THE BEST ONE YET.. 



l Maule s E arl y Thoroughbred Potato. 



* Perfection at last attained* As fine flavor as the Freeman^ as great a 

 I cropper as the Irish Daisy, and as early or earlier than Early Ohio. 



125 to 150 to I the reported yield of hundreds of my customers 

 who planted Thoroughbred last season. 



f Mauie's Early Thoroughbred besides being so early, is of liandsome appearance, superb 

 § quality and an enormous yielder; in fact, all who have tried it consider it a perfect potato. Last 

 > year it sold at $25'.oo per barrel; this year's prices are: Lb., ^o cents; 3 lbs., $1.00; 10 lbs., $2.^0, 

 I postpaid. Half pk., 75 cents; pk., ^1.2^; half bu., ^2.00; bu., $^.j^; bbl., ^7.50; 2 bbls., $12.^0; 

 ? 10 bbls., $50.00, which allows every gardener in America to try this phenomenal variety. Read 

 I what Mr. T. B. Terry, the celebrated potato grower of Ohio, has to say about Thoroughbreds in 

 • THE PRACTICAL FARMER: 



'Z BLOOD WILL TELL. I were 45 pounds. They resemble the Rose in shape, color and quality 



>a very much. They are quit* early and were ripe entirely before the rains 



Yes it will, no matter whether it is in stock or seed. Last spring, I came, so this great growth was made with little chance. The tops were 



not large. They were not as thrifty and promising as the Freeman s, 

 hence my great surprise when I dug them. 



The two tubers obtained from a farmer's cellar gave me fifteen 

 pounds of rather small potatoes. There were hardly any that you could 

 call medium and many small ones. The two lots were each given about 

 three hills less than half a square rod to grow in. The yield per acre of 

 Wm. Henry Mauie's potatoes was over 240 bushels. The yield of the 

 others a little over 80. Here was a difference of 160 bushels per acre, due 

 entirely and only to blood. In other words, the vigor and vitality of the 

 new seedling enabled it under precisely the same conditions to grow 

 three times as many bushels. Now don't think this is an advertise- 

 ment of \Vm. Henry Mauie's potato. He has never written me a word 

 about it. When Iplanted the tubers I thought in all probability I 

 should never have any occasion to mention it. But there is a great les- 

 son taught by this little experiment. Thousands of farmers are using 

 seed that has so run out that there is no profit in growing the crop. I 

 would not be rash. I am pretty careful myself. But you will make a 

 mistake if j'ou don't change seed occasionally and get the benefit of 



* Wm. Henry Maule, the great seedsman, sent me two small tubers of „ 

 S new early potato to test. They weighed less than half a pound, the two 



* together. There was nothing in their appearance to indicate that they 

 J were better than any ordinary potatoes one could pick up in any faf- 



* mer's cellar. I have a good many potatoes sent me to test in this way, 

 ,g and often find that they are no better than old varieties. We had a 

 >5 number on trial this year. To make the trial more complete, I got two 

 < tubers of about the same size from an old farmer's stock, and planted 



them by the side of the others. He said they were Early Rose. I can't 

 ^ say about this, but they are an early kind that he has grown a long time 

 5 without any change of seed. All tliese potatoes were cut to one eye and 

 g planted precisely as the rest of our field crop was planted. They were 

 g put right in the field, and not on selected ground, but on average. No 

 3C manuring or fertilizing whatever was done on the land where they 

 « grew. Nor did they have any extra tillage. We dropped these pieces in 

 ~ drills made the same as all over the field, and then treated all the field 



* alike till digsring time. I took a fork and threw out the hills planted 



* with Mr. Mauie's new early potato, and I never was so surprised in all 



my life at any results oht.iined in potato culture. In every hill there were i new blood. In this line of new potatoes we are constantly testing and 



2 great, large, beautiful potatoes such as I have never seen since the first 1 quick to change when it will pay. We raised the Early Rose largely for 

 J year the old Early Rose came around. There were practically no small years; but careful tests made us chanse to Early Beauty of Hebron, 

 -< ones, or medium sized ones, just enormous ones, such as you might per- Snowflake, Monroe Seedling, etc., as these newer varieties came out. 



< haps look for under very favorable conditions in a wet season. Now I ^.y—^ ^--» (^ ~ 



3 am not exaggerating a bit. The first year I grew the Early Rose there (^/^ /iyk J Z 



3 were a good many tubers as fine and large as these. I have never seen i / /V^ J ^ i^'''i^'%^^t^ 



u any early potatoes on my farm since, as fine, until I dug these. There \y ' -^ ^-^ • f ^ 



iMr. Terry was offered $10.00 for a Single Tuber in the Fall of 1895. 



J (22HITI0JV ^ raust eautiou my ciisitomei's against a potato, introduced by a Western seedsman, under tlie name of 

 i * Thoroughbred, and claimed to be the same as Mauie's. It is a different variety, however, in dozens of 

 s trials proving to be a week later, producing much larger tops, and in every way I consider it is inferior to flaule's Early 

 Bi Thoroughbred. If you wi.sh ihe genuine Mauie's Early Thoroughbred potato," send your order direct to 1711 Filbert St.; or 

 « if you buy from others, be sure to get stock raised from seed obtained from me last year. A word to the wise is sufficient. 

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1 T HAD INTENDED giving four or five pages to Thoroughbred.s this 3'ear ; in fact, I could 

 ^ I fill this entire Catalogue with testimonials from delighted customers ; but I have deter- 

 g mined to reduce the amount of space, and give m}' friends the benefit in the way of low 

 ^ prices. I really believe I could sell every Thoroughbred I have at $15.00 per barrel this season, 

 f and they are well worth it; but in connection with the general reduction in prices made all 

 « through this book. I have also reduced Thoroughbreds ; and while it was mv first intention to 



2 offer these potatoes at $15.00, in view of my low Onion seed and other |)rices, and the fact that 

 « you can buy Mauie's Seeds in packets at half price, 1 have determined to make the nu)st reason- 

 s able figures I have ever made on a new variety of potatoes, which are as follows • 



^ Pound, 50 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00; 10 pounds, $2.50, postpaid. 



* Half peck,75 cents; peck, $1.25; one^haif bushel, $2.00; bushel, $3.75; 



I barrel, $7.50; 2 barrels, S12.50; 10 barrels, $50.00. 



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