80 — ISeed Potatoes 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1914 



The Freeman Potato 



THE FREEMAN POTATO. 



Sold for $3.00 Per Poand 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 

 X3otato on the market. 



The tuber is oval in shai:)e 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 biu-st open when boiled 

 with their jackets on, and apx^ear snow 

 wdiite 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- 

 paid. By express or freight, not prepaid, 

 peck, $1.00; bushel, $2.75; barrel, $5.50. 



Early Thoroughbred 



The Quickest Basket Filler 



Maule's Early Thoroughbred was 

 first offered to the public in 1896, at 

 $25.00 a barrel, since which time I have 

 received hundreds of reports of field 

 crops running up to 800 bushels per 

 acre. On account of its earliness it is 

 not much afl^ected by the usual mid- 

 summer and autumn droughts, while 

 in keeping qualities it is unsurpassed 

 by any late variety tinder 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 formex", or at the rate 

 of 2iO bushels an acre for Early Thor- 

 oughbred Potato. "In every hill," says 

 Mr. Terry, "there were great large, 

 beautiful potatoes, such as I bave never 



seen since the first year the old Early ^, a > r-.r. r- . r,, v. 



Rose came around. I was never so sur- MAULt'S EARLY THOROUGHBRED POTATO, 



prised in all my life at any results obtained in potato culture.^^ The i the notato business and to rio^ oa ^^^/i ap ^ -u 

 Early Thoroughbred Is capable of tofuslng new life and profit Into ™aStotrod\?ce£ An eVc?S wlX ner ""'"^^^^ " 



PC.U...1. 30 cents, 3 pound., 75 cents, postpai d. By express or freight, not prepaid, p...., ^B ^l^uXl^^Zl^.BO, S5.00. 



Pure Early Rose 



An Old Standard Favorite Sort 



Every farmer and gardener knows the old Early Rose wta- 

 to, and nothing need be said in its favor. It has no fa^il tt 

 except that ill treatment and neglect sometimes cLse a ^^^^^ 

 or weak strain to be put on thi market uSder the namHf 

 Early Rose seed potatoes. I have been at great pains^ei^ 

 fore to get a true, strong strain of Early Rose ?rown ?n the for 

 North, for my stock, and I can ofTer it as the lurlst mid bett 



lon^ Ve o^?5fnnl''f ^"^t -ever go oSat' fa'wl 

 Jong as the original stock can be obtained 



551 Potato Seed 



t-acket, 15 cts.; 2 packets, 25 cts.; 10 packets. $1.00, postpaid. 



PURE EARLY ROSE POTATO. 



