text: ) In his excellent chapter on the sowing of turnips he quotes several instances of the successful preparation of land in the autumn--breaking up harrowing cross-ploughing drilling and dunging--for the turnip crop and he adds the following opinion:-- "Were such modes of culture adopted in the south of England I have no doubt certain and abundant crops of turnips would be raised in spite of droughts and insects; and the slovenly practice of broad-cast culture would then give way to the more scientific mode of the drill system