WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
CULTURE.—Use 8 to 12 bushels of seed potatoes peracre. Cut to two or three eyes. Plant in rows 3 feet apart, and drop 
POTA 15 to 18 inches apart in row. Cultivate constantly and thoroughly. Ridging with loose soil is often practiced but it is 
® not always necessary. Store in frost-proof cellar in winter. Potatoes are planted both early and late. 
Maule’s 
Early Thoroughbred. 
Maule’s Early Thoroughbred was 
first offered to the public in 1896, at 
$25.00 a barrel, since which time I have 
received hundreds of reports of field 
crops running up to 300 bushels per 
acre. On account of its earliness it is 
not much affected by the usual mid- 
Summer and autumn droughts, while 
in keeping qualities it is unsurpassed 
by any late variety under cultivation. 
The illustration does not in any way 
exaggerate its smooth and handsome 
appearance. It produces an unur- 
ually large proportion of merchant- 
abletubers. The potatoes grow closely 
in the hill, and are of large and nearly 
uniform size. Mr. T. B. Terry, the well- 
known Ohio potato grower, made a 
comparative test of Maule’s Early 
Thoroughbred with a potato in favor in 
his neighborhood, the result being as 45 
to 15 in favor of the former, or at the rate 
of 240 bushels an acre for Early Thor- 
oughbred Potato. ‘‘In every hill,” says 
Mr. Terry, ‘there were great large, 
beautiful potatoes, such as I have never 
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seen since the first year the old Early 
Rose came around. There were practi- 
cally no small or medium sizedones. * * * The first year I grew Early | They are quite as early. 
Rose there were a good many tubers as fine and large as these. I have 
never seen any early potatoes on my farm sinceas fine until I dug these. 
* * * They resemble the Rose in shape, color and quality very much. 
MAULE’S EARLY THOROUGHBRED. 
I was never so surprised in all my life at any 
results obtained in potato culture.”’ The Karly Thoroughbred is capable 
of infusing new life and profit into the potato business, and is to-day as 
good, if not better, than when it was first introduced. - 
Maule’s Early Thoroughbred Potato: Lb., 30c.; 3 lbs., 75u., postpaid. By ex. or frt., not prepaid, pk., 75c.; bu., $2.50; bbl., $5.00. 
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH POTATO. 
PURE EARLY ROSE. 
Every farmer and gardener knows the old Early Rose potato, and 
nothing need be said in its favor. It has no faults, except that ill treat- 
ment and neglect sometimes cause a poor or weak strain to be put on 
the market under the naine of Early Rose seed potatoes. I have been 
at great pains, therefore, to get a true and strong strain of Early Rose, 
grown in the far North, for my stock, and 1 can offer it as the purest and 
best that can be had. Indeed, it is the old Early Rose itself, as vigorous 
and productive as ever. Early Rose will never go out of fashion as 
long as the original stock can be obtained. 
Pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, postpaid; By express or 
freight, not prepaid, peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.00; barrel, $4.50. 
i Sor years has had the well earned reputation, of 
Aroostook Co., Maine, being the best potato growing district io the world. 
Years ago I recognized this fact, and my entire supply of seed potatoes is 
annually grown for me under contract by the very best farmers in Aroostook Co., 
who well know what a particular and high class trade I have hud for many 
years in the seed potato line. In consequence of this fact I probably sell more 
seed potatoes direct to the planter than any other seed house in the U. S., and it 
is a great satisfaction for me to have so many of my customers come.back to me | 
year after year for their annual supply. This season my crops are particularly 
clean and fine, and are sure to please the most exacting buyer. 
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POTATO. 
A white-skin, main crop potato; the best of 
Mr. Carman’s introductions. It is a magnifl- 
cent new potato, much resembling Rural New 
Yorker No. 2, of which it is aseedling. It is decia- 
edly better than its parent, the tubers being quite 
uniform in size, with but few small ones among 
them. It is from four to six days later than the 
parent stock. The color is the same, the skin and 
flesh being white. In fact, it can be justly claimed 
for Sir Walter Raleigh that it is the whitest 
} fleshed and finest grained potato on the whole list 
of main-crop varieties, not even excepting the 
Snowflake; and it promises to supersede all other 
sorts of its class on account of its sterling excel- 
lence. On the grounds of the Rural New Yorker 
it proved the best and heaviest cropper of 49 va- 
rieties. It does wonderfully well on my trial 
grounds at Briar Crest and Panmure. It will take 
the place of Carman No. 3, which it equals in a)}i 
respects, and which it excels in table qualities. It 
was given to the world as late as 1897, under the 
claim of being Mr. Carman’s best. That claim has 
been sustained. In field culture it has gone above 
450 bushels to the acre. Its record in all respects 
entitles it to rank with the very best late potatoes 
. now grown upon American soil, and no progres- 
= sive cultivator should fail to give it a trial. 
Lb., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts., by mail, postpaid. 
By express or freight, not prepaid, 
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