18 inches apart in row. Cultivate constantly and thoroughly. Ridging with loose soil is often practiced but it is not ¢ 
POTATOES CULTURE.—Use 8 to 12 bushels of potatoes peracre. Cut to two or three eyes. Plant in rows 3 feet apart, and drop 15 to 
8 always necessary. Store in frost-proof cellar in winter. Potatoes are planted both early and late. 

MAULE’S EARLY THOROUGHBRED. 
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Maule’s Early Thoroughbred was 
first offered to the pubiic in 1896, at 
$25.00 a barrel, since which time I have 
received hundreds of reports of field 
crops 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. 
In quality it equals the Freeman, either 
baked or boiled, a statement which is a 
high tribute to its flavor and table 
merit. The illustration does not in any 
way exaggerate its smooth and hand- 
some appearance. It produces an un- 
usually 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 4 
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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Rose came around. There were practi- MAULE’S EARLY THOROUGHBRED. 
cally no small or medium sizedones. * * * Thefirst yearl grew Early | They are quite as early. I was never so surprised in all my life at any 
Rose there were a good many tubers as fine and large as these. I have | results obtained in potato culture.’”’ The Early Thoroughbred is capable 
never seen any early potatoes on my farm since as fine until I dug these. | 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., 75c., postpaid. By express or freight, pk., 50c.; bu., $1.50; bbl., $3.75. 
SIR WALTER RALEIGH POTATO. 
A new, white-skin, main crop potato; the best 
of Mr. Carman’s introductions. It is a magnifi- 
cent new potato, much resembling Rural New 
Yorker No. 2, of which it is aseedling. It is decid- 
edly better than its parent, the tubers being quite 
uniform in size, with but fewsmall ones among 
them. It is from four to six days later than the 
parent stock. The color is the same, the skin and 
flesh being white. In fact, it can be justly claimed 
for Sir Walter Raleigh that it is the whitest 
fleshed and finest grained potato on the whole list 
of main-crop varieties, not even excepting the iii 
Snowflake; and it promises to supersede all other J} 
sorts of its class on account of its sterling excel- 
lence. On the grounds of the Rural New Yorker 
it proved the best and heaviest cropper of 49 va- 
rieties. It is comparatively new, as above said, \KW 
but it is already one of the leading prize winners | 
at the fairs, and people who have tried it speak of 
it in terms of extravagant praise. It is much dis- 
cussed everywhere, and it evidently possesses 
great excellence, both in table quality and asa 
cropper. Itisingreatdemand. It does nobly on my 
trial grounds at Briar Crest and Panmure. It will 
take the place of Carman No. 3, which it equals in 
all respects, and which it excels in table qualities. 
It was given to the world as late as 1897, under the 
claim of being Mr. Carman’s best. That claim has 
been sustained, though it is the only seedling of 
Rural New Yorker No. 2 that has proved to be really 
better than its parent. In field culture it has gone 
above 450 bushels to the acre. Its record in all re- 
spects entitles it to rank with the very best late 
potatoes now grown upon American soil, and no 
progressive cultivator should fail to give it a trial. 
Lb., 30c.; 3 lbs., 75c., by mail, postpaid. By ex- 
Oc.:; bu.., $1.59; bh], $3.50. 
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH POTATO. 
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 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 
NK long as the original stock can be obtained. 
iii Pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, postpaid; By express or 
freight, peck, 50 cents; bushel, $1.50; barrel, $3.50. 
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; it is interesting work. PKt., 15c: 































































































































































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