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WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
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CuLTURE.—Use 8 to 12 bushels of seed potatoes per acre. 
Cut to two or three eyes. Plant in rows 3 feet apart, and drop 
rst offered to the public in 1896, at 
25.00 a barrel, since which time I have 
eceived hundreds of reports of field 
rops running up to 300 bushels per 
ere. On account of its earliness it is 
ot much affected by the usual mid- 
ummer and autumn droughts, while 
1 keeping qualities it is unsurpassed 
y any late variety under cultivation. 
‘he illustration does not in any way 
xaggerate its smooth and handsome 
ppearance. It produces an unus- 
ally large proportion of merchant- 
bletubers. The potatoes grow closely 
1 the hill, and are of large and nearly 
niform size. Mr. T. B. Terry, the well- 
nown Ohio potato grower, made a 
omparative test of Maule’s Harly 
| horoughbred with a potato in favor in 
is neighborhood, the result being as 45 
9 15in favor of the former, orat the rate 
f 240 bushels an acre for Early Thor- 
ughbred Potato. ‘‘In every hill,” says 
fr. Terry, “there were great large, 
eautiful potatoes, such as I have never 
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dl OTATOES 15 to 18 inches apart in row’ Cultivate constantly and thoroughly. Ridging with loose soil is often practiced but it is 
H 8 not always necessary. Store in frost-proof cellar in winter. Potatoes are planted both early and late. 
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| Maule’s Early Thoroughbred was 
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2en since the first year the old Early 
tose came around. There were practi- 
ally no Small or medium sized ones. 
tose there were a good many tubers as fine and large as these. 
ever seen any early potatoes on my farm sinceas fine until I dug these. 
* * * The first year I grew Early | They are quite as early. 
=== MHENRN MALE, 
I was never so surprised in all my life at any 
I have | results obtained in potato culture.’”’ The Early Thoroughbred is capable 
of infusing new life and profit into the potato business, and is to-day as 
'* * They resemble the Rose in shape, color and quality very much. | good, if not better, than when it was first introduced. 
| Maule’s Early Thoroughbred Potato: Ib., 30c.; 3 lbs., 75u., postpaid. By express or freight, pk., 75c.; bu., $2.50; bbl., $5.00. 
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 
POTATO. 
{A white-skin, main crop potato; the best of 
{r. Carman’s introductions. It is a magnifi- 
ent new potato, much resembling Rural New 
yorker No. 2, of which it is aseedling. It is decid- 
lly better thanits parent, the tubers being quite 
niform in size, with but few small ones among 
It is from four to six days later than the 
arent stock. The color is the same, the skin and 
esh being white. In fact, it can be justly claimed |} 
xr Sir Walter Raleigh that it is the whitest 
eshed and finest grained potato on the whole list 
|’ main-crop varieties, not even excepting the 
10wflake; and it promises to supersede all other 
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nee. On the grounds of the Rural New Yorker 
/proved the best and heaviest cropper of 49 va- 
eties. It does wonderfully well on my trial 
‘ounds at Briar Crest and Panmure. It will take 
ie place of Carman No. 3, which it equals in all 
yspects, and which it excels in table qualities. It 
‘as given to the world as late as 1897, under the 
vaim of being Mr. Carman’s best. That claim has 
2en Sustained. In field culture it has gone above 
0 bushels to the acre. Its record in all respects 
ititles it to rank with the very best late potatoes 
dW grown upon American soil, and no progres- 
ve cultivator should fail to give it a trial. 
b., 30c.; 3.1bs., 75c., by mail, postpaid. By ex= 
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PURE EARLY ROSE. 
PURE 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, peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.25; barrel, $4.50. 
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i for years has had the well earned reputation of ¢ 
Aroostook Co., Maine, being the best potato growing district in the world. 
Years ago 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 high class trade I have hud 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 
year after year for their annual supply. This season my crops are particucarly 
clean and jine, and are sure to please the most exacting buyer. 
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