76 — Seed Potatoes 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1907 



Culture.— Use 8 to 12 bushels of seed potatoes per acre. Cut to two or three eyes. Plant in rows 8 feet apart, and dropi 

 15 to 18 inches apart in row. Cultivate constantly and thoroughly. Ridging with loose soil is often practiced but it lg| 

 * 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 

 825.00 a barrel, since which time X have 

 received hundreds of reports of field 

 crops running up to oOO bushels per 

 acre. On account of Its earliness it is 

 not inuch affected by the usual mid- 

 summer and autumn droughts, while 

 in keeping qualities it is unsurpassed 

 by any late varietj' under cultivation. 

 The illustration does not in any way 

 exaggerate its smooth and handsome 

 appearance. It produces an unus- 

 ually large proportion of merchant - 

 able tubers. 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 -15 

 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 

 seen since the first year the old Early 

 Rose came around. There were practi- 

 cally no small or medium sized ones. * * * The first year I grew Early 

 Rose there were a good many 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. 

 Maule's Elarly Thoroughbred Potato : Lb., 30c.; 3 lbs., 75c 







MAULE'S EARLY THOROUGHBRED. 

 They are quite as early. I was never so surprised in all my life at any 

 results obtained in potato culture." The Early Thoroughbred is capable 

 of infusing new life and profit into the potato business, and is to-day aa 

 good, if not better, than when it was first introduced. 

 postpaid. By ex. or frt., not prepaid, pk., 75c.; bn., $3.50; bbl., S5.00> 



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SIR WALTER RALEIGH 

 POTATO. 



A white-skin, main crop potato; the best oJ 

 Mr. Carman's introductions. It is a 'magnifi- 

 cent new potato, much resembling Rural New 

 Yorker No. 2, of which it is a seedling. It is decid- 

 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 Yorket 

 it proved the best and heaviest cropper of 49 va- 

 rieties. It does wonderfully well on my trlaJ 

 grounds at Briar Crest and Panmure. It will take 

 the place of Carman No. 3, which it equals in al3 

 respects, and which it excels in table qualities. 1% 

 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 mall, postpaldl 

 By express or freight, not prepaid^ 

 peck', 75 cts.; bushel, $3.00; barrel. 9*^^^o 



Pmi 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 name 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, $4.00. 



Arnnctnnk Cn Maino ''o'" vears has had the well earned reputation of 



rtruu^lUU^ \^U., Ifldllie, -^^^^-^ ,^p j,^,, potato prowinp district in the world. 



Years afjo 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 higu class trade I have had 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 



J 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. 



PURE EARLY ROSE 



