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CARTERS HOLBORN lIMVICTA SWEDE. 
“The best keeping: Swede ever introduced.” 
The general satisfaction expressed by our customers in all parts of the country shows that Carters Holborn 
Invicta is far superior in quality to any other variety of Swede, and still remains the most jiopular Swede in 
cultivation. 
At the Canadian Agricultural E.xperimental Station it has proved the heaviest in weight and most uniform 
in shape, and we now receive large orders for this variety from all parts of the World where Swedes are grown. 
Both at home and abroad it is considered the most consistent variety of any Swede, always growing true to 
type, and it has no equal either for high feeding value or for keeping qualities. This claim is fully borne out 
by the published results of the various tests carried out by County Councils and other public bodies, where it 
almost invariably heads the list in yield, weight, and feeding value, and it has been officially referred to as 
“ The best Swede that was ever introduced.” 
In the Midlands and western districts of England large acreages are grown, and wherever Swedes are 
grown Carters Holborn Invicta Swede is known as the highest type of Swede. 
The root is purplish-bronze in colour, and even shaped with a close set neck, w’hilst its feeding and keeping 
qualities are unapproached by any other variety. 
Medals, First Prizes, and other honours have been showered on this poi)ular Swede at all Agricultural 
Shows throughout the country. 
CARTERS HOLBORN INVICTA SWEDE FOR THE 
DAIRY FARMER. 
Each year we endeavour to improve the feeding (juality of this fine root, and we believe we have now 
increased the food solids to a higher degree than that of any other Swede. 
The three letters we jirint below amply prove that our endeavours to improve the feeding value of this 
Swede have met with practical success. 
“Your Holborn Invicta Swede certainly answers the description your representative gave of it. Being Dairy Farmers we 
consider that the most important feature of this .Swede is that it can be given to milking cows in any quantity without any complaint 
being made about the milk having .an objectionable flavour.” — B. & W. Hartop, Luton, March 6th, 1911. 
“The following may interest you, as it is remarkable evidence of the superiority of your Holborn Invicta Swede. I ordered, 
as I supposed, enough seed to sow fourteen acres, but it proved onlv sufficient for ten, so I bought from a local firm enough to sow 
the other four acre.s. The Invicta gave a fine crop, and were all pulled except three drills adjoining the four acre iiiece. This I fed 
oft' with ewes and lambs, the latter provided with lamlr hurdles so that they could get through and fatten on the greens, but not a 
green of the locally grown seed would they touch until they had not only consumed the green of the Invicta, but nearly the vr hole of 
the root.” — W. Cheriton, Henley-on-Thames, April 22nd, 1911. 
“ It is the best Swede I have over grown, and the best I have ever met with. You know that my Mangel crop (not Carters) 
was a complete failure last year, and I had to feed my dairy cows on Swedes, giving them about 46 lbs. each per day. Well, all 
that quantity of Swedes (Carters Invicta) did not taint the milk, not in the very least. My two dairymen could detect no turnipy 
taste or smell in the milk, and they would hardly believe me when 1 told them how my cows had been fed for three months — till the 
beginning of February. When the Swedes were finished I had to buy Mangels, and immediately I started feeding on them, giving 
the same weight per cow, the milk dropped three gallons, the other foods being the same. The milk did not rise again, so I 
concluded that the.se Swedes are belter for milk production than Mangels. A neighbour of mine has grown your Holborn Invicta 
Swedes these last two years, and cracks them up as being the best for sheep and for market.” — Jas. A. Osuornk, May 3rd, 1909. 
Such .spontaneity of expression as the above is a greater proof of the merits of Holborn Invicta Swede 
than any words we could mention, and these letters arc only examples of hundreds received by us, all testifying 
to the excellent properties of this popular Swede. 
CARTERS HOLBORN INVICTA.— Our ennobled strain, selected under the 
“ Carter ” method to ensure maximum quality with maximum quantity (see jtage 8 ). 
1 lb. 7 lbs. 14 lbs. 28 lbs. Bushel (52 lbs.). 
1/6 9/6 18/6 36/6 70 /- 
Sow 4 lbs. per acre. 
Raynes Park, London, S.W.— 1913. 
