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BULLETIN 1427, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Muskmelons: Emerald Gem. 
Onions: Southport Yellow Globe, Australian Brown. 
Parsnips: Improved Guernsey. 
Peas, smooth — Alaska; wrinkled — Notts Excelsior. 
Peppers: Ruby King. 
Potato: Early Ohio. 
Pumpkin: Small Sugar. 
Rutabagas: Golden Neckless. 
Spinach: Victoria. 
Squashes, summer — Cocozelle; winter — Golden Hubbard. 
Sweet corn: Golden Bantam. 
Tomato: Sunny brook Earliana. 
Watermelons: Fordhook Early. 
Fig. 3- — Onions, parsnips, carrots, beets, rutabagas, eggplants, and tomatoes in the root-crop plat of 
the acre garden on July 25, 1924 
EXPERIMENTAL DATA 
The experimental data from the acre rotation garden at the field 
station for the five years from 1920 to 1924, inclusive, are given in 
Table 3. This table gives, for each vegetable each year, the variety, 
the date of planting, the length of row or number of hills, the planting 
distance, the stand, the date when first ready for use, the total yield, 
.and the rate of yield per 100 feet of row or 10 hills. 
Asparagus, rhubarb, spinach, lettuce, radishes, and celery do not 
appear in this table. They were grown each year with excellent 
results, but the yields were not determined, and only notes as to season 
and quality were taken on them. 
During the five years there were some slight deviations from a 
uniform plan. These were owing to a few experimental investigations, 
principally a search for a good winter-keeping variety of cabbage, 
and to the addition of peppers and eggplant, which were not at first 
included in the vegetable list. The list of varieties employed in 1923 
and 1924 is now considered the most satisfactory available, and its 
use will be continued. 
