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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA.

CABBAGE==Continued.

IOWA SEED CO.'S SHORT-STEM DRUMHEAD.---
Our Improved and selected strain of this popular
variety has greatly pleased thousands of our
customers during the past ten years, and so
greatly has it improved during the time
that we have had it that in a large field
it is almost impossible to find a head
that is not solid and well formed. For
sureness in heading, regularity of
growth, and even, large, solid
heads, it far surpasses any other
strain of late cabbage which we
have seen, ripening evenly with
very short stem or stalk, and large
thick heads of silky fine quality
and of best keeping properties. It
is almost all head and always sure
to head. Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c, 1/4 lb. 90c,
lb. $2.25.

PREMIUM FLAT DUTCH.-This
old and well known variety is still
the standard winter kind. Heads
large and solid; also first-class as
a keeper, Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, 1/4 lb.
50c, lb. $1.50.

ALL SEASONS.-(Vandergaw)-
This most excellent variety is as
early as Henderson's Summer and
makes considerably larger and
harder heads. Excellent to plant
late, the thickness of head making
it a capital sort for keeping through the winter. Pkt 5c 20c, 1/4lb
65c, lb. $2.00.

CARROTS

One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill; 3 or 4 pounds for one acre.
An indispensable root for the farm, deserving of more general
cultivation. Well managed, no crop pays better, and most farmers
would find an acre or so desirable. A nutritious, succulent food
in the winter for cattle, horses, sheep and pigs. For early, sow
in spring as soon as the ground can be worked, in drills fifteen
inches apart, covering one-half inch; thin plants to three or four
in. 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 bu. per acre.

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[caption] OXHEART CARROT

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[caption] DANVERS HALF LONG

EARLY SCARLET HORN.-Favorite extra early
variety. Very early. Oronge [orange]-scarlet, fine grained
and agreeable flavor. Top small, short, stump-shaped
root; grows well in shallow soil. Pkt. 5c,
oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 30c, lb. 90c.

OXHEART, or Guerande.-Most valuable variety
in existence. Intermediate between Half-Long and
Horn sorts; diameter 3 to 4 in. at neck; beautiful
shape; rich orange color. Easily pulled, early as
any, of best quality all season . Fine for stock; has
yielded 1,200 bu. per acre. Cut tops with scythe and
pull roots with potato hooks. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb,
25c, lb. 75c.

[image: IOWA STANDARD] IOWA STANDARD CARROT.-The most
desirable early variety for bunching, and
although a trifle later than the first earlies,
still will yield so much handsomer
roots and larger crop that everyone is
pleased with it. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 30c, lb, $1.00.

DANVERS.-Is in form about midway between the Long Orange and Shorthorn class,
growing generally 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 the smallest length of root of any grown. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 65c.

IMPROVED LONG ORANGE.-Desirable for garden or field. Grows to large size, averaging 12 in. in length, and 3 in. in diameter at the top. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 65c.
By express, 5lbs. or more, at 45c per lb.

LARGE WHITE VOSGES, or Improved Short White.-A stock variety which
is enormously productive and easy to harvest. Color light green above
ground, white below; flesh rich , white, solid and crisp ; heavy yielding.
Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/ 4lb. 20c, lb. 60c; by express, 5lbs. or more, 45c per lb.

VICTORIA.-Largest carrot grown , heaviest cropping and most
nutritious variety cultivated; roots remarkably fine, light
orange, symmetrical, 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 harvested. All who
have cattle should raise a quantity of carrots
for feeding milch cows in winter. It
increases 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 condition. Pkt. 5c,
oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 25c. lb.
75c. By express,
5lbs. or more,
50c per lb.

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[caption] THE HEAVIEST CROPPING VARIETY IN CULTIVATION

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FILDERKRAUT.--A long, pointed-headed sort which is
quite popular with our German customers.
Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, 1/4 lb. 50c, lb $1.75

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[caption] NEW SHORT-STEM DRUMHEAD CABBAGE

CABBAGE PLANTS
Of our own growing, from
best quality of seeds. See
page 31 for list of varieties
and prices.

LOTS OF GOOD FEED FROM LITTLE SEED IF YOU PLANT A FIELD OF CARROTS.