Horitucultural guide : spring 1892 . Beans. Pint, 15 cts.;quart, :M cts.; peck, 81-50; bushel Snowflake—A wonderfully prolific variety. The Beansare of fair size and good quality. Pint, 15 cts.; quart, 30 cts ; peck, $; bushel Beans subject to market fluctuation. (See Garden Beans, pages 7 and 8.) CARROTS. Large varieties suitable for stock. (For description see pages 10 and 11.) Danvers—1 lb., 75 cts.; 5 lbs Improved Long Orange—1 lb , 65cts.; 5 lbs White Belgian—1 lb., 60 cts.; 5 lbs PUMPKIN. (For descriptions see page 20 ) Jumbo-llb ,$3-00; 5 lbs Connecticu
Horitucultural guide : spring 1892 . Beans. Pint, 15 cts.;quart, :M cts.; peck, 81-50; bushel Snowflake—A wonderfully prolific variety. The Beansare of fair size and good quality. Pint, 15 cts.; quart, 30 cts ; peck, $; bushel Beans subject to market fluctuation. (See Garden Beans, pages 7 and 8.) CARROTS. Large varieties suitable for stock. (For description see pages 10 and 11.) Danvers—1 lb., 75 cts.; 5 lbs Improved Long Orange—1 lb , 65cts.; 5 lbs White Belgian—1 lb., 60 cts.; 5 lbs PUMPKIN. (For descriptions see page 20 ) Jumbo-llb ,$3-00; 5 lbs Connecticut Field—1 lb., 40 cts.; 5 lbs Mammoth Tours—1 lb., 65 cts.; 5 lbs KOHLRABI. (For descriptions see page If.) Large White—1 lb., $; 5 lbs Sow about 4 lbs. to the acre. PEAS—Field Varieties. Canadian White—Bushel 1-35 Canadian Blue— 1-35 Scotch—Bushel 1-50 (Subject to market fluctuations.)(See Garden Peas, page 19 and 20.) POTATOES. (See pages 6 and 21.) Qjrrii? Bros/ j^ortieultural Qiiide,- 29. CURKIB S PRIZE CLUSTER OATS. OATS. Curries Prize Cluster—The heaviest and most prolific Oats grown^so universally popular has it become that any description of it or ac-count of its very superior merits would simply be superfluous. Wehave distributed it everyvphere throughout our own and neighboring-States, so that it is well known; and we are in no measure surprisedto learn from all quarters that it is considered the beat Oat in aiUiva-tion, by far the earliest and most productive. To substantiate this fact,,however, we will simply state that Prof. R. P. Speer, Director of theIowa Agricultural Experimental Station, in his report for 1888, places-Prize Cluster at the head of the list of varieties he had tested. Out-of fifteen of the leading sorts grown he found by careful measurement:and weight that Prize Cluster produced 69 b^tsheU to the acre, threebushels more than any of the other sorts. For the information of anyone who may not have tried Pri
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