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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



VEGETABLE TESTS OF 1897. 



BY L. R. TAFT. H. P. GLADDEN AND M. L. DEAN. 



Bulletin 153. — Horticultural Department. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Beans 400 



Cucumbers 408 



Lettuce 409 



Peppers 411 



Tomatoes _ 412 



Page 



Cabbages 416 



Cauliflower 420 



Sweet Corn 421 



Peas 422 



Potatoes 424 



As in previous years we grew most of the new varieties sent out by the 

 seedsmen, as well as many of the standard sorts, and kept careful notes upon 

 their behavior. We also undertook quite a line of experiments in methods 

 of culture and the use of various fertilizers, particularly with potatoes and 

 celery, but the excessive rains during August so affected the results as to 

 make it impossible to draw correct conclusions. 



BUSH BEANS. 



Variety. 



Black Valentine 



Cream Valentine 



Firstin Market 



Fuller Black Wax 



Improved Goddard 



Lima Wax 



Refugee _ 



Otringless Green Pod... 

 Union White Valentine 



Vineless Marrow... 



Warren 



Yosemite Wax 



Byer'e One Bean 



Seedsman. 



Henderson 



it 



Landretb 



Gregory 



Ferry 



Dreer 



Livingston 



Burpee... 



Johnson & Stakes. 



Ferry. 



Gregory 



Johnson & Stokes. 

 Byer Bros 



Average 



weight 



of single 



pod. 



.162 

 .187 

 .111 

 .171 

 .180 



.093 

 .U.i 

 .169 

 .156 



.174 

 .112 

 .155 

 .169 



