GURNEY’S AMERICAN GROWN BEETS AND MANGELS 
BEETS AND MANGELS FOR WINTER FEED WILL MAKE BIG EGG AND CREAM CHECKS 
CULTURE: The best soil for beets is a deep sandy loam, although they are easily grown and will do well in most any soil. For early beets plant 
as early in the spring as the ground can be worked, sowing a little later for the main crop. Winter beets should be planted about the 1st of June. 
Plant the seed about 1 inch deep and in rows 18 inches apart. Thin the plants to 3 inches in the row. One ounce of seed will plant 50 feet; 6 pounds 
to the acre. 
Gurney's Early Model Globe 
TABLE BEETS 
• GURNEY'S EARLY MODEL GLOBE 
The Model Globe Beet is medium early, always 
even in size, color and shape. A number of newer 
varieties have been offered since we offered the 
Model Globe, but they have never equalled this 
beet in the trial grounds or in the field. One of the 
most satisfactory uses of the Model Globe Beet 
is for pickling purposes, using them when they 
are about 1 Yz inches through. They retain their 
color and are of excellent quality. Pkt., 6c; oz., 
12 c; Vi lb., 20c; 1/2 lb.. 35c; 1 lb., 65c; 5 lbs., 
$3.00 Postpaid. 
• IMPROVED EARLY EGYPTIAN 
We consider this the best first early beet of all 
the standard varieties. Best for forcing, best for 
first out door planting, roots very dark red, 
rounded on top, flat underneath. Small tops, 
which allow close planting. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; 
Vi lb., 20c; x /z lb., 35c; 1 lb., 50c. 
• CROSBY’S EGYPTIAN 
The tops are small. The roots are globe 
shaped and very smooth. The flesh of our strain 
is bright vermilion-red, zoned with a lighter 
shade, very sweet, tender and of excellent qual¬ 
ity. This is one of the best for early planting 
outdoors and is much used for bunching. Pkt., 
5c; oz., 10c; Vi lb., 20c; V 2 lb., 35c; 1 lb., 55c. 
5 lbs. $2.50 Postpaid. 
GURNEY'S DAKOTA WONDER 
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A beautiful smooth, globe shaped beet with 
small neck and tap root. A pedigreed stock—the 
result of many years of pure line breeding. The 
flesh is an intense dark red. You may pull a 
dozen or a hundred beets and there will be no 
variation in shape. Cut them and every one will 
be the same glowing dark red color. They are 
very early and very good both for bunching and 
winter use. Pkt., 7c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 30c; 1/2 lb., 
45c; 1 lb., 80c; 5 lbs., $3.50; Postpaid. 
• DETROIT DARK RED 
A grand beet for bunching for market; tops are 
exceedingly small and uniformly upright; roots 
are perfect turnip shape, with small tap roots. 
The principal fault with most Turnip Beets is 
the occasional appearance of white rings, and 
this will be found has been overcome by careful 
selection of the deepest red beets. Quality is the 
very best; sweet and tender. Gardeners can 
safely plant it largely. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; Vi lb., 
20c; 1/2 lb., 35c; 1 lb., 60c; 5 lbs. $2.75 Postpaid. 
® SWISS CHARD FOR GREENS 
Swiss Chard is grown for its leaves only, as it 
does not make a bulb like other beets. The leaves 
are gathered while young and used for greens, or 
later the mid ribs may be cooked and served the 
same as Asparagus. Swiss Chard will make more 
and better greens than any other vegetable. 
Plant and cultivate the same as beets. Pkt., 5c; 
oz., 10c; Vi lb., 20c; V 2 lb., 35c; 1 lb., 60c. 
SUGAR BEETS AND MANGELS 
For Winter Feed 
The food value in root crops is high and 
everyone should plant a sufficient acreage so 
that the hogs and chickens con have a sup¬ 
ply every day. It is not unusual to produce 
25 ton of mangels to the acre. Plant a suffici¬ 
ent quantity so that the milch cows can get 
their share and you will increase the flow 25%. 
