Maule's Early Thoroughbred Potato 



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Originally named and first offered by me in '96 at $25 per barrel. 



With the exceptions of the Early Rose and Freeman Pota- 

 to, no other variety has ever created such a furore as has 

 been produced by Maule's Early Thoroughbred. In an un- 

 favorable potato year like 1897, hundreds of growers of Thor- 

 oughbreds report yields of 200 to 400 bushels per acre. On ac- 

 count of its extreme earliness, it is not afTected by the usual 

 late vSummer and Fall droughts, while its keeping qualities 

 are not surpafsed by any late variety in cultivation to-day. 

 Enthusiastically pronounced by all who have tried it, a per- 



fect potato and a wonderful money maker. In quality it 

 equals the Freeman, either baked or boiled, which is saying a 

 good deal. The illustration herewith is an exact representa-( 

 tion of an average specimen of Maule's Thoroughbred, and its 

 smooth and handsome appearance is accurately shown. An- » 

 other point to be considered is the fact that Maule's Early ' 

 Thoroughbred potatoes produce an unusually large propor- S 

 tion of merchantable tubers; they grow so compactly in the S 

 hills, and a small potato is seldom seen. e 



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Read what Mr. T. B. Terry, the celebrated potato grower of Ohio, has to say about Thoroughbreds in THE PRACTICAL FARMER : 



BLOOD WILL TELL. 



Yes it will, no matter whether it is in stocli or seed. Last spring, 

 Wm. Henry Maule, the great seedsman, sent mie two small tubers of a 

 new early potato to test. They weighed less than half a pound, the two 

 together. There was nothing in their appearance to indicate that they 

 were better than any ordinary potatoes one could pick up in any far- 

 mer's cellar. I have a good many potatoes sent me to test in this way, 

 and often find that they are no better than old varieties. We had a 

 number on trial this year. To make the trial more complete, 1 got two 

 tubers of about the same size from an old farmer's stock, and planted 

 them by the side of the others. He said they were Early Rose. I can't 

 say about this, but they are an early kind that be has grown a long time 

 without any change of seed. All these potatoes were cut to one eye and 

 planted precisely as the rest of our field crop was planted. They were 

 put right in the field, and not on selected ground, but on average. No 

 manuring or fertilizing whatever was done on the land where they 

 grew. Nor did they have any extra tillage. We dropped these pieces in 

 drills made the same as all over the field, and then treated all the field 

 alike till digging time. I took a fork and threw out the hills planted 

 with Mr. Maule's new early potato, and I never was so 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 

 ones, or medium sized ones, just enormous ones, such as you might per- 

 haps look for under very favorable conditions in a wet season. Now I 

 am not exaggerating a bit. The first year I grew the 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. There 



were 45 pounds. They resemble the Rose in shape, color and quality 

 very much. They are quite early and were ripe entirely before the rains 

 came, so this great growth was made with little chance. The tops were 

 not large. They were not as thrifty and promising as the Freemans, 

 hence my great surprise when I dug them. 



The two tubers obtained from a farmer's cellar gave me fifteen 

 pounds of rather small potatoes. There were hardly any that you could 

 call medium and many small ones. The two lots were each given about 

 three hills less than half a square rod to grow in. The yield per acre of 

 Wni. Henry Maule's potatoes was over 240 bushels. The yield of the 

 others a little over 80. Here was a difference of 160 bushels per acre, due 

 entirely and only to blood. In other words, the vigor and vitality of the 

 new seedling enabled it under precisely the same conditions to grow 

 three times as many bushels. Now don't think this is an advertise- 

 ment of Wm. Henry Maule's potato. He has never written me a word 

 about it. When I planted the tubers I thought in all probability 1 

 should never have any occasion to mention it. But there is a great les- 

 son 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. I 

 would not be rash. I am pretty careful myself. But you will make a 

 mistake if you don't change seed occasionally and get the benefit of 

 new blood. In this line of new potatoes we are constantly testing and 

 quick to change when it will pay. We raised the Early Rose largely for 

 years; but careful tests made us change to Early Beauty of Hebron, 

 Snowflake, Monroe Seedling, etc., as these newer varieties came out. 



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MR. TERRY WAS OFF ERED $10.00 FOR A SINGLE TUBER IN THE FALL OF 1895. s 



^^£31*1^8^]^ I must caution my customers against a potato, introduced by a Western seedsman, under the name of Thoroughbred, » 

 * and claimed to be the same as Maule's. It is a different variety, however, in dozens of trials proving to be a week » 

 later, producing much larger tops, and in every way I consider it is inferior to MAULE'S EARLY THOROUGHBRED. If you wish * 

 the genuine Maule's Early Thoroughbred potato, send your order direct to I7JJ Filbert St.; or if you buy from others, be sure to get stock t 

 raised from seed obtained from me. A word to the wise is sufficient. i!i.^ik&.Jk.%.^S/.i!i.Jk^:!kJk2k.^Si.^ik^SkSkZ 



As I anticipate an enormous demand for this celebrated 

 potato this year, I would advise early orders, as I think, as in 

 the case of the third year of the Freeman Potato, every one 

 having the genuine Thoroughbreds for sale will be sold out 

 long before the end of the season. While my own supply 



runs into the thousands of bushels, I am very sure, from past a 

 experience, it will not come anywheres near filling my re- 2. 

 quirements, especially as I have decided to ofTer it at the fol- 9 

 lowing reasonable prices, considering this is the third year jT 

 of its introduction : ^ 



Pound, 50 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00, by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, peck, $1.00; 

 one^'half bushel, $1.73; bushel, $3.00; barrel, $6.00; 10 barrels, $30.00. 



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