18 D. M. FERRY&CO., DETROIT. MICH. 



SUGAR BEET 



Sugar Beets are desirable not only for the manufacture of sugar, 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 httle 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— There 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 

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

 best seeds that profitable sugar making 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 in 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 

 surface 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 discontinued 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 culti- 

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



BEETS FOR SUGAR MAKING 



Victrix is unquestionably the best strain of sugar 

 beet as grown by the most successful sugar beet 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 shoAv the greatest power to perpetuate their good qualities. Having obtained a supe- 

 rior beet, they skilfully 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 power 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 Yictrix in America. 

 Per Lb. 3oc; postpaid. Lots of 5 lbs. to 25 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. 



"\/ilmrkvin'c Irrtrwnixrf^A In general the most desirable beet for the sugar 

 V lllllOriO b linproVCU. 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; 

 % Lb. 15c; Lb. 35c. 



A little larger than Vilmorin's Improved and 



containing about the same amount 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.lOc; 2 Oz.lOc; ^ Lb. 15c; Lb.SSc. 



Jaensch's Victrix ttflfl 



Jaensch's Victrix 



Klein Wanzleben 



SUGAR BEETS FOR STOCK FEEDING 



By the same system of care- 

 ful selection and breeding 



Giant Feeding Sugar Beet, or Half Sugar Mangel 



Giant Feeding Sugar Beet, 



<rw*. Half ^nrrav IVIav^rs-Al '^'^liich has accomplished so much 

 or riair OUgar IViangei ^vlth the sugar Beet, there has been 

 e^taV)]ished in the Giant Feeding Sugar a strain of beets which, while 

 giMug nearly as large a yield of easily grown and harvested roots as a 

 Clop of Mangels, supplies a food of very much higher nutritive value. 

 The roots for feeding purposes are realij^ 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. groAv partly out of the ground and because 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; 

 2 Oz. 10c; ^ Lb. 15c; Lb. 35c. 



Royal Giant, or Half Sugar Rose higlfl ft 



nutritive 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, %vhite below. Pkt. 6c; Oz. 10c; 

 2 Oz. 10c; % Lb. 15c; Lb. 35c, 



French White Sugar Red Top Ij^ S^'sJil? 



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; 

 2 Oz. 10c; % Lb. 15c; Lb. 35c. 



Fr*>r(r>li V^llr»iA7 ^iiorni- Grows to a large siz6; root 



r rencn I eilOW OUgar i^alt long. vellow^ and sweet. 

 Excellent for stock feeding. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 2 Oz. 10c; 

 H Lb. 15c; Lb. 40c. 