SUGAR BEETS 
• WHITE KLEIN WANZLEBEN 
This variety has proved to be a very valuable 
sort, in Colorado and other sections of this 
country, where it has been thoroughly tested. It 
has a rather long, slender root, very rich in 
sugar, and grows deeply sunk in the ground and 
will yield under average conditions about sixteen 
tons to the acre, containing 12 to 13 percent of 
sugar. 1 oz., 7c; V 2 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 40c; 5 lbs., 
$1.75 Postpaid. 
Health Value of Fresh Beets 
Calories per lb.. .209 Vitamins A, B, C 
Proteins. 2.3% Carbohydrates. .9.7% 
Fats.1% Calcium.029% 
Iron.00085% 
Dick Kenaston of Yankton 
with a Mammoth Long Red Mangel 
MANGELS 
® MAMMOTH LONG RED 
The roots are very large, uniformly straight 
and well formed. They are easily harvested as 
about one half the mangel grows above ground. 
The flesh is white tinged with rose. This strain 
under careful culture is enormously productive. 
Our stock will produce the largest and finest 
roots wklich can be grown for feeding stock. 
1 oz., 7c; V 2 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75 
Postpaid. 
• DANISH SLUDSTRUP 
This most wonderful Mangel has been award¬ 
ed a first class certificate several times by the 
Danish Government, which is the highest honor 
attained in Agricultural circles in Denmark. 
Sludstrup is a long reddish yellow root, but 
not so long as the Mammoth long red. It grows 
more above the ground and is very easily harvest¬ 
ed. Under favorable conditions they frequently 
attain a weight of fifteen lbs. each. 1 oz., 7c; 
V 2 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75 Postpaid. 
• GIANT HALF SUGAR ROSE 
As its name implies, this is a half sugar beet. 
Roots of much greater nutritive value than 
mangels. Yield nearly as large as the best of the 
mangels. Roots grow about one-half out of the 
ground, and are conveniently harvested. 1 oz., 
7c; V4 lb*» 25c; 1 lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75 Postpaid. 
CHIVES (SCHNITTLAUCH) 
Every vegetable grower should become ac¬ 
quainted with this plant. It is extremely hardy, 
being a perennial; will grow for years. The 
green leaves are highly prized for seasoning 
soups, salads and stews. 
The provident housewife always has a few 
clumps in the garden. The flavor resembles very 
much that of an onion. 
Pkt., 7c; V 2 oz., 20c; oz., 35c. 
COTTON 
Do you know you can raise cotton in the 
North? I don’t mean you should go into it on a 
commercial scale and compete with the Southern 
cotton grower. He has trouble enough without 
that—But why not raise a few plants for a 
novelty and to show your friends and neighbors? 
This plant is not only interesting but ornamental. 
Early maturing Cotton. Pkt., 7c; 1 oz. I5c. 
CRESS 
Curled or Pepper Grass—The leaves of this 
small salad Plant are much frilled or curled, and 
areusedforgarnishing. Itisalsodesirablewithlet- 
tuce, to the flavor of which its warm, pungent 
taste makes a most agreeable addition. The 
plant is of rapid growth, about one foot high. 
Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; % lb., 25c; 1 lb., 65c. 
True Water Cress—This is a distinct variety 
of cress with small, oval leaves. It thrives best 
when its roots and stems are submerged in water. 
A fair growth may be obtained in soil which is 
kept wet but does best when grown along moist 
banks or in tubs in water-covered soil. It is one 
of the most delicious of small salads and should 
be planted wherever a suitable place can be found. 
Pkt., 7c; x /z oz., 20c; 1 oz., 35c; Vi lb., $1.00. 
The House of Gurney, Dear Sirs: 
Have been using your seeds along with others for the past three years. Last year your onion 
seed and Mammoth Long Red Mangel seed brought me the largest yield and best quality I have 
ever raised. A Satisfied Customer. Vern Christofferson, Dodge Center, Minn. 
7 pound of Mangel seed — 10,000 pounds of Mangels 
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