
HOFFMAN’S 
SEED POTATOES 
There’s no substitute for good healthy seed potatoes. The seed 
has to be good, or the result won’t be a paying crop. Plenty of 
so-called “seed’’ potatoes should never be planted. Surest way 
is to buy only through a proven, reliable source. You can rely 
on Hoffman Seed. There couldn’t be more careful selection. 
“EARLY BLISS TRIUMPH” 
Our earliest variety. Fine pink-skin type “Bliss Triumph” 1s a 
real money-maker where early crops mean premium prices. A 
fine improvement over the original “Red Bliss,” earlier than 
“Cobblers” by a week to 10. days. This strain of “Bliss 
Triumph” delivers a heavy yield of elongated flat tubers, nice 
in appearance, unexcelled in quality. Grown with special care 
for you in Northern Pennsylvania. 
‘““RUSSET” NORTH-MICHIGAN (Certified) 
For many years the leading main-crop variety. This famous 
“Russet” strain gave one yield of 629 bushels per acre in Bucks 
County, Pa. A hardy grower, easy to harvest and store, resistant 
to disease. Our seed is unexcelled, produced by the famous 
Tuber-Unit method that removes everything undesirable. Truly 
top-quality seed of heaviest yielding ability. 
“TRISH COBBLER” (Certified) 
Favorably known and profitably planted by hosts of real potato 
farmers. A good old reliable. Delicious, mealy, with shallow 
eyes. Stores well. A fine, early, heavy-yielding standard crop 
potato. Our seed is extra-fine Maine-grown. You are bound 
to be pleased with this truly high quality “Irish Cobbler” seed. 
“GREEN MOUNTAIN” (Certified) 
A great potato—used by many large successful potato men. 
Heavy producer. Finé keeper. Always in demand on the mar- 
ket. Excellent eating qualities. A later-maturing type of Maine- 
grown seed. This is true-type seed of top quality. 
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“Potatoes bought from you 
certainly were fine. I had a 
very good yield. It pays to 
plant the best certified seed. 
I am using your seed again 
this year.”—A. C. Kefauver, 
Keedysville, Md. 
“Potatoes arrived in nice con- 
dition and on time. I have a 
nice trade built up here on 
those Bliss potatoes. The pub- 
lic takes as fast as I can dig 
them. They ripen in about 6 
or 7 weeks. My yield is 350 
bushels to the acre.”—Wiel E. 
Preston, Laceyville, Pa. 
One potato man says that 
tubers should be cut so as 
to produce blocky seed 
pieces rather than wedge- 
shaped pieces. These han- 
dle better in the planter 
and are less likely to decay 
or dry out. 
PREPARING A GOOD 
SEED BED 
In preparing a seed bed 
on sod or stubble land, the 
best results can be _ ob- 
tained by disking in ad- 
vance of plowing. This en- 
sures a firm, compact seed 
bed from surface to plow 
depth. Old sods plowed 
under without advance 
preparation tend to form 
air pockets which dry soil 
out unduly. 
