
IRISH COBBLER 
Genuine Red River Valley Strain 
‘Certified 
Here’s a great potato. It’s an enormous 
yielder. Nicely shaped. Superior flavor. Skin 
and flesh clean and white. Cooks dry and 
mealy. Especially attractive for the market 
@nly about 4 to 6 days later in maturing than 
Ohios. 
RED RIVER VALLEY OHIOS 
Still the best known, most dependable popu- 
lar early potato. One of the earliest of the 
market potatoes. Good keeper. Smooth. Ex- 
tremely early maturity. Highly productive. It 
has shallow eyes, pink skin, no waste in peel- 
ing, makes it popular with good, thrifty house- 
wives. White, firm mellow flesh. A sturdy 
upright habit ‘of growth. Easy to dig and one 
of the best for home use. Get the genuine 
certified Blue Tag Seed potatoes from Earl May. 
WARBA 
The Best Extra-Early 
This fine, new, extra-early potato is not in- 
tended to take the place of the Ohio or Cob- 
bler. It’s extra-early. It’s a heavy yielder. It will 
be ready for use about one and one-half weeks 
ahead of Ohio. It has creamy white skin, fine 
flavor, uniformly round and blocky in form 
with shallow pink eyes. I would say, ‘Use 
these for your extra-early potatoes, but don’t 
rely upon them for your winter keepers. Rely 
on Ohio, Cobbler, and Triumph for that.” 
There are many prominent potato specialists 
'who will swear by Warba. 
RED TRIUMPH 
One of the outstanding varieties of potatoes 
that can be grown over a wide territory here 
in the Central West. The nice thing about this 
variety is its extreme earliness Often makes 
potatoes large enough .to dig in 8 to 9 weeks 
Red Triumph is very hardy and is a heavy 
yielder too. Will often yield as much as the 
later types of potatoes. This is really some- 
thing for a variety that is normally early. 
They're round, reddish-pink in color and have 
shallow eyes. They’re fine-grained and cook 
up very mealy. A lot of the merchants in the 
towns throughout the Central West really pre- 
fer these because of their fine appearance. 
PLANT 
Earl May’s 
CERTIFIED 
BLUE TAG SEED 
POTATOES 
Potatoes and bread are the staff of life. 
Potatoes fried with eggs, potatoes hash-brown 
with steak, potatoes baked, potatoes boiled, 
potatoes mashed, potatoes and cabbage, potatoes 

_ and pork. My, doesn’t that sound good. I don’t 
think there’s a family in America today that 
doesn’t eat potatoes. Friends, there’s just two © 
things to remember when you grow potatoes. 
Plant Certified Red River Valley grown seed 
potatoes. Seed certification requirements are 
very strict. There must be at least two field 
inspections and one bin inspection by an 
authorized State or Federal inspector. These — 
inspections are for the purpose of detecting 
and eliminating variety mixtures and diseases. 
Get your seed potatoes from Harl May. Then 
if you cut them right and plant them propenyy, 
you will dig plenty of potatoes. ; 
YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO PLANT BACK 
YOUR OWN POTATOES 
They go down in yield and you get too many 
runts, Piant blocky seed pieces as these are 
preferred to the wedge shaped pieces. Hach 
seed piece should contain one or more healthv 
eyes. Plant 3% to 4 in. in depth. Light sandy 
loam soils warm up quicker, and you can plant 
deeper than in heavy-type soil. The rows 
should be about 32 to 40 in. apart and pieces 
from 15 to 18 in. apart in the row. Folks— 
everybody who has a lot or a back yard not 
in use, and every farm should have a big po- 
tato patch. You'll need those potatoes the 
coming year. Plant only Certified Blue Tag 
Seed purchased from Earl May, and get a 
bumper crop. : 
LOOK! 
The University of Missouri reports that on 
a 6 yr. trial on certified Cobblers against local 
common stock, certified Cobblers produced 23.8 
busheis more to the acre. Also there were far 
less culls in the potatoes grown from ‘certified 
seed. Professor Fitch of Ames says, “Potatoes 
planted back the second year, and grown the 
third time in Iowa will go down 50% in yield.” 
I think everybody agrees that certified seed 
potatoes are more productive. Plant them and 
have a sure crop and a big crop. Plant nothing 
but Blue-Tagged, Certified Seed stock from 
the Red River Valley. And get them from 
Earl May, either by mail or at Earl May’s 
Nursery and Seed Stores. 
EARL MAY’S CERTIFIED BLUE TAG SEED POTATOES AT THESE LOW PRICES 
Per 25 Ibs. 60c 
Per 50 Ibs. $1.15 
Per 100 Ibs. $2.25 
All F.0.B. Shenandoah or Your Nearest Earl May Store 
