LEAMON G. TINGLE, PITTSVILLE. MARYLAND. 



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DIBBLE'S RUSSET — The best main-crop potato I have ever grown. 



SEED POTATOES 



DIBBLE'S BUSSET 



I am giving the introducer's description, and I hon- 

 estly do not believe they can be beat for yield and 

 quality. If there is a better one, I have never 

 grown it. 



"The vines are strikingly distinct ; rich, dark green 

 in color ; very robust and luxuriant in their habit of 

 growth, completely covering the ground at the height 

 of their development ; extremely disease resistant. 

 The tubers are round to oblong in shape, of good size, 

 with pure white flesh, and covered with a russet 

 skin ; few and shallow eyes, and a quality either 

 baked or boiled that cannot be excelled ; they are an 

 excellent market variety. Dibble's Russet is enor- 

 mously productive, as the tubers are as large as those 

 of the Carman family, such as Rurals, Carmans, 

 Raleighs, and the like ; but where these varieties set 

 only three to six tubers to the hill, with us, under 

 identical soil and cultural conditions, the Russet pro- 

 duces six, eight, ten and twelve tubers to the hill. 



"On our own farms the Russet is the best potato 

 we have ever grown. Many of our customers have 

 written us that it has outyielded other sorts two 

 to one, and yields of 300 to 400 bushels to the acre 



are not uncommon, and ninety-nine out of every hun- 

 dred at least write of their wonderful qualities in the 

 highest terms." 



If you are one of the thousands of farmers who 

 plan to grow only enough potatoes for their own 

 use, I earnestly recommend the Russet as the best 

 variety for you to grow on your farm. The Russet 

 has the healthiest foliage, it is the most productive, 

 and the tubers have the best quality of any main-crop 

 variety with which I am acquainted. If you are 

 growing for market and want new seed, plant Dibble's 

 Russet. 



Prices : 75c. per peck ; $2.50 per bushel. Ask for 

 prices if you want a larger quantity. 



IRISH COBBLER 



The Irish Cobbler is the best extra-early White 

 Potato now grown. The tubers are uniformly smooth, 

 round, plump and handsome, creamy white, eyes 

 strong and well developed. The flesh is white and of 

 splendid quality. Cobblers do well anywhere. On 

 Potato soil, or on clay loam or heavy land, they give 

 good results. 



Prices : Same a3 for Dibble's Russet. 



OCTOBER STRAWBERRIES 



One fruit grower in northwestern Missouri has a quarter acre patch of everbearing 

 strawberries that were set early in April. The plants were manured very heavily; the spring 

 and summer months were not excessively hot and there was an abundance of rain. He began 

 picking berries early in July and continued picking from that field until early in November, 

 during which time he picked and sold $416.20 worth of berries. That is the best record for an 

 everbearing strawberry patch that has actually come under my observation, but I have seen 

 a good many other patches that have produced almost as much. From my own experience 

 with everbearing strawberries and from what I have seen of them in other places, I feel that 

 there is a great future for this new race of strawberries and that everyone who can spare the 

 room for them should have a few, say five hundred or a thousand plants. And the fact that 

 the berries come at such an ususual season of the year makes them taste so much better than 

 if they came at the same time as our ordinary spring kinds. The strawberry is a fruit one 

 never tires of eating, and to have the fresh fruit from the field in late summer makes them 

 all the more delicious.— E. H. F. in January 1919 issue of Successful Farming. 



