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■upon a secure basis, the conclusions which we have found 
demonstrably clear and certain. 
One result of our labours we hope will prove to 
be to increase the range of root crops available for 
farmers who are at present suffering- under limit- 
ations. In some parts of the United Kingdom for instance, the 
•cultivation of the Mangel is neglected, owing to the belief that it 
is not naturally suited to the situation. If by reducing the watery 
tendency and reinforcing its nutritive properties, it comes to be 
looked upon with favour, and proves to be of utility in localities 
where at the present time it is neglected, we shall have done 
something to place in the hands of a large number of farmers 
a root crop which is second to none in service to the stock-feeder, 
and although the road which leads to such results may be long 
and laborious, we shall not desist in our work. 
We do not claim to have made a discovery. All we claim is to 
have given a practical turn to proved scientific facts, and, having 
applied them in the arena of everyday practical agriculture, we 
lay before agriculturists generally the material advantages which 
must and will inevitably accrue therefrom. 
There is no finality in nature, there is no finality 
in science, and while we shall continue to re-select our 
roots year by year for size, weig-ht, form, and texture, 
we shall do so in conjunction with the new system 
which embodies the principle of highest food production 
and which we have in the last few years proved to ourselves 
to give promise of great results in increasing the nutritious 
matter in the roots, in inducing upon them habits of growth, 
and in stimulating their powers of yielding intrinsically valuable 
food, which they possess by nature in a latent form, so that while 
maintaining their present enormous size and proportions they will 
increase the food they yield. 
Service of untold value has been rendered by such skilful 
scientists as Anderson, Lawes, Voelcker, Aitken, and Dyer, 
besides others, who have devoted years of labour to the cause 
of Agricultural Chemistry. These talented and conscientious 
scientists have rendered accessible information which is of the 
most intrinsic worth to the farmer to-day and yet was not 
dreamed of by previous generations, and their analytical 
researches into the feeding values of roots do not form the least 
of the services they have rendered. 
It is for the agriculturist of to-day to profit by the research 
of the scientist of yesterday, and to apply with the same 
perseverance and patience to the problems of every-day practical 
farming those lessons and those facts which have been brought 
to light for his special benefit. In other words, the agriculturist 
should, with the aid of the expert seed grower, begin where the 
scientist leaves off. 
It was in this spirit as Seed Growers that we 
commenced these operations, have continued them 
up to the present time, and shall proceed with them 
year by year, satisfied that each step gained will be 
but a fresh starting point for new achievements 
in the future. 
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After a series of experiments, including every variety of feeding roots of any repute, 
we have been able, for the first time, to determine their relative values under our new 
analytical method, on the principle of “highest food value,” and have selected for perpetuating 
purposes those which embody the strongest combination of specific gravity of the 
entire root, representing the keeping quality; specific gravity of the juice, 
representing the feeding value (albumen carbo. hydrates) ; highest percentage of 
sugar and allied compounds; digestible solids; and the least percentage 
of water. 
We now give our customers the advantage of this selection, and we offer, so long as the 
very limited supply at our disposal lasts, the identical stocks so selected, each of which is an 
advanced type of its race when judged from these vital standpoints of quality and value. 
It will be observed that we associate our name with each as the introducers, and we 
combine therewith the date of introduction : — 
The 1901 Carter Mangel price per lb. 
The 1901 Carter Swede „ 
The 1901 Carter Yellow Turnip „ 
The 1901 Carter White Turnip ,, 
The 1901 Carter Field Carrot „ 
The 1901 Carter Kohl Rabi (stock too small to offer this season). 
s. d. 
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2 6 
2 6 
2 6 
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CARTERS’, 237, 238, & 97, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. -1901. 
