WALTER S. SCHELL'S QUALITY SEEDS FOR MARKET-GARDENERS 
Pure Maine-Grown 
Seed Potatoes 
GROWN ESPECIALLY FOR IVIE IN THE 
STATE OF MAINE 
Inspected by the government and guaranteed perfect stock 
HOW TO GROW POTATOES.— You can grow Potatoes any- 
where in good, rich, loose, well-drained soil if weather conditions 
are right. It requires 10 to 12 bushels to plant an acre, which should 
produce from 200 to 300 bushels. A Potato can be 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 thor- 
oughly, 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 fur- 
rows. Cultivate often and spray every ten days or two weeks with 
Pyrojc to kill the bugs and prevent blight. To plant a row 100 feet 
long, eighty pieces are required. 
My Seed Potatoes are grown in Maine by special 
contract with one who has made Seed Potato-growing a 
business for many 
years, and who has 
the enviable reputa- 
tion of producing the 
handsomest, clean- 
est, truest type of 
northern-grown Seed 
Potatoes that ever 
came to the middle and 
southern markets for 
planting. This high 
quality gave my cus- 
tomers most satisfac- 
tory results in past 
years. A number of my 
customers found by 
actual test that the 
Maine .Seed Potatoes, 
planted under the same 
conditions as their own 
home-grown Potatoes, 
seemed to withstand 
the blight far better 
because of their vigor- 
ous qualities, and yield- 
ed far more to the acre, 
and better Potatoes. 
Every large Potato- 
grower knows that 
Maine produces the 
best Seed Potatoes in 
the world. 
Digging a crop producrd from 
Maine-Orown Seed Potatoes, with 
an Iron Age Difigcr. We sell the 
Planters, Sprayers and Diggers. Ask 
us about them. 
Irish Cobbler. Three 
times as many baskets 
to the row. Gicorge 
Davis, market-gardener, 
says: " I am convinced by 
actual test that it pays to 
pay the price and plant 
your Maine -Grown Seed 
Potatoes. Planted side by 
side, in the same field on 
the same day, cultivated 
and sprayed in the same 
way. yours produced nine 
baskets to the row and 
mine only three.** 
By reason of its 
iKirthern latitude and 
tlie virgin soil in which 
tlie Potatoes are grown, 
they inherit tho.se sta- 
lilc and vigorous quali- 
ties which make them 
at once the best and 
iriost valuable seed 
known. 
Potatoes and other 
foods are more neces- 
sary this year than ever 
before. Plant my 
Maine- Grown Seed 
Potatoes. They will 
cost you a trifle more, 
but tliey will produce 
from two to three times 
as many Potatoes in 
every row as will home- 
Genuine Early Rose from my Maine-Grown Seed Potatoes 
Mr. Lawrencr Strock. Merhanicsburg. Pa., says: "From 
iK acres of your Rural New Yorker I grew over 500 bushels of 
the finest Potatoes 1 ever grew. I never had such a splendid 
crop. " 
POTATO SEED 
Potato seeds are curious and wonderful. The seed pro- 
duces an amazing diversity of potatoes. It may not be 
generally known that every seed will bring- a different 
variety — each one more or less distinct from each other. 
Such is the case. The product of a packet of seeds will be 
a vast number of colors, shapes and sizes. There will be 
white, yellow, pink, red. blue, purple and black potatoes. 
There will be shades innumerable. Extraordinary freaks 
sometimes develop — such as a potato having vines that 
run on the ground like a cucumber vine, the joints taking 
root and producing potatoes at every joint, etc. 
Potato .seeds grow as readily as tomato seeds. Plant 
them early in the spring and when they are 3 or 4 inches 
high, transplant 2 feet apart. 
The Seeds are exceedingly prolific. It is not an uncom- 
mon thing for one seed to produce 50 to 150 perfect potatoes 
the first season. Pkt. IS ota., 4 pkts. 50 cts. 
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