CULTURE—Use 8 to 12 bushels of potatoes per acre. Cut to two or three eyes. Plant in rows 3 feet apart. and drop 15 to 18 
: inches apart in row. Cultivate constantly and thoroughly. Ridging with loose soil is often practiced, but it is not 
always necessary. Store in frost proof cellar in winter. Potatoes are planted both early and late. 
MAULE’S EARLY THOROUGHBRED. 
A GRAND LEADER. 
ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST OF ALL 
MONEY MAKERS. 
Maule’s Early Thoroughbred was 
first offered to the public in 1896, at 
$25.00 a barrel, Since which time [ have 
received hundreds of reports of field 
crops running up to 300 bushels per 
acre. No new potato (except Early 
Rose and Freeman) ever created such 
a furore. On account of its earliness 
it is not much affected by the usual 
mid-summer and autumn droughts, 
while in keeping qualities it is unsur- 
passed by any late variety under cul- 
tivation. In quality it equals the 
Freeman, either baked or boiled, a 
statement which is a high tribute to 
its flavor and table merit. The illus- 
tration does not in any way exaggerate 
its smooth and handsome appearance. 
It produces an unusually large propor- 
tion of merchantable tubers. The po- 
tatoes grow closely in the hill, and are 
of large and nearly uniform size. Mr. 
T. B. Terry, the well-known Ohio pota- 
to grower, says the bearing habit of the 
Early Thoroughbred is a matter of 
blood; that blood will as surely tell in 
seed as in live stock. Mr. Terry made 
a comparative test of Maule’s Early 
Thoroughbred with a potato in favor in 
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his neighborhood; the result being as 45 i F a Fen oh es ere 
to 15 in favor of the former, or at the rate MAULE?S EARLY TT. hOROUGHIBRED. 
of 240 bushels an acre for Early Thoroughbred Potato. ‘In every hill,” | resemble the Rose in shape, color and quality very much. They are 
says Mr. Terry, in describing this experiment, “there were great large, | quite as early.” It was not strange that Mr. Terry, with all his exper- 
beautiful potatoes, such asI have never seen since the first year the | ience, should write: “I was never so surprised in all my life at any results 
old Early Rose came around. There were practically no small or med- i 
jum sized ones. * * * Thefirst year I grew Early Rose there were a | “Thousands of farmers,” he says, “are using seed that has so run out 
good many tubers as fine and large as these. I have never seen any | that there is no profit in growing the crop.” The Early Thoroughbred 
early potatoes on my farm since as fine until I dug these. * * * They | is capable of infusing new life and profit into the potato business. . 
Price of Maule’s Early Thoroughbred Potato; pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, postpaid. By express or freight, peck, 60 cents; 
bushel, $1.75; barrel, $4.00; 2 barrels, $7.50. Special quotation on 5 barrels or over on application. 
\ \y ) ; _EXTRA EARLY RED ROSE, 
j i A wonderfully early new potato from Maine. 
This new potato is a very noteworthy and re- 
markable one, not only in quality but in yield. ‘| 
I will be best understood by saying that it has 5 
the full, high merit of Early Rose and produces g| 
crops equal to the Early Rose of twenty years ¢) 
ago. The criginators say it has every appearance All 
of being a seedling from Early Rose and Early a) 
Ohio, a statement which embodies the highest %| 
praise that can be bestowed upon an early sort. | 
It is colored like the rose, and cuts red. In shape *) 
it is a little more oval than the true Early Rose. §} 
The originators state it is the earliest potato ¢/ 
grown on their extensive potato farms in Maine, si 
maturing well ahead of Rose, Queens or Hebrons. @| 
j/ It is a distinctly new variety, recently put upon a, 
the market, and I have not had opportunity to &! 
make exhaustive trials of it,in comparison with ¢| 
other sorts, but it is a potato that impresses me ,) 
so favorably that I have every confidence in its Ht 
quick success and wide popularity. I can only 4 
say that it is of peculiar promise and worthy of *) 
universal trial among business gardeners. It is ©) 
high bred in every respect, and its initial per- ¢) 
formances are grand. 
Pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, post- 
a 3 ie paid. By express or freight, peck, 75 
E. cents; bushel, $2.00; barrel, $4.25. 
obtained in potato culture.” Mr. Terry’s caution should be heeded. 
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EXTRA EARLY RED ROS 
PURE EARLY ROSE. 
The good old favorite, Pure and True. 
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 treatment and neg- 
lect sometimes cause a poor or weak strain to be put on the market under 
the naine 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 I 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, 
peck, 60 cemts; bushel, $1.75; barrel, $3.75; 5 barrels, $17.50. 
EXTRA EARLY JUNIOR PRIDE. 
Highly endorsed as a wonderful cropper, and early market shipper. i 
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variety is similar to Bliss Triumph in shape but is not the same as White i | 
Triumph being entirely distinct and very much superior so far as table qual- \ 
ity and earliness is concerned. It is a potato that will prove of great value 
to truckers and market gardeners having light or sandy soil, and it will be 
highly prized at the South. Junior Pride is fully as early as Bliss’s Red Tri- 
um ph, and is one of the best pure white early potatoes for table and market. 
Pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, postpaid. By express or freight, 
peck, 60 cents; bushel, $31.75; barrel, $4.00; 2 barrels, $7.50. 
POTATO SEED. 
I have choice potato seed. from the flower ball, for those who wish to experi- = 
ment in the production of new sorts. It requires three years to bring seed- : Ss Al ar ES 
lings up toa marketable size; it is interesting work. Packet, 15 cents. JUNIOR PRIDE. 
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