• tested and planted the same way. They area fine-flavored potato ; am wellpleased 



< with them. Shall plant all I raised next spring." 



!• B. W. Lewis North Lincoln, Maine: " I planted 1 pound of Freeman and raised 



r 253 pounds of very handsome potatoes. I think they are a splendid No. 1 potato." 

 ■• JoiinW. Morelv, Mossback. Mich.: " This part of Michigan suffered from a very 

 |r severe drought ; from the 1st of May to the .Middle of August we had scarcely any 

 i|r rain, ye; the Freeman potatoes did very nicely, yielding 2 bushels from about 3 

 \m pounds of seed." 

 H J. H. DavK Milford, Mich.: " I raised 2 bushel of Freeman potatoes from the 2 



L. pounds of seed received from you last year; and they were grown at a disadvantage, 

 K rirst the bugs came and ate them down into the ground, then the season was very 

 ffc drv ; but I consider the Freeman one of the finest varieties I ever planted.' 

 IE, " John M. Stewart, West Falmouth, Maine: " I bought 1 pound of the Freeman 

 fc potatoes, cut them to one eve and in some cases split the eye ; they planted a piece 



2 of ground -7 feet long and 9 feet wide, rows 3 teet apart. They had no extra care. 

 IB with the exception of the bugs being picked by iiand daily. I dug them on 

 E the 24th of August and had 144 pounds, nearly all of marketable size. Many weigb- 

 E ing three-quarters of a pound. Thev are a pro iuetive, good-looking and early potato. 



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Frogaer. Herman, Minn.: "The two tubers of Freeman potatoes you sent me 

 last spring weighe 1 about 4 ounces. They were planted the 25th of May in good 

 garden soil with no manure. I cut them in eight pieces, planting one to the hill. 

 Thev were harvested s .•ptemoer 1st with the following product: 50 potatoes 

 « weighed 20 pounds 2 ounces; y. small tubers weighing 4 ounces; 5'J tubers, total 

 a weight, 20 pounds 6 ounces. The potatoes are very fine, smooth and handsome— 

 , one of the tinest out of 107 varieties planted in the same plot. The yield is at the 

 < rate of 023 busnels to the acre, and I do not think they had a fair trial, the con- 

 ditions being verv unfavorable, as it has been one of the driest seasons for the last 

 ; five years. I like the potatoes so well that 1 shall save them for seed without test- 

 " ing their table qualities until next year." 



' SimuelB. Green, Ex. Station, Anthony Park. Minn.: "The Freeman potato 

 has proven a prolific, valuable variety. It was planted on newly broken timber 

 J land on gravelly soil." 



J Roger S. Pease, Minneapolis, Minn.: "The Freeman potatoes are a grand suc- 

 . cess. From the 4 pounds I had 72 hills, giving me just 6 bushels of as fine potatoes as 

 S one would wish so see. I planted them with Burpee's Extra Early and several 

 p other earlv sorts, but the race was between the two named. The Extra Early 

 leemed a trifle earlier, but I want to try this point again next year. From the 



Extra Earlv I secured 1 bushel from an average of IS hills, and from the Freeman 

 a bushel from 12 hills. This settles the question of yield. 1 dug 3 bushels of Free- 

 man from 29 hills. This isa grand yield ; with just ordinary care just what a farmer 

 would give. Your statement last season was none too strong; you certainly have 

 a great success in the Freeman potato." 



J. B. Bend, Victor, Montana : " The Freeman is the finest potato I ever raised ; 

 the hills averaged B large potatoes each." 



G. C. McFadden, Townsenl, Montana: " From 1 pound of Freeman I raised 124 

 pounds of potatoes, and yet my potatoes this season .vere not more than half a crop. 

 I think I could raise 250 pounds from 1 pound of seed in a good season. A number 

 weighed over 1 pound. They are one or the best table potatoes I ever saw." 



