THEY GROW BETTER • THEY YIELD BETTER 
Acres and acres of Early Bote. Pure stock grown from my seed by Mr. Max Selcher 
Pure Maine-Grown Seed Potatoes 
GROWN ESPECIALLY FOR ME IN THE STATE OF MAINE 
Inspected by the government and guaranteed perfect stock 
HOW TO GROW POTATOES. — You can grow Potatoes anywhere in good, rich, loose, well-drained soil if weather conditions 
are right. It requires 8 to 10 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 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, 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 reputation of producing the handsomest, cleanest, truest 
type of northern-grown Seed Potatoes that ever came to the middle and southern markets for planting. This 
high quality gave my customers most satisfactory 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 bhght far 
Potatoes and other foods are more necessary ' ' .... 
this year than ever before to save this nation. 
Grow ten limes as many as you did last year if 
possible. You cannot produce too many, 
and prices will necessarily be high. Plant 
my Maine-grown Seed Potatoes. 
They may cost you a trifle more, but 
they will produce from two to three 
times as many Potatoes in every row as 
will home-grown Potatoes. 
Mr. George Davis, market- 
gardener and farmer, says: "I 
am convinced by actual 
test that it pays mc to 
plant your Maine Seed 
Potatoes instead of my 
own. Planted side by 
side, the same day. on 
the same soii, cultivated 
in the same way. yours 
produced nine baskets to 
the row, and mine only 
three — I will plant all 
your seed next season." 
better because of their vigorou.s quali- 
ties, and yielded far more to the acre, 
and better Potatoes. Every large 
Potato-grower knows that Maine 
produces the best Seed Potatoes in 
the world. 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 at once 
the best and most valu- 
able ,«ecd known. 
M R . Lawrence 
STROCK, Mechanics- 
burg. Pa., says: 
"From iji acres 
of your Rural 
New Yorker I 
have over soo 
bushels of the 
finest Potatoes 
I ever grew. I 
never had such 
a splendid 
crop. . 
Absolutely perfect Irish Cobblers. Grown by Prof. J. A. Smyser. from my seed and exhibited by him at the Pennsylvania State 
Agricultural show, roi7. and awarded First Prize, which proves again that They Crow Belter — They Yield Beller. 
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