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BULLETIN 1427, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
Table 5. — Rate of yield per 100 feet of row or 10 hills' {vine crops) of each vegetable 
and variety in the acre garden at the Northern Great Plains Field Station,' Mandan, 
'N. Dak., for each of the years from 1920 to 1924, inclusive 
Vegetable, class, and variety 
Unit of 
measure 
Rate of yield 
1920 
1921 
1922 
1923 
1924 
Beans, shell: 
Pilot 
Pounds 
...do 
6.6 
6.8 
24.1 
13.T 
2L9~ 
46.9 
68.1 
0) 
101.0 
60.9 
1.3 
8.3 
7.3 
8.6 
Great Northern . 
Beans, wax: 
Saddleback (first planting) . 
Quarts 
...do 
...do 
1.6 
3.8 
3.8 
4.1 
52.5 
38.8 
59.1 
13.1 
37.2 
32.2 
24.1 
23.8 
30.9 
Saddleback (second planting) 
Kidney (first planting) 
41.9 
32.2 
Kidney (second planting) 
White .* 
...do 
. do 
29.1 
Beets, early: 
Eclipse __ . . . . . 
Pounds 
...do 
...do 
...do 
...do 
...do. 
...do 
. do 
48.8 
64.7 
170.0 
55.6 
89.1 
153.1 
83.8 
174.4 
438.1 
241.3 
191.9 
59.4 
131.3 
87.5 
23.8 

110.9 
Beets, winter: 
Detroit Dark Red 
Cabbage, early: 
Copenhagen Market 
Jersey Wakefield 
Cabbage, fall: 
Copenhagen Market 
Enkhuizen Glory 
191.6 
331.3 
115.0 
270.0 
280.0 
Autumn King 

do 
201.3 
Carrots, Chantenay: 
do 
228.8 
214.4 
116.3 
84.4 
50.6 
118.8 
190.0 
80.0 
2.5 

37.5 
Midseason planting 
...do 
...do 
45.3 
94.4 
103.8 
17.5 

76.3 
67.5 
Cauliflower, early: 
Burpee's Best Early 
Cauliflower, fall: 
...do 
do 
28.8 
5.0 
66.3 
Dry Weather ... ... . ... 
.. do 
57.5 
Cucumbers: 
Fruits 
30.0 
Fordhook Famous. ... . .. 
53.6 
100.7 
428.7 
70.0 
181.3 
60.7 
148.0 
100.0 
Eggplant: 
11.3 
Do 
17.5 
Muskmelons: 
Emerald Gem _. 
Fruits 
Pounds 
18.0 
18.7 
30.0 
28.0 
32.7 
25.8 
60.4 
104.7 
14.1 
22.2 
13.8 
12.0 
Do 
22.0 
Onions: 
. do 
21.1 
23.5 
20.9 
4.4 
4.6 
Southport Yellow Globe 
Parsnips: 
...do 
...do 
20.2 
30.3 
7.5 
3.4 
4.4 
75.7 
140.6 
12.2 
16.3 
12.5 
67.9 
134.1 
Peas: 
Quarts 
...do 
...do 
Fruits 
27.5 
Notts Excelsior (first planting) 
Notts Excelsior (second planting)... 
Peppers: 
Ruby King 
22.2 
23.8 
223.8 
Do 
35.0 
Potatoes: 
Early Ohio ... . 
—do 
64.5 
240.0 
84.4 
18.7 
( 2 ) 
232.9 
46.9 
4.3 
78.1 
232.5 
93.8 
40.0 
79.0 
214.3 
156.3 
14.0 
41.0 
204.3 
71.9 
57.9 
163.5 
75.0 
74.2 
Pumpkin: 
...do 
457.5 
Rutabagas: 
...do 
142.8 
Squash, summer: 
Cocozelle 
Fruits 
24.0 
Do 
93.0 
Squash, winter: 
...do.. 
530.4 
3 9.5 
95.4 
153.3 

2.3 
36.7 
73.8 
200.0 
54.7 
54.7 
198.8 
250.0 
321.4 
Sweet corn: 
Golden Bantam (first planting) 
Golden Bantam (second planting) _. 
Tomatoes: 
Earliana ... ... ... 
Ears 
...do 
Pounds... 
...do 
96.1 
113.4 
140.0 
Watermelons: 
Fordhook Early 
104 2 
1 Copenhagen Market and Jersey Wakefield raised in 1920, but yields were not determined separately. 
2 Good yield of potatoes in 1921, but the record was lost. 
3 Yields from two plantings not determined separately. 
4 Good yield of watermelons in 1921, but the crop was stolen. 
