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bushels to the acre on ordinary soil, when with the same care, on 1 lie same 
soil right beside them. Carman, Rural New Yorker and others produced but 
half the yield. The tuber used to make the above illustration weighed about 
one pound and was a typical specimen of the Hastings variety. It was planted 
in the spring of 1909 and produced S3 pounds of potatoes. The tuber was cut 
to single eyes and planted in 14 hills. I never before heard of such a yield 
from one potato i* one season. We are introducers and headquarters for the 
Hastings potato. Retail price, 1 tuber 25c; peck $1.00; bushel $3.00; 10 
bushels $25.00. 
138 Pounds of Potatoes from 1 Pound of Seed (1 
Stafford County, N. H., 
Dec. 3. 1910. 
Dear Sir: — In looking over your cata¬ 
logue I saw what your cou in raised 
from the Hastings potato weighing over 
one pound. 
Now, I will tell you what I raised 
from the potato you sent me last spring. 
It weighed just one pound. You may 
think it a big story, but it is a fact, my 
father and my wife can vouch for it. I 
made 21 hills, cut to one eye and some 
of the eyes I split. I planted them deep 
and made no hill around them. The 
tops covered the ground and spread out 
from 3 Vs to 4 feet wide. No bugs on 
them of any amount. They were green 
until the frost killed them, which was 
quite late. Those that saw them said 
they never saw such tops and such pota¬ 
toes. some of them weighed nearly two 
pounds. T dug 133 pounds of potatoes 
from the one pound. I thought I must 
write vou. as you thought your cousin 
raised a big lot from the one potato. 
Respectfully yours. 
FRANK E. SCRANTON. 
Tuber). 
Westchester County, N. Y.. 
L. J. Parmer. Dec. 19, 1910. 
Dear Sir: — Send me your catalogue 
for the year. Please give me price on 
order below: 
Last year I bought 1 barrel of Michi- 
gans and raised 19 barrels of potatoes 
and received $2.60 for every barrel »f 
the 19. And tlie same with the Hast¬ 
ings. Very truly yours. 
ALFRE D A. THORP. 
Clackamas, Oregon. Nov. 13, 1911. 
L. .T. Farmer. 
Dear Friend:—I have just dug my 
Hastings potatoes from one potato I 
received from you. t had 17 hills, and 
from them got 140 potatoes, weighing 
98 pounds. Am well satisfied and ex¬ 
pect to have quite a patch next year. 
Yours truly. 
JO SEPH E. DEARDORFF. 
Early Michigan Potato. — 1 tuber. 15c; 
pk.. $1.00; bu., $3.00. 
Trisli Cobbler Potato. — 1 tuber. 15c: 
pk.. $1.00; bu., $3.00. 
The supply of seed potatoes is the 
shortest in many years. We have a lib¬ 
eral supply of Hastings, but are very 
short on the other varieties. 
The Oswego Apple 
This apple was discovered by Daniel D. Tryon of the Town of Sandy Creek. 
Oswego County, New York, several years ago. The young tree was found grow¬ 
ing up through the branches of an old Northern Spy tree and was bearing 
fruit Like other trees in the orchard, the old Spy tree had borne such heavy 
loads of fruit that most of its branches were split away from the main trunk of 
the tree and lay prostrate on the ground, yet were still bearing apples; and it was 
a pretty sight to see the young seedling tree bearing bright red apples and the 
Spv branches below bearing fruit of the characteristic Spy coloring. The young 
tree is about four feet from the trunk of the parent tree and at present about 7 
inches in diameter. It is impossible to tell whether the new variety is a seedling 
from apples from the Northern Spy tree or a sprout that came up from the root 
of the old tree. The indications point to the latter theory, as there is another 
sprout on the other side of the old tree of about the same size as the young 
Oswego tree, but this has never borne fruit. The color of the bark, growth and 
general appearance of the young Oswego tree are practically identical with the 
Northern Spy, and it certainly has Northern Spy blood in its make-up. The 
tree began to bear fruit 7 years ago and has borne a crop of apples for 7 suc- 
ceeding seasons, never missing a crop. In 1909 the tree bore about three bushels 
of fruit and manv were able to see the apples and judge of their value. We 
exhibited the fruit at the annual meeting of the New York State Fruit Growers’ 
Association at Medina, N. Y., jind also at the annual meeting of the Western 
New York Horticultural Society at Rochester. N. Y. The leading fruit growers, 
nurserymen and horticulturists of the United States have seen and tasted the 
apples and are unqualifiedly enthusiastic about it. Such men as G. B. Brackett. 
Profs Beach, Hedrick, Craig, Stewart, Taylor. Slingerland. Whetzel and others; 
such leading authorities as W. C. Barry, .T. H. Hale. H. W. Collingwood, Chas. 
W Garfield T. B. Wilson, Clark Allis, Geo. T. Powell. Frank B. White, John 
Hall. J. S. Woodward, S. D. Willard, Albert Wood. D. D. Stone and others: such 
leading nurserymen as Chas. A. Green, H. S. Wiley, Nelson Bogue, C. M. Hooker, 
F. E. Rupert and others have seen, tasted and admired it, and to any or all of 
whom we refer anybody who is interested, for their private opinion. 
The fruit averages the same size as the Northern Spy and has about the same 
general characteristics except color, which is a beautiful clear red with no stripes 
or splashes. Near the calyx end are small dots like those in the Spitzenburgh 
apple and this characteristic, combined with the excellent quality, has led the 
originator to think that the new variety is a cross of the Esopus Spitzenburgh and 
Northern Spv. The flesh is very fine grained, yellowish white, of a rich appear¬ 
ance and has a flavor suggesting a cross of the Spy and Spitzenburgh. It has a 
