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fertilized. Have the dwarf varieties in rows 
two and one-half feet apart; those kinds grow¬ 
ing two or three feet high, in rows three feet 
apart, and the tallest in rows four feet apart. 
The smooth varieties may be sown as soon as 
ground can be worked; the wrinkled sorts when 
soil is well warmed. One quart to 100 feet of 
drill; one and one-half bushels to an acre. 
Suttons Excelsior 
SMOOTH ROUND SEEDED VARIETIES 
Alaska—A very early variety, slender light 
green vines from 2 to 214 feet high. Pods 
contain 6 to 8 small bluish green peas. 
1 lb. 30c 2 lbs. 50c 5 lbs. $1.00 
15 to 100 lbs. @ 16c lb. 
East Hartford Extra Early—An extra early 
variety growing 214 ft. tall. The vines are 
very productive, carrying an abundance of 
well-filled pods containing small luscious peas. 
1 lb. 30c 2 lbs. 50c 5 lbs. $1.00 
15 to 100 lbs. @ 16c lb. 
WRINKLED SEEDED VARIETIES 
Dwarf Alderman—(Improved Dwarf Tele¬ 
phone.) A late larger podded productive sort. 
Very popular home and market garden variety. 
1 lb. 30c 2 lbs. 55c 5 lbs. $1.20 
15 to 100 lbs. @ 18c lb. 
Gradus—(Worlds Record Strain.) Popular 
variety, growing about 2 1 / 4 ft. tall and bearing 
an enormous crop of nearly straight pods SV 2 
to 4 inches in length containing 6 to 8 large 
peas of a very good flavor, can be planted 
nearly as early as the smooth varieties. 
1 lb 30c 2 lbs. 50c 5 lbs. $1.00 
15 to 100 lbs. @ 16c lb. 
Hundredfold—One of the best known early 
dwarf large podded sorts. Very prolific and 
attractive. Popular with home and market 
gardeners because it bears a heavy crop of ex¬ 
cellent quality. 
1 lb. 30c 2 lbs. 55c 5 lbs. $1.10 
15 to 100 lbs. @ 17c lb. 
Suttons Excelsior.—An Improvement of 
Nott’s Excelsior, with large pods and greater 
productiveness. Height 16 inches. 
1 lb. 30c 2 lbs. 55c 5 lbs. $1.10 
15 to 100 lbs. @ 17c lb. 
Telephone Tall—A giant podded, mid-season 
variety. Vines 414 to 5 ft., color dark green. 
Immensely productive and of the finest quality. 
1 lb. 30c 2 lbs. 50c 5 lbs. $1.10 
15 to 100 lbs. @ 15c lb. 
Thomas Laxton—A popular medium early 
variety. Vines 214 to 3 feet, medium dark 
green with dark green pods 314 in. long con¬ 
taining 7 to 8 large, tender peas of very good 
quality. 
1 lb. 30c 2 lbs. 50c 5 lbs. $1.10 
15 to 100 lbs. @ 17c lb. 
Potatoes 
IT PAYS TO PLANT NORTHERN GROWN 
CERTIFIED SEED POTATOES 
Keep your own costs down by raising more 
bushels per acre, and this can be done by 
planting Northern Grown Certified Seed. 
Seed from the North comes to you with a 
vigor which your home grown seed does not 
possess. This fact is recognized by successful 
potato growers. 
We sell certified seed and we select our seed 
from farms that have produced full crops, that 
show a low disease count, and finally are 
stored, handled and shipped by men whose 
business is seed and have pride in their 
product. 
During the season just past—1935—we have 
had an opportunity to observe the results ob¬ 
tained from planting home grown seed, and to 
compare the yields with fields planted with 
northern grown certified seed. The low price 
at which potatoes were selling in 1935 induced 
some farmers to plant their own seed, and in 
every case that came to our attention, they 
harvested a much reduced yield. In one ex¬ 
treme case, the crop hardly paid for digging. 
The fact that northern certified seed yields 
more per acre is admitted by all of our com¬ 
mercial growers. 
Spraying 1 potatoes on the farm of Frank Clark, Wind- 
sorville. Conn. Mr. Clark grows 150 acres of potatoes 
and uses O&W fertilizer. The above photograph show¬ 
ing the spraying of his fields was taken July 23, 1935. 
