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If You Are Pleased With Our Plants, 
No fertilizer was used except the barn 
manure and lime. They were kept clean 
with the cultivator, which was started 
even before they showed through the 
ground. They were hand hoed but once 
and the large weeds pulled late in the 
season. From the 12 bushels planted 
we dug 280 bushels of as fine looking 
potatoes as I have ever seen. They were 
quite uniform and there were few small 
ones. The largest specimen found 
weighed 2 pounds and 2 ounces. One 
interesting thing about this crop is that 
they were not planted “In the Moon” 
and they were planted on “limed” soil. 
Fvery good authority will tell you that 
lime is bad for potatoes, it makes them 
scabby. These Bull Moose potatoes were 
not scabby, they were smooth and 
beautiful to look upon. Other varieties 
planted beside them in the same field 
under the same conditions were scabby. 
The potato is roundish, the true market 
type, it is white in color and of fine 
flavor. It did not rain to any extent 
from the day they were planted until 
after the heavy freeze of September 10th. 
This freeze cut them down while they 
were in full growth and must have 
reduced the yield fully 50% under what 
it would have been, had the tops come to 
full maturity. When we dug the potatoes 
we found that the roots had run deep 
into the .soil and had ramified in all 
directions, completely sucking up every 
bit of moisture available. So confident 
are we that we have the best potato in 
the world that we repeat the offer that 
we made in the Bargain Price List of 
last spring. The offer is as follows: If 
any person buys and pays for these po¬ 
tatoes this spring and is not satisfied 
with them after the crop is dug in the 
fall of 1914, we will pay him back his 
money (the money that he paid us) and 
take the crop off his hands at market 
price of potatoes in our locality. Noth¬ 
ing could be fairer than this. Price, 2.5c 
per tuber; extra large selected tubers, 
nOc each, postpaid: peck, 75c; peck, 
$1.25; ^ bushel, $2.00; 1 bushel, $3.00; 
10 bushels, $25.00. 
Rhubarb 
The Hastings Potato 
There is just Irish enough in me to 
appreciate a good potato and I have never 
seen anything superior in quality to the 
Hastings. This variety originated about 
fourteen miles from us several years ago 
and now is more largely grown in that 
locality than all others combined. It Is 
a very late potato and requires a full 
season to attain its greatest perfection 
in yield and flavor. For best results, 
it should be planted early, and growing 
through a long season as it does, it takes 
advantage of every bit of moisture and 
favorable weather that comes and is able 
to produce a big crop when varieties of 
shorter season will often fail. It is such 
a rank grower that it ought to be planted 
fully 3 feet apart each way and then 
will cover the ground with vines which 
are practically immune to bugs and 
blight. It produces potato balls every 
year. The tubers are white in color, 
roundish in shape, the popular market 
type, and are of very fine grain and of 
excellent flavor. Unlike most other late 
varieties of potatoes, it is good to eat, 
like early varieties, as soon as dug in 
the fall. The flesh is very solid and 
tubers of ordinary size are real heavy. 
It is rarely that you will find a hollow 
specimen. This variety has yielded 400 
bushels to the acre on ordinary soil, 
when with the same care, on the same 
soil, right beside them. Carman. Rural 
New Yorker and others produced but half 
that yield. 
We have sold the Hastings potato in 
every State of the Union and they have 
given universal satisfaction. A cousin 
of mine grew 83 pounds from one tuber. 
A man in New Hampshire produced 138 
pounds from one tuber weighing 1 pound. 
A man in Oregon got 140 potatoes, weigh¬ 
ing 98 pounds, from one potato weigh¬ 
ing 1 pound. We could fill this book 
with like testimonials. Price, 1 tuber, 
15c; peck, 75c; bushel, $2.00; 10 bushels, 
$15.00. 
or Pieplant 
This is one of the first vegetables to start in the spring and furnishes 
material for pies and sauces before anything else in the fruit line is available. 
Pieplant is not only palatable but is healthful, tending to clear the blood of 
impurities in the spring after a long, hard winter. The roots are very hardy 
and can be made to grow readily if given rich soil and clean culture. We would 
plant them in rows about 4 to 5 feet apart, with plants about 12 to 18 inches 
apart in the row. All that is necessary is to keep the land clean of weeds and 
well culivated. Each fall it is a good plan to put a forkful of rich manure about 
each plant to facilitate growth. If barrels or boxes are placed over the plants 
in early spring to exclude the light and keep away the frosts and cold wdnds, the 
stalks will make a large, tender growth much earlier than as though they w'ere 
left exposed. The growth will be all stalk with little leaf. After the plants 
have been growing for several years, they will do better if taken up and divided 
and reset. We have an immense stock of pieplant roots to offer. They will be 
all split, ready to plant. Note our reduced prices. 
LInneaus—Early, tender, delicious, fine.'^t flavor, best variety for table use, 2 for 
10c; 12 for 50c: 100, $3.00: 1000, $25.00. 
Victoria—Largest size. Grows to mammoth size. Very late. Coarse. 10c each; 
dozen, 75c; 100, $5.00. 
