This Year Try Broccoli 
BUSH SHELL OR FIELD 
BEANS 
1 lb. will plant 100 foot row 
60-90 Ibs. will plant 1 acre 
; Plant after danger of frost, 1 inch deep, 4 inches apart 
in 28 to 36 inch rows. Better to plant after rain than 
before as a crusted soil may cause loss in yield. 
* FRENCH HORTICULTURAL : 68 days, 60 seeds per 
ounce. A popular green shelled variety for home and 
market. Plant erect and compact, with short run- 
ners. Pods 7 to 8 inches long, splashed with deep 
carmine, very attractive in appearance but fibrous 
and stringy. Shelled bean is pinkish buff color; mot- 
tled and streaked with ox-blood red. Pkt. 10 cts.; 
¥% |b. 20 cts.; lb. 30 cts.; 2 lbs. 55 cts.; 5 lbs. $1.20; 
15 Ibs. $2.70; 100 lbs. $15.20. 
DWARF HORTICULTURAL: 60 days, 60 seeds per 
oz. Valuable as a shell bean for the early market. 
Can also be used as a snap bean. Stringless but 
rather tough. Only fair quality. A week to ten days 
earlier than French Horticultural but the pods are a 
little shorter and not quite so highly colored as that 
variety. Pkt. 10 cts.; % lb. 15 cts.; Ib. 25 cts.; 
: aaa 45 cts.; 5 lbs. $1.00; 15 lbs. $2.40; 100 lbs. 
13.00. 
DARK RED KIDNEY: 100 days, 59 seeds per ounce. 
A large mahogany colored kidney bean used for bak- 
ing and canning. Dry, mealy and of excellent quality. 
Pkt. 10 cts.; % lb. 15 cts.; lb. 25 cts.; 2 Ibs. 45 
cts.; 5 lbs. $1.00; 15 lbs. $2.20; 100 lbs. $11.00. 
TABLE BEETS 
1 oz. will sow 100 ft. row 
8 to 10 Ibs. will sow 1 acre 
Sow as early as soil can be worked in spring, dropping 
seeds 4 inch apart, % inch deep in rows, 12 to 18 
inches apart. Thin seedlings to 11% to 3 inches, de- 
pending on what size beets are wanted. For continuous 
harvest, plant at three week intervals to August Ist. 
*xDETROIT DARK RED: 68 days. The outstanding 
variety for produce shippers and canners; also used 
for bunching. Roots are globular or nearly round, 
very dark, interior color blood red. Unless growing 
conditions are abnormal, the zones are so inconspicu- 
ous that the beets seem to be one solid color. 
Our stock has been outstanding for several years in 
field trials at the New York State Experiment Sta- 
tion. Many growers, producing large acreages of 
canning factory beets, find our Detroit Dark Red 
meet the requirements of the more discriminating 
canners better than other strains. The quality, tex- 
ture and color are uniformly good throughout the 
Crop mete OlCtS 7407420 Cts. 41b.o0) CtSe Lb: 
80 cts.; 10 lbs. $7.40; 100 Ibs. $65.00. 
CROSBY: 60 days. We have been listing both Crosby 
Egyptian and Early Wonder. These two varieties, 
we believe, came from the same stock. Good stocks 
of these are so nearly identical that we are dropping 
the Early Wonder and devoting all of our effort to 
breeding a more uniform Crosby. Our ideal is a flat- 
tened globe shape beet with a small tap root. Pkt. 
10 cts?; oz. 20 cts.; % Ib. 35 cts.: Ib. 85 cts.; 10 
Ibs. $8.10; 100 lbs. $71.25. 
MANGEL BEETS. See page 15 
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“Your records will show that we used quite an amount of your 
seeds in our section of St. Lawrence County in 1939. We distrib- 
uted these through our F.F.A. Chapter. Satisfaction averaged 
nearly 100%.”’ 
February 27, 1940 Parishville Future Farmers 
Parishville Union School 
Parishville, N. Y. 

Broccoli is very easy to grow. We sow the seed when we plant the 
garden. Later we thin the plants to about 24 inches in the row and 
aes most of the green vegetables are gone we have plenty of 
roccoli. 
BROCCOLI 
1 oz. will produce 2000 plants 
Seed hot water treated 
If started in greenhouse or hot bed April Ist and 
transplanted into open ground, broccoli will be ready 
for use the first week in July. Later plantings can be 
made in the open ground and either transplanted or 
thinned to 24 inches in the row. Rows should be 3 feet 
apart. Some seasons aphids are rather troublesome, 
especially on early crops. We think best quality heads 
are produced from seed sown about June Ist. 
ITALIAN GREEN SPROUTING (Calabrese): 60 
days. Plants are 3 to 4 feet high and branched. After 
the central head is removed, a number of smaller 
heads are produced on stems 4 to 5 inches in length. 
If kept cut, the plants will continue to produce for 
five or six weeks. Pkt. 15 cts.; % oz. 45 cts.; oz. 
70 cts.; 34 Ib. $2.25; lb. $7.60. 

If you are planning on canning and pickling some of your beets you 
had better use Detroit Dark Red. The dark red color looks better 
in the can and there are no light colored rings when you cut the 
beets. 
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“Your seeds continue to produce more reliably and are much 
more staisfactory than any others we have used in this location 
where the growing season is so very short.” 
W. L. Decker 
April 19, 1940 
Newport, N. Y. 
