EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



375 



as well as they can ever be with the present kuk of equipment, and 

 temporarily at least, the work with this crop may as well be discon- 

 tinued. 



The yield of the varieties is shown in the following table: 



•ROWS OF PAR3NIP3 AND KOHL RABI EIGHTEEN INCHES APART, CARROTS, 

 SIXTEEN INCHES, ALL OTHERS TWO FEET. 



Varieties. 



Rutabagas.. 

 Turnips 



u 

 u 



M 

 U 



Carrots 



u 



Stock Beets. 

 Mangels • .. 



M 



Kohl Rabi.. 



Parsnips 



Table Beets 



Names. 



Monarch or Tankard 



Perfection White Swede 



Shepherd's Golden Globe 



Imp. Purple Top Yellow 



White Egg 



Extra Early White Milan 



Cow Horn 



Amber Globe CIsbell & Co.) 



Large AmV)er Globe (I). M. Ferry") 



Orange .lellv or Robertson's Golden Ball 



Purple Top" White fllobe 



Guerande or Ox Heart 



Chantenay 



Early Scarlet Horn 



Nantes Half Long Early 



Earliest Short Horn 



Maud S 



French White Sugar 



French Yellow Sugar 



Imp. Mammoth Long Red 



Orange Globe 



Yellow Leviathan 



Early White Vienna 



Early Purple Vienna 



Hollow Crown or Guernsey 



Long White Dutch or Sugar 



Edmand's Early Blood Turnip 



Extra Early Egyptian Blood Turnip 



Crosby's Eg>ptian 



Imp. Long Dark Blood 



Early Eclipse 



Chicago Market 



Length 

 of row 

 in feet. 



360 

 300 

 100 

 100 

 300 

 300 

 155 

 300 

 300 

 300 

 300 

 255 

 252 

 249 

 252 

 249 

 252 

 560 

 135 

 520 

 520 

 280 

 100 

 100 

 258 

 256 

 270 

 270 

 266 

 264 

 262 

 260 



Time 



of 



planting. 



May 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 19. 



" 19. 



" 19. 



" 19. 



" 19. 



" 19. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 23. 



" 23. 



" 19. 



" 19. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 20. 



" 19. 



" 19. 



" 19. 



Yield 



of plot 



in bushels. 



Yield 



per acre 



in bushels. 



18 

 12 



5} 



6i 



9 

 10 



9 

 10 

 15 



m 



14 

 5i 

 5i 

 5 



5i 

 4} 

 8f 



23 

 5h 



19 



m 



Oi 



3 



3i 



5i 



5i 



3i 



3f 



3} 



5i 



3i 



3J 



1,089 

 871 .20 



1,143.45 



1,415.70 

 653.40 

 726 



1.264.64 



1,161.60 



1,089 

 998.25 



1,016.40 

 672.61 

 712. S5 

 656.02 

 680.62 

 623.22 

 134.37 

 894.53 

 887.33 

 791 .9 i 

 816.75 

 738.96 

 871 .20 

 943.80 

 619.06 

 595.54 

 282.33 

 302. iO 

 266.10 

 453.75 

 290 .95 

 314.13 



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GARDEN VARIETIES— PE.\S IN 1905. 



The planting- of the varieties was unavoidably delayed, though none 

 could have been safely planted as early as during former years, owing 

 to the backwardness of the season. When the jiicking season of the late 

 varieties was nearly over, the effect of late i)lauting became manifest 

 by an outbreak of powdery mildew which favored by hot and dry 

 weather attacked all vines which were not fully ripened. As a conse- 

 (juence. the vines of late varieties which were left unpicked, did not 

 ripen their seed pods as well as during former seasons, thus suggesting 

 that inasmuch as ])laiitiiig duiiiig certain seasons may be delayed for 

 various reasons, the early varieties are by far the safest for the pur- 

 pose of raising seed. Tin's suggestion is mad<' while recognizing that 

 the average for growing seed peas in the I'lipcr Peninsula is increas- 

 ing very rapi<lly each yeai- and \\\\\ likely increase still more if the 

 use of varieties will be coiiiined to such as ripen their seesl before the 

 advent of hot weather. 



P^or (juality the ^\rinkl('d sorts are the best and aie also the most 

 ]»rolitic. This aj»|)]i«'s to the earliest, such as Aincrican Wonder, and 

 more so to the late varieties, sucli as Telcphoxr, which may well 1h", 