Hugh J Beall. Hickman, Neb.: "The Freeman potato proved very satisfactory, 

 under the circumstances, the season being very dry. From 1 pound of seed I dug 

 123 fair sized potatoes ; they are as smooth and nice looking a potato as I ever saw. ' 



J. L. Hobbs. Omaha, Neb.: " I raised 35 pounds of nice average-sized potatoes i 



from the one-third of a pound of Freemans planted, which I think was remarkably 



well, everything considered : in fact. I was surprised to find any. They are a clean, 



** smooth potato, and judging from what I have seen, they are a wonderful potato to 



£ yield, and 1 would not hesitate for a moment to recommend them to any one as a 



^J profitable potato to plant." 



i 3 S. J. Ellis, Woodvllle, Neb.: "From 1 pound of Freemans I dug &5 pounds, 

 ! ; would have gotten a great deal more if I had planted them at the proper time. 

 ;0 1 stunted them bv transplanting They are the earliest potato I ever saw." 

 lb J. E. Markel. DeSoto. Neb.: "I purchased 1 pound of Freeman potatoes, cut 

 J 5 them so as to make 25 hills, and gathered 140 pounds from them. The potatoes are 

 ' very fine, as you will see from sample sent. Shall plant all of them next spring on 

 2 S m J r "ew river bottom farm and expect to make a good showing." 



John A. Hall, Hampstead, N. H.: "I planted 7 pounds of Freeman potatoes last 

 year and raised 660 pounds of the finest potatoes 1 ever saw, although we had a very 

 poor season I weighed 30 potatoes that tipped the scales at 30 pounds. I think 

 they are perfectly splendid." 



Geo. M. Wallery. Matawan, N. J.: " Your Freeman potatoes are fine. I have 8 

 oarrels for seed, which I shall plant ; would plant nothing else if I only had enough." 

 A. Vandenberg, Hawthorne, N. J.: ''The Freeman turned out very satisfactory, 

 3 although we had a severe drought : we raised 8D bushels from 1 bushel of seed." 

 ij A.Reed, Hermosa, X. M.: "The Freeman potato is an excellent producer, and 

 H well adapted to this part of the country." 

 11 Nathan M. Bales, Jamestown, N. C: " From 11" 4 ' pounds of Freeman I raised 8 



bushels, this is double the yield of Early Rose planted adjoining them, and no 

 a extra cultivation given to either. lam very much pleased with the Freemans, 

 W and consider them one of the very best varieties for yield and quality." 

 K H. Stewart. Highlands X. C: " You were kind enough to send me sample of 

 f* the Freeman potato. I planted them, cutting to single eyes, and making 1 row 60 

 J5 feet long, eyes 2 feet apart. I dug them yesterday (August 24th i; they were 

 <j planted May 18th, and were ripe on the 4th of August ; that is the vines were brown 

 ,m then. The yield is 178 pounds. This is double the yield of Early Rose and Polaris. 

 mi planted adjoining them, and about the rate of 700 bushels per acre. Their cooking 

 quality is excellent ; they are smooth and handsome in shape." 



Professor W. F. Massey, N. C. Ex. Station. Raleigh, X. C: " Our Freemans 

 were planted two months tool ite for favorable results. I am much pleased with the 

 potato, and hope to have an opportunity to try it under favorable circumstances." 

 H. Musk, Clili Centre, X. Y.: " The Freeman isa fine potato and good yielder : 

 this was a bad year, but from one pound of seed, I raised % bushel of nice potatoes, 

 n Your Midsummer cabbage can't be beat." 



V G. W. Canfield, Alfred, X. H.: " I cut and planted 24 hills from the 1 pound of 



V Freeman potatoes received from you, about May 1st, in hard clay soil, with a little 

 ji muck mixed in it. With only ordinary cultivation (hoeing but once) I raised 80 

 i*i pounds of nice, large, smooth potatoes. As the season turned out, I planted too 

 Ji'Jp early and too deep. With good cultivation, on good ground, they will yield mi 



u busnels from every bushel of seed planted without a doubt." 



S F, G. Yeomans * Son. Walworth, X. Y : " We planted 2'i pounds of the Free- 



C man potatoes, cut to middling small, but not always single eyes. We dug 132 



m pounds, mostly good, fair size." 



