82 — Seed Potatoes 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1917 



Maule's 

 Early Thoroughbred 



The Quickest Basket Filler 



Maule's Early Thoroughbred was 

 first ofl'ered to the public in 1896, at 

 825.00 a barrel, since which time we 

 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- 

 Bummer and autumn droughts, while 

 in keeping qualities It is unsurpassed. 

 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. On our trial grounds at 

 Newfield, New Jersey, we made a 

 comparative test of Maule's Eai'ly 

 Thoroughbred with a potato in favor in 

 our neighborhood, the result being 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 there 

 were great large, beautiful potatoes, __ 



such as we have never seen since the 

 first year of the old Early Rose. 



Pound, 30 cts.; 3 pounds, 75 cts., postpaid. 



MAULE'S EARLY THOROUGHBRED POTATO. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, 85 cts.; bu., 83.75; bbl. (Z% bus.), 87.35. 



Irish Cobbler t 



A World Wide Favorite 



It is a most excellent extra early variety, 

 maturing good size tubers seven weeks from 

 time of planting. It has also the remarkable 

 characteristic of producing very few, if any, 

 small potatoes, all the tubers being of mar- 

 ketable size. The ■\'lnes make short, upright 

 growth, so that the hills may be only a short 

 distance apart. The flesh is pure white, with 

 a clean, smooth, white skin; and In qualitj' 

 they are excellent, always cooking dry and 

 mealy. Splendid keepers, and a first-class sort 

 worth the attention of all potato growers. 

 Pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, by mail, 

 postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, 

 peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.75; barrel (2| bus.) , $7.00. 



Note 



Bear in mind that customers may 

 order half pecks of potatoes at peck 

 rates; half bushels at bushel rates. 



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5ir Walter Raleigh 



The Champion Late Sort 



A white-skin, main crop or late potato; the best 

 of Mr. Carman's introductions. It Is a magnifi- 

 cent late 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 trial grounds of the ifjo-a^JVeiii Yorker 

 it proved the best and heaviest cropper of 49 va- 

 rieties. It does wonderfully well on our trial 

 grounds at Newfield, New Jersey. In field cul- 

 ture 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 Ameri- 

 can soil. Succeeds everywhere and Is the style of 

 potato most in demand iu the markets just now. 

 As a winter keeper we know of none better. No 

 progressive cultivator should fail to give It a trial. 

 lib., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts., by mall, postpaid. 

 By exp. or freight, not prepaid, peck, 75 cts.; 

 bushel, S2.75] barrel [%% bus.), $7.00. 



SIR WALTER RALEIGH POTATO. 



