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White French sugar. Long Red Mangel. 
SUGAR BEETS AND STOCK BEETS. 
LONG RED MANGEL.—Largest and 
heaviest yielder in the South of all the 
Mangels. Roots grow from % to 2-3 above 
surface and usually 18 inches to 2 feet 
4 to 6 inches in diameter. 
CULTURE.—The soil for these should be 
Plowed more deeply and the drills should 
be farther apart than for garden beets. 
Sow in April or beginning of May in drills _ ree 
This is 
from 2 to 3 feet apart, and when 4 to 5 
inches high thin to 12 to 15 inches in the 
row. As soon as frost comes dig up the 
roots, cut off and then pile 5 to 6 feet 
deep on a raised and sloping situation and 
cover at frost with straw or hay and one 
inch of earth. As it gets colder, increase 
to 5 or 6 inches of earth; by so doing all 
danger of heating is obviated, and the 
roots keep until next summer. Four or 
five pounds are sown to the acre. Sugar 
beets are also used for stock feeding, and 
while not as large as the Mangels, they 
have a higher percentage of sugar. 
long; 
the best possible variety for you to plant. 
Packet, 5c.; oz., 10c.; % lb., 25c.; 1b., 75c.; 
5 lhs., $3.75, postpaid. 
GOLDEN TANEARD.—Yellow beet. The 
most prolific, very nutritious, one of the 
most profitable varieties for stock feeding. 
Packet, 5c.; oZ., 10c.; %4 Ib., 30c.; lb., 81.00; 
5 lbs., $4.50, postpaid. 
WHITE FRENCH SUGAR.—Largsest and 
best of the true Sugar Beets for the South. 
Especially valuable in fattening live stock 
of all kinds. Packet, 5c.; oz., 10c.; % Ihb., 
25c.; lb., 75c.; 5 lbs., $3.40, postpaid. 
CABBAGE. 
» CULTURE.—Cabbage requires a strong good soil and should be heavily fertilized 
or manure worked in well before transplanting. The best fertilizer for Cabbage should 
contain available Phosphoric Acid 7%, Potash 8% and Nitrogen 5%. To raise large 
Cabbage without good soil and without working the plants well is an impossibility. 
Cabbage is sown here almost every month of the year, but the seed for the main crop 
should be sown from July to September. For a succession seed can be sown till Novem- 
ber. The main crop for spring should be sown during November. Wakefield varieties 
should be sown a little earlier than the Succession, the latter kind not till November 
but in a frame, so the young plants can be protected against cold weather, which we 
generally have in December and January. After the middle of January setting out can 
be started. These early varieties of Cabbage require special fertilizing. Cabbage is one 
ef the best paying crops for the market gardener, but it requires more work and atten- 
tion than most people are willing to give to raise during the months of July and August. 
Plants raised in August are the surest to head here. Sow the seeds thinly in seed beds, 
and water several times during the day; the seed should not be allowed to get dry from 
the sowing of the seed till large enough to transplant. . There is no danger in doing this 
of scalding the plants; so treated they will be less liable to attack by cabbage flies. 
Tobacco dust and ‘‘Corona Arsenate of Lead Dry,’’ see page 92, scattered on the plants 
and in the walks between the beds prevent insects. One ounce to 3,000 plants, 5 ounces 
to the acre. Requires 90 to 120 days to mature. 
- PLANT FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS. 
For those who desire an early crop we strongly recommend the planting of Frost- 
Proof Cabbage Plants as described on Page 54 of this Catalogue. We begin making Fall 
shipments about December 15th, but when conditions are favorable we can ship as early 
as November 20th and up to May ist, This will enable the market gardener to have 
an early crop when prices are high, as well as to furnish early Cabbage for the home 
gardener’s table. 
