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Jaensch's Victrix 



D. M. FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



SUGAR BEET 



Sugar Beets are desirable not only for the manufacture of su^ar, but are invaluable for 

 stock feeding and table use. The best soil is a rich, friable sandy, or clayey loam. Rich, mucky 

 soils will often give an immense yield of roots which, though excellent for feeding are of little 

 value for sugar making. 



MANURE— Sugar Beets do much better when the soil has been made rich for a preceding 

 crop than when the fertilizers are applied the same season. If the condition of the ground 

 necessitates the use of a fertilizer the current season, the greatest care should be taken to 

 have it evenly and thoroughly mixed with the surface soil. 



SEED— Thei*e is no crop where the quality of the seed used is of greater importance than 

 this. A great deal of most patient and skillful labor has been expended in establishing and de- 

 veloping strains of beets which are adapted to sugar making. It is only by the use of the best 

 seeds that profitable sugar »i(thiiig is possible. The seed may be planted any time from the 

 middle of April to the last of 3Iay, the soil having been thoroughly prepared. 



■ PLANTING AND CULTIVATING.— Plant iu drills twenty to thirty inches apart, twelve to 

 twenty seeds to the foot. This will require from ten to fifteen pounds of seed to the acre. It 

 is very important that the seed should be well covered with one inch of soil pressed firmly over 

 it. As soon as the plants are up they should be cultivated frequently so as to keep the sur- 

 face soil loose and destroy the starting weeds. When the beets are about two or three inches 

 high they should be thinned six to ten inches apart in the row and cultivation should be dis- 

 continued as soon as the roots have commenced to form. Often a crop is injured by late 

 cultivation which starts the plants into fresh growth. Sugar beets ripen as distinctly as do 

 potatoes or corn, the outer leaves turn yellowish and the tops seem to decrease in size owing 

 to the curling of the central leaves. They should be gathered then and stored, for if left they 

 may start into fresh growth which lessens the proportion of sugar. The successful cultivation 

 of beets rich in sugar requires rotation of crops, however rich and good the soil may be. 



SUGAR BEETS— For Sugar Making 



» 19\T».» Jaensch's Victrix is Unquestionably the Best Strain of 



•JS.6IlSdl S V ICtirilC Sugar Beet as grown by the most successful Sugar Beet 

 vM.^««o^«A w T A^i.A *-«. experts in the world, Gustav Jaensch & Co. This firm has 

 worked for many years in the midst of the best sugar beet growers and factories in Germany 

 and Mr. Jaensch himself has devoted years of careful study to determining what a sugar 

 beet should be and how it may be produced. Jaensch & Co. select each year a few of the 

 best specimens and from these they select those which show the greatest power to perpetuate 

 their good qualities. Having obtained a superior beet, they skillfully increase the stock and 

 are able to offer seeds by the ton, every one of which is the direct descendant in the second or 

 third generation of a single beet. Not only do Jaensch & Co. produce the best seed grown but before sending it out 

 they submit it to a process by which the Germinating Powsr is conserved and its ability to resist the attacks of insects 

 and diseases increased. Often this special treatment enables growers to get a good stand when all other seeds fail. 

 We have been appointed sole agents for the sale of Jaensch's Victrix in America. Per Lb. 35c; postpaid. Lots of 

 5 lbs. to 35 lbs. by express, at purchaser's expense, 35c. per lb. Original sealed sacks, weighing about 110 lbs. 

 each, $17.50 per sack f. o. b. Detroit. 



In general the most desirable beet for the sugar 

 factory is the one containing the largest percent- 

 age of sugar. In this variety we have one of the richest sorts in cultivation and 

 moreover it will do better on new lands than any other variety, suffer less from 

 an excess of nitrogen and will keep the best. In size it is medium or a little below, 

 yielding from ten to sixteen tons per acre and containing, under favorable con- 

 ditions, as high as eighteen per cent of sugar. Pkt. 5c: Oz. 10c; 3 Oz. 10c; 

 H Lb. 15c; Lb. 35c. 



JJ^J • WT 1 1 A little larger than Vilmoi'in's Improv- 



.^16111 WSLllZlfiadl 6d and containing about the same 



A^AXxUA T » MAji^jL^K^wjiA ^mouut of sugar. Its yield of beets is 



from twelve to eighteen tons per acre. A little hardier and easier grown 



than Vilmorin's Improved. Probably the best sort for the experimenter 



to use. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 3 Oz. 10c; h Lb. 15c; Lb. 35c. 



SUGAR BEETS-For Stock Feeding 



Giant Feeding Sugar Beet, IS^syeX/^fnT SUi^, 



r\v Half ^iirrav 1\/fanrrAl which has accomplished so much 

 or r:iair OUgar IViangei with the Sugar Beet, there has been 

 estabhshed in the GIANT FEEDING SUGAR a strain of beets which, 

 while giving nearly as large a yield of easily grown and harvested roots 

 as a crop of Mangels, supplies a food of very much higher nutritive 

 value. The roots for feeding purposes are really more valuable, pound 

 for pound, than those of the very best strains of sugar beet and the 

 yield under equally favorable conditions is more than double. The 

 roots are light bronze green, grow partly out of the ground and be- 

 cause of this and their shape the crop can be harvested and 

 stored easily and at less expense than any other root crop. 

 Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 3 Oz. 10c; h Lb. 15c; Lb. 35c. 



Royal Giant, or Half Sugar Rose tghStr^- 



tritive value for feeding. Somewhat egg-shaped and growing 

 half out of the ground it is very easily harvested. Quite simi- 

 lar to Giant Feeding Sugar except color of skin which is bright 

 rose above ground, white below. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 

 a Oz. lOc; h Lb. 15c; Lb. 35c. 



French White Sugar Red Top S?h fn'^Sgl? 



that it is sometimes grown for sugar factories. We recommend 

 it as a most profitable crop for feeding stock. The numerous 

 green leaves are erect and the elongated, egg-shaped root is 

 tinged with red at the top. Very hardy and productive, yield- 

 ing about twenty tons to the acre. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 

 3 Oz. 10c; H Lb. 15c; Lb. 35c. 



Vilmorin's Improved 



French Yellow Sugar ^TiVi yViS^aXIwS* 



Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 8 Oz. 10c; 



Giant Feeding Sugar Beet, or Half Sugar Mangel 



Excellent for stock feeding. 

 h Lb. 15c; Lb. 40c. 



