Giant Half Sugar Rose Top Beets
This is by many considered the greatest beet for feeding stock. It is richer in sugar than the Mangel-Wurzels and not so rich as sugar beets. What it lacks in sugar it makes up in tonnage yield per acre, and not being so sweet is less liable to injure the kidneys when fed in very large quantities compared with sugar beets. It grows about one-half out of the ground and is excellent for all kinds of stock. One acre of this will produce as much food value as eight to ten acres of corn. The shape is as shown in cut above. Color, rose above the ground, white below; flesh white, sometimes slightly tinged with rose. Price-(5c per oz.) (15c per ¼ lb.) (50c per lb.) prepaid. By freight or express (10 lbs., 40c per lb.). Wholesale price ($30.00 per 100 lbs.).
Originally listed in: 1927 Burrell's Seed Catalog
This is by many considered the greatest beet for feeding stock. It is richer in sugar than the Mangel-Wurzels and not so rich as sugar beets. What it lacks in sugar it makes up in tonnage yield per acre, and not being so sweet is less liable to injure the kidneys when fed in very large quantities compared with sugar beets. It grows about one-half out of the ground and is excellent for all kinds of stock. One acre of this will produce as much food value as eight to ten acres of corn. The shape is as shown in cut above. Color, rose above the ground, white below; flesh white, sometimes slightly tinged with rose. Price-(5c per oz.) (15c per ¼ lb.) (50c per lb.) prepaid. By freight or express (10 lbs., 40c per lb.). Wholesale price ($30.00 per 100 lbs.).
Originally listed in: 1927 Burrell's Seed Catalog