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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Orange Jelly. — Nearly globe-shaped and light orange colored. Of very good 

 quality when used before full grown and will keep much longer than the white 

 or common purple top varieties. 



'New Japanese Tennoji. — A white variety of poor shape and worse quality. 

 Perhaps the seed was poor, as all ran to seed before being more than half full 

 grown. 



Scarlet Kashmyr. — The bright scarlet and white coloring makes this an attrac- 

 tive looking variety. The white flesh is very firm and crisp, but neither juicy 

 nor very sweet. 



Coiv Horn. — Grows to large size and cow horn fashion, single specimens some- 

 times exceeding two feet in length and three to six inches in diameter. Is used 

 for stock and frequently as an orchard cover. Including tops, the yield would 

 probably exceed 40 tons of vegetable matter per acre, though 90 per cent of this 

 would of course be water. 



Purple Top Yelloio Aberdeen. — Round, globe-shaped and slightly flattened with 

 small tap root. Skin yellow, shaded with crimson and dark purple on top. 

 Flesh light yellow, juicy and fairly sweet. Fit for table use until late fall and 

 will grow to large size. 



PARSNIPS. 



Lotig White Dutch or Sugar. — Long tapering root, holding its size fairly well. 

 Slightly hollow crowned. Flesh sweet and of good quality. 



Improved Guernsey. — Medium long and rather abruptly tapering root. Some- 

 what smaller than the last but of equally good quality. 



The yields of all varieties tested are shown in the following table: 



Varieties. 



Turnip— Rnrly Bay City 



" Milk Globe 



" New Japanese Tennoji 



" Scarlet KashmjT 



Orange Jelly 



' Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen 



" Cow Horn 



" White Flat Strap Leaf 



" Purple Top Strap Leaf 



Rutabaga — Monarch or Tankard 



Shephard's Golden Globe 



" Imiiroved Yellow Mammoth 



" White Swede or Sweet Russian Turnip 



" Improved Purple Top 



" Ciirter's Elephant 



" Mammoth Russian 



Table Carrot — Long Lemon Stump-rooted 



Selected Danvcrs 



" Improved Long Orange 



* Chantenay 



" Earliest Short Horn 



Stock Carrot — Mastodon 



I>ar(ic White Holgian 



Mangel — Improved Mammoth Long Red (D. M. Ferry) 



" (Northrop, King Co) 



" Giant Holstein 



Stock Beet — Giant Feeding Sugar Mangel 



Parsnip — Improved duernscy 



" Long White Dutch or Sugar 



Table Beete— Chicago Market 



New Half Long Blood 



Extra Early Egyptian Blood Turnip 



Bastian's I".arly Turnip 



Crosbp's Egyptian 



" Long Dark Blood , 



Size of 

 plot, in 

 rods. 



ix6 

 4x6 

 ix6 

 ix6 

 4x6 



1x6 

 4x6 

 4x6 

 4x6 

 ix6 



tx6 

 }x6 

 5x6 

 4x6 

 4x6 

 5.4x4 



4x6 

 4x6 

 4x6 

 4x6 

 4x6 



4x6 

 3.16x6 

 ix6 

 ix6 

 4x6 

 4x6 

 ix6 

 4x6 

 |x6 



4x6 

 4x6 

 1.12x6 

 4xa 

 4x6 



Time of 

 planting. 



May 25. 



" 26. 



" 26. 



" 27. 



" 27. 



" 22 



" 2l'. 



" 27. 



" 27. 



" 00 



" 25. 



" 26. 



" 26. 



" 26. 



" 26. 



" 30. 



" 23. 



" 23. 



" 13. 



" 13. 



" 13. 



" 13. 



" 13. 



" 22. 



" 26. 



" 26. 



" 25. 



" 25. 



" 25. 



" 23. 



" 26. 



" 26. 



" 26. 



" 13. 



" 14. 



Yield of 

 plot, in 

 bushels. 



Yield per 

 acre, in 

 bushels. 



114 



12 



3 



5 

 124 



144 



64 



3 



4 

 14 I 



9 



84 

 144 



11 

 Hi 



74 



34 

 34 



If 

 1} 

 14 



34 

 5 

 94 

 5 

 64 

 12 



it 



74 



8 



7i 

 1 



3 

 3i 



4S0 



640 



320 



266f 



5221 



515& 

 1,3334 

 (i40 

 8534 

 497( 



3S4 



604$ 



618f 



586} 



626§ 



480 



3734 

 34 6J 

 352 

 352 

 320 



7461 



711J 



337S 



355( 



3464 



512 



3734 



360 



221 



426§ 



4134 



320 



480 



5G0 



