EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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Sample N is a new variety, valuable for earliness, large size, and regular 

 form. 



Half-long Blood is an excellent variety of the long- rooted type. 

 Egyptian has very dark flesh, but is somewhat irregular in form, 

 Mitchell's Turnip is a distinct variety but not so early as claimed. 

 Red Beauty, valuable for bright r«d color of flesh and regular form. 



CABBAGES. 



The seeds for the comparative test of varieties were obtained from the 

 dealers whose names appear in the table. One hundred seeds were placed 

 in our seed tester, and the results were noted. 



On the 10th of March, 100 seeds of each variety were sown in shallow 

 cigar boxes, and the number vegetating will be found in one of the col- 

 umns of the table. Another column contains the number of days required 

 by each variety for vegetation, and a third notes the strength of the 

 plants. There is a striking correlation between these three columns. 



The plants were pricked out in flats on the 27th of March, and were 

 transplanted to the field on the 1st of May. Twenty-five plants of each 

 sort were set on land that had been used for strawberries, and that had 

 about twenty-five two-horse loads of stable manure plowed under in the 

 fall. As the heads matured they were cut from one half the plants, and 

 weighed, and the others were kept for noting the date of bursting, etc. 



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