Experimental plots of turnips gave sixteen tons to the acre, and white carrots twelve tons.
One cauliflower weighed eight pounds, half a dozen turnips weighed nine pounds each, and twenty table beets would easily average six pounds each.
Potatoes eighteen inches high and peas twice the height of this, with turnips and cabbages and cauliflower are good to look at.
Turnips be stewed," yelled Bill in such a tremendous voice that he blew his own hat off.
To be sure," said Henderson, "but the turnipsare backward.
Only I maun again say, that I had no wish or inclination whatever to see you toiling and thinning turnips beneath a burning sun, or maybe taking them up and shawing them, when the cauld drift was cutting owre the face keener than a razor.
There is a comparatively small export, except in the case ofturnips and potatoes and of vegetables which have been canned or dried.
The British agriculturist thinks that meadow hay is the natural forage for horses and cattle, and for winter turnips are the standby.
I know not what dish we should have relished better than our turnips and chestnuts.
I first become aware of myself, down in Essex, a-thieving turnips for my living.
You never by a chance remove it; it never by a chance falls off; and I know no more of you.
He who sees nothing but the gathering of turnips will think of nothing but turnips.
Then the man said that didn't matter, as he had more turnips than he knew what to do with.
Well, one of the turnips fell off, and a boy, who was riding on the wagon, called to the man who was driving, and told him about the turnip falling.
In the small enclosure beyond he stopped to nibble one of the turnips growing there, but so nervous was he that the pigeon drinking at the woodland pool does not raise its head more often than he.
On gaining the hedge-top they stood scrutinising the rows of turnips as if they expected to see the game there; and very odd they looked standing side by side on their hind legs, their eyes shining like glow-worms.
The sight of the turnipsgladdened his eyes, for he had gleaned little on the closely browsed grass-land and was very hungry.
When it boils, skim free from fat, season to the palate, and stew the turnips till done.
THE duck to be boned, braised, and served up in the same manner as the above, but instead of turnips put cucumber sauce, or peas, as for veal tendrons.
TAKE clean turnips and carrots, and scoop or cut them into shapes, some celery heads cut about two inches long, button onions peeled, some dry or green morells, and artichoke bottoms cut into pieces.
Add to them a small quantity of benshamelle, and then cut some moreturnips in shapes as for a haricot.
CUT celery heads two inches long, turnips and carrots into shapes, some peeled button onions or two Spanish onions, artichoke bottoms cut into quarters, pieces of cauliflowers or heads of broccoli, and heads of large asparagus.
Then wipe it quite dry, take off the rind, glaize the top part, and serve it up on a large dish with stewed spinach on one side and mashed turnips on the other.
One day a witty woman said of a man that "he played the politician about turnips and cabbages.
Storm is a word that an old salt reserves for one of those hurricanes that blow a field of turnips flat, and teeth down your throat.
This is an excellent sauce to use over new potatoes or diced vegetables, such as turnips or carrots.
In food value, turnips are similar to beets, carrots, and parsnips.
These are salted turnips of a brown, leathery look, and the most popular, because very cheap, of all the various articles that the Chinese eat with their rice.
Well, the wise little pig got up at five, scampered away to the field, and brought home a fine load of turnips before the wolf came.
Why, I have been to the field and come back long ago, and now I am busy boiling a potful of turnips for breakfast.
Turnips are stolen by car-loads, and two acres of wheat plucked off in a night.
Upon my arrival at the castle, I was most agreeably saluted with four men hoeing a field of turnips round it, as a preparation for grass.
Landlord, he saw his tenant once or twice when he was hoeing his turnipsand passed the time of day, and landlord's wife wore her new brooch to church every Sunday.
Landlord's field wasn't a penny the worse for the visit, but they do say that since then the turnips that have been grown in it have tasted of rum.
And then I found myself walking across the turnips with parson, and I was telling him of the glories of the deep that I had seen through the window of the ship.
Spence's Observations on the Disease in Turnips called Fingers and Toes.
From the knob-like galls on turnips called in some places the anbury, I have bred another of these weevils, (Curculio pleurostigma, Marsh.
Dito cause for carrots and beets and turnips and cabbige and potatoes.
I'll walk down the turnips with you, on my way to the house.
Almost at the end of the turnips the dog made a very decided point.
Anyone stealing or maliciously pulling up or destroying any turnips on a person's land must pay damages or go to gaol for up to one month.
Now noblemen talked about manure and drainage, rotation of crops, clover, and turnips instead of hunting, horses, and dogs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turnips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
