This treatise has been carefully compiled from the prize essays, with copious additions from our own experience in growing these crops. It treats fully not only on HOW TO GROW, but also HOW TO STORE and HOW TO FEED, with notes on the relative value for stock feeding of the different varieties of Beets, Mangels, Carrots, Parsnips, Turnips and Ruta Bagas. In these days of low prices for cereals and high valuation of land, ROOT CROPS FOR STOCK FEEDING is a subject of the greatest importance to every progressive farmer desirous of making THE FARM PAY A PROFIT. Sent by mail, postpaid, upon receipt of price. * * * * * BURPEE’S FARM ANNUAL. A handsomely illustrated catalogue of the Best Garden, Farm and Flower SEEDS, Bulbs and Plants is published by January 1st of each year and mailed _gratis_ to all intending purchasers of seeds. Address _W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO._, SEED GROWERS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. FOOTNOTES: [1] Miss Moll says that this rusting can be prevented by only hoeing the beans when the soil is dry. We would also particularly recommend _Burpee’s Perfection Wax_, a fine new variety, that has so far proved free from rust.--ED. [2] See the method of covering the seed of Lima beans described by Miss L. M. Moll, and our note on the same.--ED. [3] We would also particularly recommend _Burpee’s White Zulu_, a new variety of 1888. It is one of the earliest of pole beans, immensely productive, and the broad, handsome, white pods, eight to ten inches long, are of the choicest quality.--ED. [4] The _Extra Early Express_, a new variety, just introduced from France, and seed of which we distributed for trial this year, has proved _eight to ten days earlier_ than the Etampes. The heads do not average quite as large as the Etampes, but are of equally as good quality and of the shape shown in the illustration on page 60.--ED. [5] For years, Mr. Vandergaw, a large cabbage grower of Long Island, has had a _second-early_ cabbage fully as early as Early Summer and with much larger heads. This is known as _the Vandergaw Cabbage_, and is only now being generally introduced. The heads are very large and solid, of the shape shown in the illustration on page 64; it is a good keeper, and altogether a good variety, also, for winter use.--ED. [6] Other distinct and good varieties of American onions are _Southport Yellow Globe_ and _Large Red Globe_, _Yellow Strasburg or Dutch_, and the _Extra Early Red_. For more complete information, invaluable to all who propose growing onions on a large scale for market, see the new book, “HOW TO GROW ONIONS, WITH NOTES ON VARIETIES,” an exhaustive treatise written by T. Greiner, of New Jersey, Col. A. H. Arlie, of Oregon, and W. Atlee Burpee.--ED. [7] Equally as early is _Laxton’s Earliest of All_, which is a blue-seeded variety, of very fine quality and handsome appearance.--ED.