„• T. Eugene Annis, Rochester. N. Y.: " I could not give the Freeman as good a 



"5, chance as I would have liked to, but out of 10 different kinds I consider there is 



•jj none better. I can fully endorse all Mr. Terry says about them." 



g C. E. Hunn, X. Y. Agr. Ex Station, Geneva, X. Y.: " From 2 pounds of seed or 



* the Freeman potato there were harvested 173 merchantable tubers weighing 5(1 

 S pounds and 12 ounces, and 33 small tubers weighing 2 pounds and 14 ounces. This 



V yield is above the average of 50 of the newer varieties tested this year. The quality 

 c ofthe Freeman is of the best, being very mealy when boiled. and making a superior 

 w baking variety. The tubers are of good size, eyes not too deep, and I think would 

 gj make a good market variety." 



qd A. W. Purvis, Dryden. X Y.: " I had very good luck with the Freeman 



* potatoes. They yielded 2 bushels and a peck frorii 2 pounds of seed, and I think it 

 h I had not cut them so small, they would have yielded better." 



S> John Rooney.Schroon Lake, X Y.: " I had very good success with the Free- 

 man; from 1 pound of seed I raised no. pounds of potatoes. They are the greatest 

 2 yielder of any potato I ever raised, and I have raised over twenty different kinds." 

 IV Fred. Brown. Logan. Oregon: " The Freeman is the potato for Oregon. It is 

 O three weeks earlier than Early Hose, for table use a finer variety cannot be found." 

 »j C. B. Bell, Adamsville, Ohio: " From the peck of Freeman potatoes purchased 

 5 from you last spring I raised 21 bushels. They were planted on one twentieth of an 

 es acre and yielded at the rateof over 400 bushels per acre. They are the most 

 U vigorous grower I ever saw." 



m E. E. Mead, Olivet, Ohio: •' We had very good success with the Freeman 



d potatoes, from a pound of seed. I raised a heaping bushel of potatoes; we could of 

 9 course have done better by splitting the eyes and giving special cultivation. I eon- 

 S sider both Polaris and Freeman unsurpassed In quality and yield." 

 £ E. W. Bascom, Kenilworth, i Ihlo : " Vonr Freeman potato is one of the best of 

 ^ some thirty new kinds I have been trying." 



Mrs. h. M. Petry. El Dorado. Ohio : "X planted 3 small Freeman potatoes last 

 year, weighing 5 ounces, from which we raised 42' > pounds. I can heartily recom- 



mend the Freeman as a 



id potato to yield. 



Clayton Holl, Xew Berlin, Ohio: "The Freeman have done better with me than 

 any other variety 1 planted. 1 intend to plant the main crop next .season of 

 Freemans." 



V. II. Sawyer, Painesville, Ohio: " In regard to my opinion of the Freeman 

 potato, I will say, in all candor, I think it bids fair to be the coming potato for early 

 use, both for earliness, productiveness and quality. They yielded better than Beauty 

 of Hebron, planted at the same time, on the same soil, side by side, were several 

 days earlier and were more vigorous and thrifty in their growth." 



G. A. HJsey *t Bon, Republic, Ohio: "The pound of Freeman Potatoes received 

 from you we cut to one eye and planted May 10th in a loose black loan, pieces 1 foot 

 apart. On account of cold, dry weather they did not come up for about two week, 

 from planting. Done well until July 1st, when we had a protracted droughts 

 but we raised 35 pounds of nice potatoes, or at the rate of 192 pusbels per a 



Geo. A. Williams, Toledo, Ohio: "I planted 1 pound of Freeman potatoes last 

 year, from which I raised 55 pounds; they grew under very unfavorable 

 conditions, as the weather was very hot and tie- soil dry, besides being planted ■ <-ry 

 late. The tubers are of good size, small eye^ and, l smooth Skin. I believe it ii a 

 very productive potato. I shall plant every tuber I have next year. To any one 

 wishing to try a new potato next season I would say plant the Freeman, as it 

 promises to be a very excellent and valuable variety." 



C. G. Williams Gustavus. Ohio: " I received a pound ofthe Freema.i, which I 

 planted about three weeks later than my other potatoes, as the frosts were 

 too frequent to risk them. I am sorry to confess the chance I gave them— timothy 

 sod, with 2 ounces of potato phosphate per hill, no other manure. The yield was 

 74' a pounds of very smooth, white tubers— no scab or rot ; as fine a looking potato 

 as 1 ever saw." 



