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TUR ployed for transplanting other ve- getables TUR 2!:i La. B The handle A, must be held with the left hand ; and the short handle B, drawn up with the right. The transplanter should next be put over the vegetable in- tended to be taken up, and forced into the ground with the foot : it is then to be twisted round, and carefully drawn up, so that the earth may adhere to the root. A liole should; in the mean time; be made by an assistant, furnished with a similar instrument, for the reception of the turnip ; the root be conveyed in the first trans- planter ; and deposited in the ca- vity : after which, the right hanl being kept steady, the left must be gradually raised ; when the earth and plant will be left in the hole undisturbed. Turnips are subje6l to the de- predations of numerous inserts, and particixlarly to those of the follow- ing, namely : 1. The Black Canker ; which see. 2. The Black Fly; an inseft •which may be prevented from at- tacking turnips, by sowing them bet'een beans ; or, by adding one- fif;h part of radish-seed to the former, and rolling it into the ground. The steeping of turnip- seed in water, for 2-1 hours pre- viously to sowing, is likewise be- lieved to secure the future roots against injury ; but the most effi- cacious method appears to be that adopted by the late Earl of Or- FOKD (Annals of Agriculture, voL xiv.) : it simply consists in im- mersing the seed in train-oil, dur- ing the night before it is sown. The roots do not acquire any ill , taste J and seven gallons of such oil are stated to be sufficient few steeping a quantity of seed that will cover 200 acres. — See also vol. ii. p. 315. 3. The Slug, to which we refer. 4. The TVorm, an inseft feeding upon the root ; in consequence of wiiich, the plant gradually withers, and at length perishes. — No cer- tain remedy has been hitherto de- vised for destroying this depreda- tor j but it has been conjedtured, that its ravages may be prevented, by