WALTER S. SCHELL'S QUALITY SEEDS FOR MARKET-GARDENERS 
Thousands and thousands of sacks of our Pure-Bred. High-yielding Seed Potatoes are stored here ready for shipment to 
.all parts of the countr>' as soon as weather conditions are safe. Have you sent us your order? 
SCHELL'S QUALITY SEED POTATOES 
Grown in Maine and brought in sealed cars direct from the farms to my warehouse 
HOW TO GROW POTATOES. — You can grow Potatoes anywhere in good, rich, loose, well-drained soil if weather 
conditions are right. It requires 10 to 12 bushels (4 sacks) to plant an acre, which should produce from 200 to 300 bushels. 
A Potato can he cut in two, three, or four pieces and each piece should contain two or three eyes. Plant these pieces 15 
inches apart in the rows. First work the soil thoroughly, make rows 2 to 3 feet apart for hand or horse cultivation; open a 
furrow 4 inches deep in each row; then put in your fertilizer (mix thoroughly with the soil) and plant the pieces in these 
furrows. Cultivate often and spray every ten days or two weeks with Pyrox to kill the bugs and prevent blight. To plant 
a row 100 feet long, 80 pieces are required. 
Prices, -^"y tJ** following varieties $8.50 per sack (of bu.s. or 165 lbs.) This price is low considering 
' the great shortage of the Potato crop and that it is for the highest quality seed stock. 
PRICES FOR SMALL QUANTITIES, bus. (60 lbs.) $3.50, Vibus. $1.75, pk. $1, Vzpk. 55 cts., Vipk. 
35 cts. (These prices are at our store or by express, not prepaid.) 
POSTPAID PRICES, 4 lbs. 50 cts., 8 lbs. 90 cts., 15 lbs. (pk.) $1.40, 30 lbs. (Vjbus.) $2.35. 
PLEASE NOTE. — All prices are subject to change with the market. Send your order at once at these prices, 
and if the price has advanced when your order is received we will advise you before shipping. Better get your order 
in at these low prices. 
We will enter all orders received from January i on and hold them until weather conditions are such as to make 
it safe to ship. Two years ago we booked orders at $8.50 per sack and by time for delivery the price had advanced 
to $14. We filled all orders booked and saved our customers many thousands of dollars. The potato crop of this 
country, according to our government report, is about 90 million bushels short, and at any rate you want our 
Seed Potatoes so as to produce more bushels to every acre. Potatoes are one of the most profitable crops you can 
grow. 
What You Get When You Order My Seed Potatoes 
You get genuine Seed Potatoes, grown expresslv for planting purposes, grown from stock seed of carefully 
selected mother plants, bred to perfection for yield, purity and size. They are grown in the state of Maine, where 
the soil and climatic conditions are so naturally favorable that it is acknowledged by all authorities on Potato- 
growing to surpass any other state in the United States in the production of highest quality and highest yielding 
Seed Potatoes. 
You Get Many Extra Bushels to Every Acre 
Hundreds of my customers have proved tliis fact for themselves by planting an ecjual number of acres or rows 
with my Maine-grown Seed Potatoes and tlicir own carefully selected stock or that secured from a neighbor, and 
in every case where the same variety was planted at the same time, in the same field, sprayed and cared for in the 
same manner, they report that my Maine .Seed Potatoes have yielded double the quantity that the home-grown 
produced. Where their own produced 125 bushels to the acre, our Maine-grown Seed I'otatoes produced 250 
bushels; where their own produced 25 baskets to the row. our Maine-grown Seed produced 50 baskets in thene.xt row. 
By reason of its northern latitude and the virgin soil in which the Potatoes are grown, they inherit those staple 
and vigorous qualities which make them grow better and > ield better. By all means, be wi.se cnoiMih to spend a 
few dollars more per acre and plant my Maine-grown Seeil Potatoes and thus double your yield, which will mean 
many, many more dollars made in the crop than you would save by planting your own. 
/ Guarantee Mu Seed Potatoes from disease of any kind, true to name, and of the 
finest quality, and if, alter you reirive and examine the Potatoes, they 
are not absolutely satisfactory to you, send them back immedialely and 1 will refund the full amount vou paid 
for them. I cannot, however, be res|)onsible for the crop, for other influences than good seed, such as preparation 
of the soil, fertilizer, heat, cold, moisture, all weather conditions, insects above and under ground, have much to 
do with the final results of the crop. 
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