Charles S. Stubbs, West Elkton, Ohio: "I did not get to plant my Freeman 

 potatoes until very late, and the way the season turned out the ground was not 

 adapted to them very well ; but I got 3 pecks of nice potatoes from the pound of seed. 

 1 think I would have got Hi bushels at least if the season had suited the ground." 



J. W. Ingham. Sugar Run, Pa.: " I have dug the Freeman potatoes raised from 

 seed obtained of William Henry Maule, and am very favorably impressed by them. 

 From 2 pounds of seed cut to a single eye I raised 17s>£ pounds of fine, smooth 

 potatoes, nearly all'marketable. They are a good mealy table potato, not coarse in 

 texture and rank flavor, like some large yielders " 



John X. Krebs, Brodbeck's. Pa. : " The Freeman Potatoes turned out very well, 

 from the single pound I raised 42 pounds. All of your seeds, both flower and 

 vegetable gave very satisfactory results." 



John H. Keagy. Hanover. Pa. : " Freeman Potato is the potato for me, I shall 

 plant no other. You can safely recommend them as the best potato grown. Dixie 

 Watermelon can't be beat, every one who tasted them pronounced them the best 

 they had ever eat, and they are as pretty as pictures. Starn's Muskmelon is splen- 

 did, so is Columbus, but Xew Superior tops them all." 



Xelson Reppert, Virginsville, Pa.: " I am especially pleased with my Freeman 

 Potatoes, they are the finest variety I ever grew, so large and smooth. Getting new 

 seed pays any one. I raised about 8 bushels from my *i peck of Polaris." 



E. Heller, Weaversville. Pa. : " I purchased one peck of your Freeman Potatoes, 

 sold half and planted half peck myself. I dug them \ esterday and found the net 

 weight was 227*^ pounds. I am well pleased with them." 



W. S Smith, Stone Church, Pa. : " My opinion of the Freeman Potatoes is 

 beyond my ability of expression. I planted 2 pounds May 4th : of course planted 

 them so as to get as many hills as possible which was 165. I did not have a very 

 good place to plant them, as I planted corn and beans in front of them, which made 

 too much shade ; and as I was not a practical potato raiser, and ignorant of their 

 wonderful growth, I got them planted too close, only about twenty inches apart 

 each way. Then commenced the drouth, and the pieces being so small they dried 

 up; in fact 35 of the hills did not come up at all, and the rest came on very slow- 

 Some did not come up until eight weeks from the time of planting. Their being 

 planted so close, those that came up first smothered many of the latter ones out. I 

 dug them about the second week in August and got 255 pounds from the part of a 

 pound. They are without doubt the strongest and healthiest growers I ever saw ; 

 in fact, they would shoot out under the ground and come up, making a large hill 

 from one small stalk. A smoother and nicer-shaped potato I never raised." 



Mrs. Wm. Van, Horn, Oregory. Pa : "All the seed bought of you last April 

 proved to be very good. From 1 pound of Freeman we grew 1 bushel of lovely pota- 

 toes, the largest weighing 1 pound." 



Wm, II. Caldwell, Assistant Agriculturist, Penna. State College: "The small 

 quantity of Freeemans S'-nt us did not enable usto plant them upon tlu> samearea 

 as the other varieties. Our potatoes in general rotted very badly. Can say of the 

 Freeman, the tubers are white, smooth, regular shaped, with* shallow eyes, no 

 rotten tubers among them, a variety of much promise." 



J W. Dobbin, Baden, Pa : 'lam very well pleased with the Freeman potato. 

 From 4 pounds of seed I raised 22-5 pounds. I was in too great a hurry planting 

 them, and twice they were badly frozen back by the late frosts. I feel satisfiedthat 

 by later planting I could almost double this yield." 



Frank S. Bender. Carlisle, Pa.: " The Freeman potato turned out better than I 

 expected. From the 2 pounds of seed I raised a littieover 2 bushels. I consider 

 them a fine-looking and an excellent cooking potato " 



i s. McGinnis. Mt. Jackson. Pa. : "The pound of Freeman Potatoes I purchased 

 from you last spring have yielded a hundred-fold. I prize them very highly, on 

 account of the strong and vigorous growth of the tops, the bugs seem to botherthem 

 very little. They should not run out soon as they are so uniform in every respect. 

