PARSNIPS FOR STOCK.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 22 (Supplement)

PARSNIPS FOR STOCK.

For some reason or other the parsnip, which is most grown nowadays for human consumption only, seems to be out of favour as a farm crop. Apart from its heavy yield when well done, the parsnip is a desirable root to grow. It will thrive on any deeply cultivated soil, is not affected by extremes of weather to the same extent as most other roots, stands well, and will keep from one season to another. Stored in clamps like potatoes or carrots, parsnips are a very valuable stand-by during the spring months when other roots may be getting scarce, and they lose none -of their value by being stored. The old-time horse-keepers set great value upon them fts a substitute for carrots, and consider them almost the equal of the latter. The cultivation of the parsnip is much the same as that of the carrot, but the deeper the soil the better will it thrive. The seed invariably germinates well. Sowing in drills sufficiently wide apart to admit of hoeing is the common practice, and the crop needs no more -attention after thinning than keeping clean. —Stock Journal (London).