78—Seed Potatoes THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1911 
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FREEMAN POTATO 
- — Twenty Years of Triumph 
Sold for $3.00 Per Pound in 1891 
The Freeman is a strong grower, contain- 
ing fresh, vigorous blood. It is early in 
reaching maturity; productive, and univer- 
sally admitted to be the finest flavored 
potato on the market. 
The tuber is oval in shape and russet in 
color. The flesh is very white, both raw 
and when cooked, fine grained and of best 
flavor. The greatest merits of this variety 
are its extreme earliness and long keeping 
qualities. From the time the tubers are as 
large as hens’ eggs until new potatoes come 
the next year they burst open when boiled 
with their jackets on, and appear snow 
white and floury. 
They grow very thickly and ripen sev- 
eral weeks in advance of Early Rose. I 
have frequently dug six to nine pounds 
from a single hill, and in rich ground there 
are few small ones. 
Pound, 40 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00, post- 
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AN POTATO. f peck, $1.00; bushel, $2.75; barrel, $5.50. 
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Maule’s 
Barly Thoroushbred 
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Maule’s Early Thoroughbred was \ ANY \ 
first offered to the public in 1896, at \v \\ 
$25.00 a barrel, since which time I have \\ 
received hundreds of reports of field 
erops running up to 300 bushels per 
acre. On account of its earliness it is 
not 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 
appearance. It produces an unus- 
ually large proportion of merchant- 
abletubers. The potatoes grow closely 
in the hill, and are of large and nearly 
uniform size. 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 atthe rate 
of 240 bushels an acre for Early Thor- 
oughbred Potato. ‘‘In every hill,” says 
Mr. Terry, ‘there were great large, = 
beautiful potatoes, such as I have never Ai ; = 
seen’ since the first year the old) Early MAULE’S EARLY THOROUGHBRED POTATO. 
Rose came around. I was never so sur- : | 
prised in all my life at any results obtained in potato culture.’’ They] the potato business, and is to-day as good, if not better, than when it 
Early Thoroughbred is capable of infusing new life and profit into] was first introduced. 
Pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.50; bbl., $5.00. 
Pure Early Rose 
An Old Standard Favorite Sort 
Every farmer and gardener knows the old Early Rose pota- 
to, and nothing need be said in its favor. It has no faults, 
except that ill treatment 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, there- 
fore, to get a true, 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, not prepaid, peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.25; barrel, $4.50. 
s1 POTATO SEED 
SEED FROM THE FLOWER BALL.—I have choice potato 
seed from the flower ball, for those who wish to experiment | 
in the production of new sorts. It requires three years to 
bring seedlings up to a marketable size. Packet, 15 cents. 
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