A NEW POTATO FOR 1896, AND THE BEST ONE YET.——<_em. 
Maule’s Early Thoroughbred Potato. 
Perfection at last attained! As fine flavor as the Freeman, as great a cropper 
as the Irish Daisy, and as early or earlier than Early Ohio. 
HOROUGHBRED besides being so early, is of handsome appearance, superb quality, an enormous yielder, in fact, all whe 
have tried it consider it a perfect potato. The seed this year is limited, so much so that at first I thought of offering it 
only in small quantities ; but after due consideration I have decided to give every one a chance to make a thousand per 
cent. on their investment. No customer who purchased Freeman or Irish Daisy but made an enormous profit on the trans 
action. To every one I have to say that the profit on Thoroughbred will equal the combined profit made by my friends on 
Freeman and Irish Daisy together. 
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Every bushel of Thoroughbreds raised this Spring should readily bring $10.00 in ‘97. Remember 
the boom in Thoroughbreds is not started yet. This year on account of the limited supply, I can give them only one page. 
Next year my Catalogue will not only have a colored plate of Thoroughbreds, but three or four pages of descriptive matter 
as well. This will be the commencement of the boom, and those who order now from this small notice, will make the big 
oney. Read what Mr. Terry had to say about Thoroughbreds in the Practical Farmer of Oct. 5th 1895. 
BLOOD WILL TELL. were 45 pounds. They resemble the Rose in shape, color and quality 
E very much. They are quite early and were ripe entirely before the rains 
Yes it will, no matter whether it is in stock or seed. Last spring, | came, so this great growth was made with little chance. The tops were 
Wm. Henry Maule, the great seedsman, sent me two small tubers of a] not large. They were not as thrifty and promising as the Freemans, 
new early potato to test. They weighed less than half a pound, the two! hence my great surprise when I dug them. 
together. There was nothing in their appearance to indicate that they The two tubers obtained from a farmer's cellar gave me fifteen 
were better than any ordinary potatoes one could pick upin any far-| pounds of rather small potatoes. There were hardly any that you could 
mer’s cellar. I havea good many potatoes sent me to test in this way, | call medium and many small ones. The two lots were each given about 
and often find that they are no better than old varieties. We hada| three hills less than half a square rod to growin. The yield per acre of 
number on trial this year. To make the trial more complete, I got two | Wm. Henry Maule’s potatoes was over 240 bushels. The yield of the 
tubers of about the same size from an old farmer’s stock, and planted | others a little over 80. Here was a difference of 160 bushels per acre, due 
© them by the side of the others. He said they were Early Rose. I can’t} entirely and only to blood. In other words, the vigor and vitality of the 
Say about this, but they are an early kind that he has grown a long time | new seedling enabled it under precisely the same conditions to grow 
= without any change of seed. All these potatoes were cut to one eye and| three times as many bushels. Now don’t think this is an advertise- 
planted precisely as the rest of our field crop was planted. They were} ment of Wm. Henry Maule’s potato. He has never written me a word 
put right in the field, and not on selected ground, but on average. No| about it. When I planted the tubers I thought in all probability I 
manuring or fertilizing whatever was done on the land where they} should never have any occasion to mention it. But there is a great les- 
grew. Nor did they have any extra tillage. We dropped these pieces in| son taught by this little experiment. Thousands of farmers are using 
drills made the same as all over the field, and then treated all the field | seed that has so run out that there is no profit in growing the crop. I 
alike till digging time. I took a fork and threw out the hills planted | would not berash. I am pretty careful myself. But you will make a 
with Mr. Maule’s new early potato, and I never was so surprised in all| mistake if you don’t change seed occasionally and get the benefit of 
my life at any results obtained in potatoculture. In every hillthere were | new blood. In this line of new potatoes we are constantly testing and 
great, large, beautiful potatoes, such as I have never seen since the first | quick to change when it will pay. Weraised the Early Rose largely for 
year the old Early Rose came around. There were practically no small | years; but careful tests made us change 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 FP 
am not exaggerating a bit. The first year I grew the Early Rose there Cm y 
were a good many tubers as fine and large as these. I have never seen ee 7. . S é227244 - 
any early potatoes on my farm since, as fine, until I dug these. There 
RANTEED SEEDS. Address all orders to WM. HENRY MAULE, No. 1711 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. A. 
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Mr. Root, who saw the potatoes at Mr. Terry’s place | herewith is taken accurately from an average specimen; in a 
wrote me for a price; and on my quoting him 5 barrels for | bin of Thoroughbreds you can find thousands the exact coun- 
$100, immediately took them, thus making the first cash | terpart of it. Think the matter over whether you want one 
transaction in the Thoroughbred potato. Mr. Root is a} pound at $1.50, or a barrel at $25.00, and let me have your or- 
© shrewd business man, as well as a practical farmer. Do vou! der at your earliest convenience. Remember the first three 
suppose, when ordinary potatoes were selling at 15 and 25) years of the Freeman and the Irish Daisy, thousands of dol- 
cents per bushel, he would have paid $100 for 5 barrels, if he | lars had to be returned to disappointed customers. History 
did not know there was money in them. The illustration | will repeat itself in Thoroughbreds. 
me—__ PRICES OF THOROUGHBRED FOR 1896._ 
Pound, $1.50; 3 pounds, $3.00; 10 pounds, $7.50, by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, at customer's 
expense, half peck, $3.00; peck, $5.00; half bushel, $7.50; bushel, $12.50; barrel, $25.00. 
T reserve the right to refuse all orders for more than 10 pounds, the moment I see my supply of seed is becoming limited. 
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