. Burpee's farm annual. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; W. Atlee Burpee Company; Nursery stock; Flowers; Vegetables; Seeds. /4 LANE'S IMPROVED IMPERIAL SUGAR BEET. This is the most popular sugar beet for feeding cows, sheep, or swine. This beet will yield as much as most mangels, and contains eight per cent, of sugar. Has yielded thirty to forty tons per acre, at a cost of five cents per bushel. The large amount of healthy, nutritious food which is" produced at so small a cost and its great value for cattle, sheep, a


. Burpee's farm annual. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; W. Atlee Burpee Company; Nursery stock; Flowers; Vegetables; Seeds. /4 LANE'S IMPROVED IMPERIAL SUGAR BEET. This is the most popular sugar beet for feeding cows, sheep, or swine. This beet will yield as much as most mangels, and contains eight per cent, of sugar. Has yielded thirty to forty tons per acre, at a cost of five cents per bushel. The large amount of healthy, nutritious food which is" produced at so small a cost and its great value for cattle, sheep, and swine make this root very profitable for stock farmers. The beets grow to a large size, and are even more perfect in shape than shown in the illustra- tion; very free from side roots. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; ~% lb 20 cts.; per ft) 40 cts. By express, at 30 cts. per ft). RED TOP SUGAR BEET. This is a productive, hardy, and symmetrically- shaped variety. The root is slender, being about three to four inches in diameter at the shoulder, and tapers gradually to a point. This variety will yield a crop of nearly twenty tons to the acre, containing about eight per cent, of sugar. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; % lb 20 cts.; per lb 40 cts. By ex- press, per ft) 30 cts.; 5 lbs. lane's improved at 25 cts. per lb. IMPERIAL SUGAR IMPROVED MAMMOTH PRIZE LONG RED MANGEL (also called Norbitan Giant and Jumbo Mangel). The heaviest cropping and best long Man- gel. This mam- moth variety grows to an im- mense size, single roots weighing twenty to thirty pounds each, and always of very fine texture and good quality. It is re- markable for the broad shoulder and massive shape of the root, by which a great weight is obtained w i th o u t coarse- ness. In England it has produced from sixty to sev- enty-five tons of roots per acre. Henry Hodgson,of Millersville, Ohio, raised on one acre 55,750 lbs. of roots, from seed pur- chased from us. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; % ft) 20 cts.; pe


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