68 — Vegetable Seeds 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1916 



Maule's Select Onion Seed 



CuLTtJKE.— Onions do best on a rich loam, previously cultivated for 

 two years. Stiff clay and light sand are equally unfavorable. The land 

 should be highly fertilized with well-rotted manure, complete fertiliz- 

 ers, etc. Fresh stable manure has a tendency to produce soft onions. 

 Prill in 4 to 5 lbs. of seed per acre, one-halt inch'deep. If sets are wanted, 

 use 60 to 80 lbs. of seed per acre. .Six to ten bushels of sets will plant an 



acre. Fine marketable size onions (according to variety planted) are 

 easily produced the first year from early spring sown "seed. Culture 

 should be frequent though shallow. The same ground may be used for 

 onions, season after season, if well fertilized annually. Bone meal is an 

 excellent fertilizer. Winter storage demands dryness and protection 

 from sudden changes. Onions should never be handled while frozen. 



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Maule's Prizetaker Onion 



Headquarter's Stock can be obtained only from Wm. Henry Maule, Inc. 



We named and iotroduced this great onion in 1888, and ever 

 since have given it special prominence in every catalogue we 

 have issued. Today, twenty-eight years after it was named by 

 us, it will be found illustrated in almost every catalogue. 



Prizetaker is by far the handsomest, most productive, most 

 popular and best of all Yellow Globe onions. It is a bright, 

 clear straw color, and always grows to a uniform shape, which 

 is a perfect globe. It has a very small neck, and ripens up 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; quarter pound, 60 cents; pound, $2.00, postpaid. 



without stifTuess of the neck. In market it never fails to 

 attract attention on account of its beauty, and is sure to bring 

 a far better price than any other onion. Maulers Prizetaker 

 has attracted more attention and awakened wider and mori 

 cordial enthusiasm than any other onion ever introduced to th( 

 American public. It is the largest, finest flavored and most 

 superior Yellow Globe onion under cultivation for either 

 the home garden or market. 



Reduce the Gost of Living 



"The gardening season has been marked by unusual scenes in and about Berlin. Everywhere on unoccupied lots people have 

 spaded up the earth. The lots have been divided into smaller parcels and turned over to families willing to cultivate them. The 

 city has helped by appropriating money and contributing 15,000 loads of fertilizer from the City Stock Yards. What is being 

 done in Berlin is repeated in every city in Germany. In this way it is expected that the potato crop of 1915 will be the largest ever 

 grown in Germany and the supply of all other vegetables will be greatly increased. " — Extract from Berlin paper, July 15, 1915. 



What Berlin is doing in war times, we should do in times of peace. It is admitted that the cost of living has been increased 

 in the United States at least 20% within the past five years. It can be greatly reduced by growling your own vegetables. 

 It is amazing how much can be accomplished on a small piece of ground by the expenditure of a few dollars for seeds and an 

 hour or two of labor each day. 



