78 — ISeed Potatoes 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1912 



THE FREEMAN POTATO 



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THE 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 imtil 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 sca - 

 eral weeks in advance of Early Rose. 1 

 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- 

 paid. By express or freight, not prepaid, 

 peck, $1.00; bushel, $2.75; barrel, $6.50. 



Maule's 

 Early Thoroughbred 



The Quickest Basket Filler 



maulE's early thoroughbred potato. 



Maule's Early Thoroughbred was 

 first offered to the public in 1896, at 

 S2o.00 a barrel, since which time I have 

 received hundreds of reports of field 

 crops running up to SOU 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- 

 able tubers. 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 at the 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 

 seen since the first year the old Early 

 Rose came around. I was never so sur- 

 prised in all my life at any results obtained in potato culture." The i 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, $3.50; bbl., $6.00. 



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 tmder 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 ofler 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, $5.50. 



551 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. 