 All who have seen them are well pleased with them : they are certainly 'dandies.' " 



John G.Dent. Driftwood, Pa. : "I am very well pleased with the Freeman 

 Potato.- They were not put in very good ground, but they yielded well for the 

 chance they had." 



Samuel S. Conard, West Grove, Pa.: "I planted 2 pounds of the Freeman 

 Potatoes last Spring, and from them I raised 100 pounds. Yielded at the rate ot 

 about 350 bushels per acre. I consider them a very tine potato." 



John Dibler, Berrysbnrgh, Pa.: " I raised 61 pounds of Freeman Potatoes from 1 

 pound of seed. I am well pleased with them. " 



John H. Summers, Monroeton, Pa,: "I planted 42 pounds of Freeman potatoes 

 on the 26th of May, it continued wet so I could not hoe them hut once- when I c me 

 to harvest them I had 15 bushels (beauties , smooth and of nice size, more than 

 double the yield of Burbank, Kose and Chas. Downing on same soil and same care ; 

 all the other varieties were worm eaten and scabby, while the Freeman were 

 smooth beauties. The barrel was dividedamong farmers, they all speak in highest 

 term-- ofthe Freeman potato : I am well pleased with my investment." 



Orin smith, Pawtucket. R. I.: " I planted l pound of the Freeman potatoes last 

 spring and harvested 137 pounds of sound potatoes; 120 pounds of them were large 

 enough for the market." 



Nathaniel Wolfe, Brays, Term.: "I am very well pleased with the Freeman 

 potatoes; from 3 pounds I raised 75 pounds." 



H. W. Burr. Dallas, Texas: "I am well pleased with the Freeman Potato The 

 four tubers I received last spring Ieut to one eve. Two or three eyes failed to grow : 

 the balance grew vigorously from the start : they ripened early; the yield I think 

 was one and a half bushels. I regard the silver King Onion as the best of white 

 Italian varieties." 



II. R. Nottingham. Eastville. Va.: " As the Freeman potatoes I planter, were 

 Northern grown I did not expect much of them the lirst season. They ripened a 

 little earlier (about threedays) than tin- Early Rose and Gems and produced more 

 tubers in the hill, but did not grow lame. I have planted them for a second crop 

 and will trv them again next spring, with perhaps better results." 



A. ]■:. Perry. Burke's Garden Ya.: "I am well pleased with the F'reeman in 

 e verv respect. From l li>. [ raised 80 pounds. [ consider this a remarkable yield." 



B, A. Welborn, Yager, Washington : "I planted 3 Freeman potatoes, cut to 32 

 pieces, in clay loam ana, as it happened, in a rather poor place; but [dug on the 

 loth of August 15 pounds of nice well-shaped tubers. They were planted about 

 May isih. and were perfectly ripe when dug." 



Fr. Scheuchzer, North Bend, Washington : " T am very well pleased with the 

 Freeman potatoes, i purchased i ponndof the seed and cave away one of the 

 tubers; the rest i planted in 12 bills and received '- bushels, good measure. The 

 tubers are good-sized. Minn' ofthem weighing 1 ' .. and 2 pounds I planted them in 

 new timber ground and only hoed them once, never lulled it up, ami left them alone 



until two weeks ago. when 1 dug them " 



B T. Be, ■son, Williamstown, W. Va.: " From the 2 pounds of Freeman potatoes 

 received (nun you I raise. 1 128! | pounds. The crop was injured by the heavy frost 

 fioni which our country Buffered lasl spring. 



.1. ('. Turner, Xew London. Wis.-.:' " 1 planted the Freeman the ith of May and 

 harvested them the 10th of Sept Chad 84 pound" of good potatoes; took 01 

 Of them to the Fair and go', firs' premium at the New London Fait and Exposition." 



« Prices of Freeman for 1893 



Pound, 50 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00, postpaid: half peek, $l.OO ; peck. $1. 50 ; linlf budnl, 

 $'3.50; bushel, $1.00 ; barrel, $7.50 ; 3 barrels, Sl'J.50 ; 10 barrels, $85.00, 



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