OLDS’ CERTIFIED SEED POTATOES 
(Plant 8 to 12 bushels to the acre.) Bushel = 60 lbs. 
EARLY VARIETIES 
WHY PLANT CERTIFIED SEED? 
First. Let us quote from a 1948 Wisconsin College of Agriculture 
bulletin: 
FARM AND HOME MEETINGS, 1943 
“Wisconsin farm people generally are getting nowhere near the num- 
ber of high quality potatoes they should from their farm potato patches. 
Much of the trouble is caused by bad ‘seed. 
‘““Those two facts are borne out by College of Agriculture tests. On 
15 farms where tests were conducted, certified seed outyielded the home- 
zrown variety 14 times. The three highest yields—210, 180 and 179 
bushels to the acre—came from certified seed. The three lowest—45, 
61 and 71—were produced from homegrown seed. 
““Homegrown varieties alongside of certified seed, 
grown seed invariably run out and full of disease.”’ 
Second. It is pedigreed seed. Note requirements it must pass to be 
sold as Certified. 
WISCONSIN CERTIFIED STOCK, The seed fields must be inspected 
at least twice while growing in the fields by an official State Inspector 
and again in the bin after being dug, and both times pass the necessary 
requirements. The fields must be sprayed for disease on the order of an 
official inspector. The stock must be practically 100% pure in type, 
must be free from late blight rot, blackleg, powdery scab, leaf roll, tuber 
moth, Selerotium Rolsfii Wilt, potato wart, ring rot, brown rot, and con- 
form reasonably to the correct vine and tuber characteristics of the variety. 
The seed used in planting the crop must ke proven certified seed 
that has a history starting from carefully selected plants, true to type 
and free from mixture. Complying with all the above requirements, the 
potatoes are eligible for certification and are placed in official branded 
bags and sealed with official tags. In less than full bags, orders are filled 
in our*bags and with our labels. Why gamble a crop on poor quality seed 
when certified seed is so reasonably priced and will pay big profits in 
increased yields? ~* 
DON’T PAY SEED PRICES for TABLE STOCK 
The L. L. OLDS SEED COMPANY has had a nation-wide reputation 
for years with its seed potatoes. We began with nothing but seed _ pota- 
toes 57 years ago and have made a specialty of them ever since. If you 
are not already using our Certified Seed, this is the year to change to 
z00d seed, Ordinary table potatoes are high and with price ceilings now 
in effect on seed stock, Certified Seed is a greater bargain than ever hefore. 
EARLY OHIO 
Most Popular Home Garden Potato 

found the home- 

standing features. 
Improved Early Ohios 
We have only 
Stock: Pk., 95c; bu. 

Red River Early Ohios. 
TREAT SEED POTATOES WITH SEMESAN BEL. 
Tests in 15 states have proved 
The well-known, dependable, all-around, early 
variety. 
Early Ohio has long been the most popular 
early potato in the country. Its earliness, 
smoothness and shallow eyes are its out- 
Everyone knows what it is, 
* and knows that it can be relied on for an early 
market variety in almost every locality. 
the best potatoes for frying. 
Our illustration shows just how Olds’ Famous 
rounded symmetrical shape and uniform size. 
run-out stock about them. 
certified stock 
Early Ohios. Prices, Minnesota Blue Tag Certified 
(60 lbs.), $3.65; 
(90 1bs.), $5.20; 500 lbs. at $5.40 per 100 Ibs. 



Barly Irish Cobblers. 
EARLY IRISH COBBLERS 
Most Popular Early White Variety 
Early Irish Cobblers seem to continue to increase in popularity. 
ple like'a white potato. It is famous now the country over. 
it was largely grown for the early ‘market by the 
Jersey and Virginia and other Atlantic coast states. From there its 
popularity has extended throughout the whole of the United States and 
if is a standard, well-known variety now nearly everywhere. 
It is a pure white potato, nearly round in shape with eyes rather 
more pronounced than in the Early Ohio. It usually outyields Early 
Ohio although not quite ag early. 
The potatoes are very attractive looking and of most excellent quality, 
rather ahead of all other earlies in that respect, always cooking up 
dry and mealy. This variety will please anyone who wants a few earlies 
for home use as well as the large grower and the market gardener. 
Prices, Wisconsin Certified Stock: Pk., 90c; bu., $3.50; 1144 bu. (90 
Ibs.), $4.95; 500 Ibs. at $5.10 per 100 Ibs. 
Peo- 
At first 
truckers of New 
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look. Note the 

Red Warba. 
-NEW EARLY RED WARBA 
Earliest of All Potatoes 
of Red River 
114% bu. 
The Red Warba was developed by. Dr. Krantz 
of the University of Minnesota and was intro- 
duced in 1937, 
Red Warba is the earliest variety grown in 
America. It matures ten days earlier than 
Titans = j 
Triumph and Ohio and two weeks earlier than 

that most potato growers can usual- 
ly expect better returns from seed 
potatoes if they treat them with 
Semesan Bel, Costs only about 21¢ 
acre—generally reduces seed- 
piece decay, seed-borne scab and 
Rhizoctonia No mussy soaking— 
just dip, drain, dry and plant! One 
pound treats 60 to 80 bushels of 
seed. Prices: 2) 0z,,- 80¢e;% 1- 1b.; 
$1.65, postpaid. — Not prepaid, 5 
Ibs., $7.15; 25 Ibs., $33.25; 100 
Ibs., $125.00. Sizes and _ prices 
subject to change. 
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Order your insecticides now to 
be shipped with your potatoes and 
Save extra transportation cost. 
See page 74. ; 

For better yields treat seed with Semesan Bel, 
Only 0.4 bushels of the average yield increase of 35.4 
bushels were required to pay for the Improved Semesan Bel, 
leaving a return of 9,880 per cent on money invested! ; 
Seely (qe 
Cobbler, It has a vigorous sprout which has a 
tendency to emerge quickly through the soil 
after planting. The plants are stocky and rug- 
ged and they produce a heavy set of tubers. 
The eyes, while deep, are not noticeable. 
Some of the potatoes have a cream colored 
marbling on the deep red tubers which seenis 
to be an advantage rather than an objection. 
Cooking tests over a period of four years at the 
Wisconsin College of Agriculture of tubers taken 
from nine separate potato producing areas proved 
that it had a definite tendency to cook white 
and mealy. Very little hollow heart was found 
in this variety. This variety is also definitely 
resistant to mild mosaic under field conditions, 
a disease that seems to be susceptible to most 
early varieties. It keeps and stores better. than 
any of the other early varieties. Ags an .early 
market variety, it has no equal. 
Prices, Minn, Certified Stock: Pk., 95c; bu., 
$3.65; 114 bu. (90 Ibs.), $5.20; 500 Ibs. at 
$5.40 per 100 Ibs. 
