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10 Seed Catalogue and Garden Guide.

[Image of carrots, labelled Davers Half Long, Large White Vosges, Oxheart, Scarlet Horn, Iowa Standard]

Carrots

One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill,
3 or 4 pounds for one acre.

One indispensible food for the farm, deserving of more general cultivation. Well man
aged, no crop pays better, and most farmers would find an acre or so desirable. A nutri
tious, succulent food in the winder for cattle, horses, sheep and pigs. For early, sow in the
spring as soon as the ground can be worked, in drills fifteen inches apart, covering one-half
inch; thin plants to three or four inches apart in row. For field culture rows should be of
sufficient distance to admit use of a horse cultivator; sow seed from middle of April to first
of June. A light, sandy loam, deeply tilled, is best; seed is slow to germinate; use care to
firm soil after sowing. Average 800 to 1,000 bushels per acre.

The crop of carrot seed is a failure all over the world this year. Prices are extremely hig
and it is doubtful if there is enough seed to meet the planters needs. We advise early orders.

Early Scarlet Horn. Favorite extra early variety. Very early. Orange-scarlet,
fine grained, and agreeable flavor. Top small, short, stump-shaped root; grows well in
shallow soil. Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c, 1/4 lb. 65c, lb. $ 2.25.

Oxheart, or Guerande. Most valuable variety in existence. Intermediate between
Half-Long and Horn sorts; diameter 3 to 4 inches at neck, beautiful shape; rich orange
color. Easily pulled, early as any, best quality all season. Find for stock, has yielded 1,200
bu. per acre. Cut tops with scythe; pull with potato hooks. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c, 1/4 lb. 75c, lb. $2.50 .

Iowa Standard Carrot. The most desirable early variety for bunching
and, although a trifle later than everyone is pleased withit. A splendid vari
ety for either market or feed purposes. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c, 1/4 lb. 75c, lb. $ 2.50.

Danvers. Is the form about midway between the Long Orange and Shorthorn
class, growing genrally with a stump root. It is of a rich, dark orange color, grows to a
large size, is smooth and the flesh very close texture, with little core. It is a first-class
carrot for all soils, and it is claimed that under good cultivation it will yield the greatest
weight per acre with smallest length of root of any grown. Pkt. 5 c, oz. 25c, 1/4 lb. 75c, lb. $2.50 .

Improved Long Orange. Desirable for garden or field. Grows to large size, averag
ing 12 inches in length and 3 inches in diameter at the top. This is the standard long
variety, preferred to Victoria by some because of its deeper orange color. Pkt. 5c, oz.
20c, 1/4 lb. 60c, lb. $2.00 .

[Image of carrots labelled Improved Long Orange]

Large White Vosges, or Improved Short White. A stock variety which is enor
mously productive and easy to harvest. Color light green above ground, white below, flesh
rich, white, solid and crisp; heavy yielding. Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c, 1/4 lb. 60c, lb. $ 2.00.

Victoria. Largest carrot grown, heaviest cropping and most nutritious variety culti
vated; roots remarkably fine, light orange, summetrical, excellent quality, of high feeding
properties; good keeper; heavy cropper on all soils; best adapted for rich land; grows half
as much weight again per acre as ordinary sorts; grows well out of ground; easily har
vested. All who have cattle should raise a quantity of carrots for feeding milch cows in
winter. It increases the flow of milk and gives to the butter a delicious flavor and a rich
golden color. Breeders of fine horses feed carrots to help keep them in health and condi
tion. Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c, 1/4 lb. 60c, lb. $2.00 .

Stock Food Collection
Better than condition powders or stock medicines

The live stock thrive better and keep in the best condition when they
have a diversified ration, of green pasture and vegetables in addition to
their regular grain feed. We offer you in this collection rape for
summer pasture and pumpkins and roots for fall and winter feed
ing when the pastures are gone. We give you enough seed to
produce vegetable feed for 25 to 30 animals during the
entire season and we believe it will prove a most profit
able investment to any farmer who keeps live stock.

The list includes:

4 lbs. Dwarf Essex Rape (1 acre for pasture)

1 lb. Big Tom Pumpkins (4 acres in the corn)

2 lbs. Giant Sludstrop Mangel (1/2 acre)

1/2 lb. Victoria Carrots (1/4 acre)

1/2 lb. Golden Ball Turnip. (1/2 acre)

Prepaid, any address, $2.50.

[Image of carrot and cow, labelled Victoria, The heaviest cropping variety in cultivation]

There is not enough attention paid to root crops by live stock raisers.