QAT M TAFQ Ctjlture.— Grown exclusively from seed tubers; 8 to 12 bushels to an acre. Plant in early spring, in rows 3 feet apart • ^ 



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ORIGINALLY NAMED AND FIRST OFFERED BY ME IN 1896, AT $25.00 PER BARREL. 



with the exception of Early Rose and Freeman, no new potato ever 

 created such a furore among American farmers, and f;ardeners as 

 Maule's Early Thoroughbred. It was tirst offered to the public in 189H, 

 since which time I have received hundreds of reports of field crops run- 

 ning from 300 to 500 bushels and over per acre. 



On account of its extreme earliness, it is not much affected by the 

 usual mid-summer and autumn drouths, while in keeping qualities it 

 is unsurpassed by any late variety now under cultivation. Its many 

 friends enthusiastically pronounce it a perfect potato and a splendid 

 money maker. In quality it equals the Freeman, either bailed or 

 boiled, a statement wliich is a high tribute to its flavor and table merit. 



The illustration is a faithful picture of an average specimen of JIaule's 

 Early Thoroughbred, and does not in any way exaggerate its smooth 

 and liandsome appearance. Another favorable characteristic of this 

 potato is its habit of growth. It produces an unusually large proportion 

 of merchantable tubers. The potatoes grow closely in the hill, and are 

 nearly all of large and uniform size. 



Mr. T. B. Terry, the well-known Ohio potato grower, says the bearing 

 habit of the Early Thoroughbred is a matter of blood, and that blood 

 will as surely tell in seed as in live stock. Mr. Terry was one of the first 

 to test this great potato critically, and after doing so he presented his 

 conclusions to the public in the form of a very Interesting letter pub- 

 lished in the Practical Farmer. He had just two tubers of Maule's 

 Early Thoroughbred, and to make a comparative trial he obtained two 

 similar looking tubers of a favorite local sort. All were cut to one eye, 

 and planted in the open field, along with otlier potatoes. No special 

 manuring or fertilizing was given to the trial patches, nor did they 

 have extra culture. Mr. Terry was surprised when he took a fork 



at digging time and opened the hills. The Maule potato had not shown 

 any conspicuous vigor of tops over the other varieties in the field 

 nor over the local favorite selected for comparison, but the yield of 

 tubers was exactly as 4.5 to 15 in favor of the Maule potato. The 

 acre rate would have been 2-10 bushels of Maule's Early Thoroughbred as 

 compared to 80 bushels of the local potato. It was a difference of 160 

 bushels per acre in favor of blood ! 



In his letter to the Practical Farmer Mr. Terry said : " I was never 

 BO surprised in all my life at any results obtained in potato culture. In 

 every hill there were great, large, beautiful potatoes, such as I. have 

 never seen since the first year the old Early Rose came around. There 

 were practically no small or medium sized ones ; just enormous ones, 

 such as you might perhaps look for under very favorable conditions in 

 a wet season. * * * The first year 1 grew the Early Rose there were a 

 good niany tubers as fine and large as these. I have never seen any 

 early potatoes on my farm since as fine until I dug these. * * * They 

 resemble the Rose in shape, color and quality very much. They are 

 quite as early. Now don't think this is an advertisement of \Vm. Henry 

 Maule's potato," concludes Mr. Terry. "He has never written me a 

 word about it. When I pl.'.«'ElCv*be tubers I thought in all probability I 

 should never have any occk.^ to mention it. But there is a great 

 lesson 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." 



Mr. Terry is right in emphasizing the mistake of using poor seed 

 potatoes. There is great benefit and profit in new blood, and I again 

 offer this grand new potato to the public in full confidence that it will in 

 all sections prove to be as much and even more than Mr. Terry claims 

 for it. I suggest early orders in order to avoid possible disappointments. 



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Q2^£J*J*|^]V I regret to be compelled to caution my patrons against a so-called Thoroughbred potato, sent out by a Western seeds- 

 ^^^^^^^—^^-2 man, and said to be the same as Maule's Early. It is a different and later variety, producing much larger tops, 

 and inferior to the potato described on this page. The genuine stock from original headquarters can be had at J7JI Filbert St., Philadelphia. 



THE BOVEE POTATO. 



This new extra early potato is now attracting 

 wide attention. Its points of excellence, as claimed, 

 are its earliness, productiveness, vigor of growth, 

 quality, smoothness and handsome shape and 

 appearance. It receives its name from its origi- 

 nator, Mr. Marvin Bovee, of Michigan. It is a 

 pink or flesh colored potato, of the shape indicated 

 by the illustration, though perhaps larger. The 

 shape is very uniform. The skin is well netted. 

 It matures from early to extra early, and in table 

 quality is white, dry and mealy. Of this potato 

 the Hiiral New Yorker says: "It would appear 

 that the Bovee is at least twelve days earlier than 

 Early Ohio, but, even though no earlier, the almost 

 perfect shape of the Bovee would win the prize 

 every time over the poorly shaped Early Ohio. It 

 is as perfect in shape as the Freeman, and proba- 

 bly three weeks earlier." The introducers say that 

 Bovee is not only "the earliest, but it takes a 

 leading place among the heavy cropping varie- 

 ties, an unusual thing among first earlies." My 

 own observations on Bovee are favorable, and I 

 do not hesitate to commend it highly. 'The tops 

 are comparatively short and stocky, and the 

 tubers are all bunched together in the hill, and are 

 of good size and quality. 

 Found, 30 cents; 3 ponnds, 75 cents, by mall, 



postpaid. By <-xpress or freight, peck, 

 75 cents; bushel, $2.00; barrel, $4.00. 



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