. Barnard's seeds, bulbs, shrubs 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs. One Peck Will Plant 125 Hills Selected Seed Potatoes In Drills, 10 to 12 Bushels per Acre Any good, well-drained, fibrous loam will produce Potatoes under right climatic conditions. For early potatoes, which mature 8 to 10 weeks from planting, the soil must be par- ticularly rich. A rich clover sod, manured and broken the year before and planted to corn, beans, peas, oats, etc., is in best shape for giving a good yield of nice clean
. Barnard's seeds, bulbs, shrubs 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs. One Peck Will Plant 125 Hills Selected Seed Potatoes In Drills, 10 to 12 Bushels per Acre Any good, well-drained, fibrous loam will produce Potatoes under right climatic conditions. For early potatoes, which mature 8 to 10 weeks from planting, the soil must be par- ticularly rich. A rich clover sod, manured and broken the year before and planted to corn, beans, peas, oats, etc., is in best shape for giving a good yield of nice clean potatoes. Early Rose Some growers declare that Early Rose has never been excelled in quality or produc- tiveness by newer varieties. Tubers are of good size, in color light pink. Pk., 75c; bu., $ Red River Early Ohio Probably the most popular early potato in the coun- try. Tubers smooth, oblong in shape; resisting scab and dry weather well and bearing the even-sized, abundant tubers compactly in the hill. A popular favorite. Pk., 75c; bu., $ McKinley MC KINLLY POTATO THE CHAMPION LATE POTATO The McKinley is a white-skinned potato of the Green Mountain type. The tubers (as shown in the illustration of one from a photograph) are square to oval in shape and somewhat flat in appearance. As will be seen its records prove this potato to be an enormous yielder, while as a keeping variety it is equal to the best. Tubers prop- erly kept in root cellars through winter will bake just as mealy and fine as in December. The flesh cooks up dry and mealy with a flavor all its own. The original McKinley potato came from the East. A Minnesota grower greatly improved the strain by hill-to-hill selection. His practice was to take nothing for seed from a hill which did not produce at least ten standard-sized, typical-shaped potatoes, and from those the very best were selected for seed. It is from such most carefully chosen tubers that our stocks were grown. In field culture 76 tubers yie
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