



EUREKA 
EXTRA EARLY POTATO 
-THE COMING FAVORITE.— 
None More Quick to Mature—None Finer—None More Proof Against Drought and Blight. 
None So Free From Second Growth. 
For seven years I watched the development of 
this grand early potato and in 1901 I offered it to 
the public for the first time; but in very small 
quantities, not more than 8 pounds being sold to 
a single customer. Eureka has certainly been well 
ied named, for it combines more good qualities than 
any other extra early variety I know of 
As to its origin and history, the originator says 
of it: “Eureka Extra Early was a chance -hill 
< found growing in a field of Karly Morn potatoes, 
season of 1895. In looking over the field a single 
plant was noticed distinct from the rest, which 
died while all the others were still green. On 
digging, nine large tubers and several unmer- 
chantable ones were found, which were slightly } 
different in shape from the Harly Morn. Every 
tuber was saved and planted the following spring. 
“Stock has been worked up ever since, and it has 
Z neyer failed to produce a large crop of extra early 
) 4 potatoes.. The plant is dwarf and compact, ma- 
turing in advance of the Early Rose and Bovee. 
It never has had the blight. The tubers are round, 
slightly flattened. White skin, free from disease. 
Flesh, white and mealy; no cores or black specks. 
Quality unsurpassed. i 
“One point alone which makes it valuable is 
that it has never taken second growth, and resists { 
drought better than any other potato I have ever 
grown. Grown side by side with the Bovee it 
produced a third more large tubers, and matured } 
ten days in advance of Bovee. The potatoes were 
perfect, while the Bovee took second growth.” 
Nothing in this catalogue promises a greater 
\2 money return, to those who invest in it, than this 
© potato. An investment of $8.00 by one of my 
customers in Colorado, the first year I offered 
Freeman potato made $2700 in actual cash inside 
of three years. The illustration is an exact repre- 
. sentation, drawn from nature. It shows a cluster 
from a single hill, reduced in size 
}: North, South, East and West, Eureka the past 
aa summer came off with flying colors, and as I pre- 
@ dicted, my stock, while larger than ever before, 
2 was entirely disposed of early in the season. 
3 Much to my regret inany customers not ordering 
gq in time had to be disappointed, owing to the fact 
g that I was sold out early in March. I again 
advise early orders, for while my stock is larger 




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than last year, the demand for Eureka is simply : Sn FROM SIZE. 
a astonishing, and the chances are that I will be SS 2/3 
Z sold out as early in 1905 as I was in 1904. 
Pound, 40 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00, by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, peck, 75 cents; 
half bushel, $1.25; bushel, $2.25; barrel, $5.00. 


THE RELIANGE POTATO. 
First Offered Last Year at $3.00 per Pound, and not 
More than 5 Pounds Sold a Single Customer. 
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My friend, Mr. O. H. Alexander, of Vermont, some time ago called 
my attention to this new variety, in which he takes special pride. He 
stated that, as the original introducer of the Freeman, I was the only 
proper person to put his New Reliance on the market. I quote as fol- 
lows from Mr. Alexander’s description: ‘‘Alexander’s Reliance potato 
was raised in 1885 from a ball of Old Excelsior, which was one of the 
most prolific varieties in its day. The vines grow to a medium height; 
leaves large; tubers good size and handsome appearance, resembling 
somewhat the Snow Flake and the Freeman; they are roundish and 
slightly flattened; eyes small, somewhat pinkish; skin white; flesh 
white; cooks well, so well indeed, that it is fully equal to the Freeman 
in quality. So far it has proven very hardy in my ground, outyield- 
ing the Green Mountain and maturing about six days earlier than 
that variety. This year has been an unusually hard year in this 
locality for potatoes, and it has given all my new sorts a hard test, 
but the Reliance yields the heaviest of any out of forty varieties.” 
t Reliance was offered last season by the pound only at an extravagant 
| H price; this year lam glad to be able to offer it in quantity, although 
H Wi } naturally the price is still high. I have set aside 300 bushels to be soid 
Ny this season, and as long as these hold out, I will furnish them to my 
customers at the following figures: 
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| H Pound, 75 cents; 3 pounds, $1.50, by mail, postpaid. 
| By express or freight, peck, $1.50; half bushel, $2.50; bushel, 
$5.00; barrel, (234 bushels) $10.00. 
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For prices and description of the New ‘‘Noroton Beauty” Potato 
offered this year for the first time see page 22. 
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