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Green Mountain Improved 
Chippewa* 
A Companion Potato with Green Mountain. 
The Chippewa is a recent introduction of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. It is a 
high yielding Potato, highly resistant to mild mosoic. 
It has a velvety white skin with very shallow eyes; 
regular in outline, oblong to elliptical in shape. It 
matures earlier than the Green Mountain and other 
late maturing varieties. It consistently produces an 
attractive tuber with a very high percentage of No. 1 
Potatoes. A distinct advantage possessed by the 
Chippewa is its maturity before the usual time of 
digging the late crop. While it is not classed as an 
early variety, it matures somewhat earlier than 
Green Mountain and other late maturing varieties. 
100 Ibs., $2.20; 60 Ibs., $1.50; 30 Ibs., 85c; 15 Ibs., 50c. 
Herbs 
Lavender 
Marjoram, Sweet 
Sage 
Savory, Summer 
Sweet Basil 
. Best Recleaned ; 
Bird Seeds For Feeding Only 
Lb. 100 Ibs. 
$0.2 1e1S 60 
Rape 20 .00 
$0.13 $ 9.00 Rane 
15 10.50 striped 12 -9.50 
28.00 Flax -16 =—:11.00 
Seeds Used for Flavoring and 
Pickling 
$o50 Dill’ 
-10 Fennel 
-20 Mustard 
Caraway 
Celery 
Coriander 


OS ee eee etl Jone 
Culture. Cut the seed into pieces, having 
2 or 3 eyes. Plant in furrows 38 feet apart 
and 12 to 15 inches apart in the row. One 
peck of potatoes should be sufficient to plant 
75 to 100 hills; 10 to 14 bushels are re- 
quired to plant an acre. Potatoes do best 
on new soil and will respond generously to 
fertilizer applications. Cultivate by bring- 
ing the soil well up around the plant. Spray 
or dust the plants for insects and blight. 




Green Mountain 
Improved* 
The most popular Potato 
in the world; ideal for Maine 
crops, and excellent for bak- 
ing. A dependable winter 
keeper. 
A reliable medium late Po- 
tato that is so popular in 
some sections it has super- 
seded all other main crop 
varieties. It seems to thrive 
in all soils and in all locali- 
ties, making heavy, healthy 
vines and yielding big crops 
of large, smooth white thin 
tubers of handsome flattish 
oval form. They cook white, 
dry and mealy. 
This Improved Green Mountain is 
approved and recommended by Ross 
Brothers. 
Maine Certified Seed: 100 lbs., $2.10; 
60 lbs., $1.45; 30 Ibs., 80c; 15 lbs., 45c. 
Irish Cobblers 
An early, white-skinned variety, very short, thick, inclining 
to round. This is yearly increasing in popularity for the early 
market. Ready for market about ten days earlier than the 
Early Rose; tubers are uniformly larger and in average pro- 
duction of Jarge crops it is not equaled by any of the extra 
early varieties, nor greatly surpassed in yield by any of the 
main crop varieties. The vine is very stocky and vigorous, not 
as liable to be affected with blight or to suffer by drought as 
most others. A dependable early variety. Maine Certified Seed, 
100 Ibs., $2.10; 60 Ibs., $1.45; 30 Ibs., 80c; 15 Ibs., 45c. 
Katahdin 
The Long Keeping Potato. 
Originated by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and 
promising to become the outstanding late Potato for market or 
storage. It was originated in Maine, by double crossing un- 
named seedlings of Rural New Yorker No. 2 and Aroostook 
Wonder parentage. It was bred for disease resistance, quality 
and yield. During the eight years it was under observation, it 
has been entirely free from mild mosiac. In yields it has con- 
stantly surpassed Rural New Yorker or Green Mountain. The 
tubers are smooth, short, elliptical to roundish, and have few, 
very small eyes. The crisp white flesh has a distinct desirable 
cooking quality which appeals to the housewife. Maine Cer- 
tified Seed, 100 Ibs., $2.10; 60 Ibs., $1.45; 30 Ibs.,80c; 15 lbs., 45c. 
Potato Prices 
Our Potato prices are based on the market value at the time 
our catalog goes to press, and subject to change without notice. 
This applies to both advance and decline and based at prevail- 
ing market prices at time of purchase. 

FORMALDEHYDE 
Prevents Potato Disease and Insures a Clean Healthy Crop. 
Directions for treatment of potatoes for common scab, 
black scurf or rhizoctonia, and black leg, cold method: 
Soak the uncut tubers 1% hours in solution of one pound 
formaldehyde in 30 gallons of water. If tubers are first 
dipped in or sprinkled with water, then covered with bur- 
lap sacks to keep them moist for a day or two before 
treatment, soaking period may be decreased to one-half 
hour and the effectiveness increased. See page 68. 

ROSS BROS. CO., Worcester, Mass. 
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