JEROME B. RICE SEED COMPANY, CAMBRIDGE, N. Y. 
MANGEL-WURZEL AND SUGAR BEETS 
Culture .— The following varieties are extensively grown for feeding stock, and are excellent food to increase the 
flow of milk. As they grow much larger than the varieties cultivated for table use, they require more room, and 
should be sown in drills about 2 feet apart. The seeds should be dropped about 2 inches apart in the drills, and 
when strong enough, thinned out to 12 to 15 inches in the row. The long varieties are best suited to a deep soil, and 
the globe sorts succeed better than the long sorts on sandy soil. 
6 pounds of seeds will sow an acre 
Mammoth Prize Long Red 
Giant Half Sugar Rose (Feeding Sugar). A most 
valuable, large yielding variety for feeding; roots 
oval-shaped; skin rose colored, flesh white. Has a 
larger sugar content and feeding value than most 
beets of its class. 
Giant Sludstrup (Yellow Intermediate). A long, red¬ 
dish-yellow, ovoid root, growing more than half 
above, ground and is easily harvested. By analysis 
far excels any other variety in weight and feeding 
value. 
Golden Tankard. A very popular, large, heavy yield¬ 
ing variety with nearly cylindrical, orange-yellow 
roots. 
Long Red Mammoth Prize. An old, popular sort, 
attaining a large size; roots nearly cylindrical in 
shape. 
Sugar, Klein Wanzleben. Largest yielding and one of 
the best for sugar making. 
Sugar, Lane’s Imperial. A white fleshed sugar beet 
used largely for stock feeding. 
Sugar, Vilmorin’s Improved. An improved type of 
sugar beet used extensively for making beet sugar. 
CAULIFLOWER 
Culture.— When grown to perfection, this is a most delicious vegetable, and well repays generous treatment in 
cultivation. With a deep rich soil and an abundance of moisture, which in dry seasons must be applied artificially, 
Cauliflower can be grown well. The cultivation is similar to that of cabbage. For early fall crops, sow in May, and 
transplant in June, in rows 4 feet apart, setting the plants 2 feet apart in the row; water frequently if the ground be 
dry. Frequent hoeing and a liberal supply of rich liquid manure, to keep up a continuous and rapid growth, will 
produce splendid heads of the most delicate flavor. It facilitates blanching if the leaves are gathered loosely together 
and tied over the top of the head to protect from the sun. Cut before the flowers begin to open. Sow as late as 
June 20 for late crops, in beds or in hills, covering Yl inch deep. 
One ounce will sow a bed of 40 square feet, and produce about 3,000 plants 
Early Favorite. A rather large growing early 
sort, forming large, solid heads even under 
unfavorable conditions. 
Henderson’s Early Snowball. Undoubtedly the 
earliest, best and most popular variety either 
for the home or market garden. The medium 
sized snow-white heads are firm, compact and 
solid, with few short, upright leaves; also ad¬ 
mirably adapted for forcing. See illustration. 
Dry Weather (Danish Giant). A fine variety 
similar to Snowball but producing somewhat 
larger heads and especially adapted for grow¬ 
ing in dry locations. 
Extra Early Paris Forcing. A popular early, 
white, sure heading variety of medium size. 
Extra Select Early Dwarf Erfurt. The finest of 
the Erfurt cauliflower; almost as early as 
Snowball; seldom fails to form a good head. 
Ye itch’s Autumn Giant. A large, late, vigorous 
variety, having large, firm white heads. 
Henderson’s Early Snowball Requires a long season. 
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