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 
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, 
reddish-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 
yielding 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 cab¬ 
bage. 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 y 2 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 var¬ 
iety either for the home or market gar¬ 
den. The medium sized snow-white 
heads are firm, compact and solid, with 
few short, upright leaves; also admirably 
adapted for forcing. See illustration. 
Dry Weather (Danish Giant). A fine 
variety similar to Snowball but pro¬ 
ducing somewhat larger heads and 
especially adapted for growing in dry lo¬ 
cations. 
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. 
Veitch’s Autumn Giant. A large, late, vig- 
... , _ . _ ... orous variety, having large, firm white 
Henderson s Early Snowball hearls. Requires a long season. 
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