"A good crop of white globe turnips weighs from 30 to 40 tons per imperial acre." Of all kinds of turnips, therefore, from 30 to 40 tons per imperial acre are a good crop. The readers of agricultural journals must have observed that, of late years, the results of numerous series of experiments have been published. Among those that have been made upon turnips, he will have noticed also that the crop, in about nine cases out of ten, is under twenty tons; that these crops vary, for the most part, between nine and sixteen tons; and that some farmers are not ashamed to publish to the world, that they are content with crops of from seven to ten tons of turnips an acre. Where is our skill in the management of turnip soils, if, in the average of years, such culture and crops satisfy any considerable number of our more intelligent tenantry? We know that soil, and season, and locality, and numerous accidents, affect the produce of this crop; but the margin between the _actual_ and the _possible_ is far too wide to be accounted for in this way. More skill, more energy, more expenditure in draining, liming, and manuring--a wider diffusion of our practical and scientific agricultural literature--these are the means by which the wide margin is to be narrowed; by which what is in the land is to be brought _out_ of the land, and thereby the farmer made more comfortable, and the landlord more rich. The subject of sheep and cattle feeding is very important, and very interesting, and our book is rich in materials which would provoke us to discuss it at some length, did our limits admit of it. We must be content, however, with a few desultory extracts. The following, in regard to sheep feeding upon turnips, is curious, and, in our opinion, requires repetition:--