heavy harrow, and are then lifted for storage. Kohlrabi may be harvested by first cutting off. DRY LAND TURNIPS, FLATHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA. Courtesy Great Northern Railw'ay Co. the part
. Dry land farming. Dry farming. [from old catalog]. 306 DRY LAND FARMING. them. Carrots and mangels may be similarly loosened. They are then topped by hand and thrown in piles and covered with tops only until stored. Rutabagas and tur- nips are pulled by hand and thrown in heaps for topping, the same as carrots, described above. But in some in- stances they are topped with a hoe, pulled out of the ground with a heavy harrow, and are then lifted for storage. Kohlrabi may be harvested by first cutting off. DRY LAND TURNIPS, FLATHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA. Courtesy Great Northern Railw'ay Co. the part above the bulb and then the stalk below the bulb with a strong and sharp hoe. All these may be stored in ventilated cellars or in pits. When storing them in pits the same process ma}' be followed as in pitting potatoes (see p. 296). In some instances mangels are harvested by swine, the portions left in the ground being raised for them by the plow or by a hand implement. Rutabagas, turnips and kohlrabi. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shaw, Thomas, 1843- [from old catalog]. St. Paul, Minn. , The Pioneer company
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