DIBBLE'S The Best Main-Crop 
RUSSET... -POTATO- 
D IBBLE’S Russet Potatoes are round to oblong, of good size, with pure white fTesh, russet skin and 
few, shallow eyes. The quality is superb, and either baked or boiled is not excelled by any other 
variety. Dibble’s Russet is enormously productive and has all the qualities that make for a profitable 
market Potato. The tubers are as large, or larger, than Rurals, Carman or Raleigh, and where those sorts 
set only four or five tubers to a hill, the Russet produces eight, ten, or even twelve big tubers. The vines 
are strong and disease-resistant. 
Dibble’s Russet Potato is the original round to oblong type of the Russet family. From its first introduc¬ 
tion by us it has been bred absolutely true to type, and our stock seed is saved from fields entirely free from 
early or late blight, and where the vines were green and healthy until killed by frost. Our customers say 
that Dibble’s Russet carries these inbred qualities to every locality where they are planted, and ninety-nine 
out of every hundred growers say Dibble’s Russet is the best Potato grown. 
Dibble’s Russet is the Potato for you to grow on your farm. You will find it more profitable and far 
superior to any other variety for the main Potato crop. Whether you have “Potato soil” or not, you will get 
a good yield if the soil is in good condition. Sand, gravel, loam, or clay will produce a satisfactory crop. 
Many customers say the vines are blight-proof, and spraying is not needed; neither do bugs like the foliage, 
for we have seen thousands of acres of Dibble’s Russet where neither Paris green nor arsenate of lead w r as 
used, and the vines were perfect. 
If you say you “can’t grow Potatoes,” get a sack of Dibble’s Russet this year. Give them a careful trial. 
We feel sure you will be satisfied, and next season you will be an enthusiastic booster for Dibble’s Russet. 
In 1912, when we introduced this variety, we had only 1000 barrels to sell. The third year we sold over 
11,000 barrels. Never before did a new variety make a name for itself so quickly. 
Dibble’s Russet is the best main-crop Potato for western New York, and is grown extensively in Michigan, 
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, and other Potato-producing states. It outyields other sorts two to one, and 
crops of 300 to 400 bushels an acre are not uncommon. Customers write us that the “Russet gives splendid 
yields when other kinds fail.” During the long drought years of 1934 and 1936 the Potato crop in many 
sections was almost a complete failure, yet under those hard conditions Dibble’s Russet produced satis¬ 
factory crops—in fact, right here in western New York, where there was no rain for weeks, a yield of about 
400 bushels an acre was reported. 
The Russet Potatoes we have here came from you originally and it will interest you to know that last year, on a 20-acre 
field, we had an average of 585 bushels per acre, by weight. The digging was under the supervision of our County Agent, 
who had advised very thorough spraying during the summer. We have always had good results from the 
seed bought from you.— Charles F. Johnson, Supt. Luzerne Co. Industrial School for Boys, Kis-Lyn, Pa. 
We want the Dibble’s Russets as they are the best Potatoes that we can grow. We have bought seeds 
of you for years.— Edson Gregory, Mongaup House, Ferndale, N. Y. 
I want to get the Dibble’s Russets again as they are all you claim for them.—R. W. Underwood, R. D. 2. 
Cuyrhaga Falls, Ohio. 
Those Russet Potatoes I 
got from you this spring are 
doing fine—every hill came. 
A fine-looking field and I am 
very much pleased with them. 
—Fred Knapton, Gorham, 
Maine. 
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DIBBLE’S FARM SEED CATALOG • 1941 
