CULTURE.—Use 8 to 12 bushels of seed potatoes per acre. 
Cut to two or three eyes. Plant in rows 8 feet apart, and drop 


Maule’s 
Early Thoroughbred. 
, Maule’s Early Thoroughbred was 
first offered to the public in 1896, at 
_ $25.00 a barrel, since which time I have 
received hundreds of reports of field 
ij, crops running up to 3800 bushels per 
*acre. On account of its earliness it is 
“inot much affected by the usual mid- 
“summer and autumn droughts, while 
in keeping qualities it is unsurpassed 
“by any late variety under cultivation. 
The illustration does not in any way 
)/exaggerate its smooth and handsome 
ujappearance. It produces an unus- 
‘ually large proportion of merchant- 
iable tubers. The potatoes grow closely 
“in the hill, and are of large and nearly 
“uniformsize. Mr. T. B. Terry, the well- 
known Ohio potato grower, made a 
(,comparative test of Maule’s Early 
/Thoroughbred with a potato in favor in 
|his neighborhood, the result being as 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,” says 
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seen since the first year the old Harly 
\]Rose came around. There were practi- 
| 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. 
Maule’s Early Thoroughbred Potato: 
" cally no small or medium sized ones. * * * The first year I grew Early | They are quite as early. 



MAULE’S EARLY THOROUGHBRED. 
I was never so surprised in all my life at any 
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. 
lb., 30c.; 3 Ibs., 75u., postpaid. 
By express or freight, pk., 75c.; bu., $2.00; bbl., $4.25. 

SIR WALTER RALEIGH 
POTATO. 
A white-skin, main crop potato; the best of 
|\Mr. Carman’s introductions. It is a magnifi- 
}j)cent new potato, much resembling Rural New 
Be No. 2, of which it is aseedling. It is decid- 

edly better than its parent, the tubers being quite 
2 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 
tk flesh being white. In fact, it can be justly claimed 
“for Sir Walter Raleigh that it is the whitest | Hi 
|, fleshed and finest grained potato on the whole list \ 
Of main-crop varieties, not even excepting the |i \ 
jv Snowflake; and it promises to supersede all other 
\sorts of its class on account of its sterling excel- | 
i'lenece. On the grounds of the Rural New Yorker 
‘ it proved the best and heaviest cropper of 49 va- 
, rieties. It does wonderfully well on my trial 
grounds at Briar Crest and Panmure. It will take 
f the place of Carman No. 3, which it equals in all 
‘respects, and which it excels in table qualities. It 
Jf was given to the world as late as 1897, under the 
|\claim of being Mr. Carman’s best. That claim has 
been sustained. In field culture it has gone above 
450 bushels to the acre. Its record in all respects 
i entitles it to rank with the very best late potatoes 
_now grown upon American soil, and no progres- 
sive cultivator should fail to give it a trial. 
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH POTATO. 
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, $2.00; barrel, $4.00. 
H 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 had 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 particularly 
clean and fine, and are sure to please the most exacting bwyer. 
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