Title: Annual catalogue of celebrated seeds
Identifier: annualcatalogueo1896jaev (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: J. A. Everitt (Firm); Everitt, J. A; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Indiana Indianapolis; Vegetables; Flowers; Grasses; Commercial catalogs
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : J. A. Everitt
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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jgiSBsps!*; same farm were respectively 420 bnshels per acre; 380 bushels per acre and 600 bushels per acre. The originator says about this potato: " Potatoes have been my favorite crop since I was a boy and. I always took great pleasure in seeing what good crops and large yields I could get, but never did I see a nicer potato than this. Thave raised a great many kinds, sent forHhe earli- est in the catalogues, and have raised them from seed, and got some very good ones, but none that came up to my ideal of a perfect potato until I originated this. I have now discarded all others, and raise this for earlv and main crop, for market and home use. I am fully convinced that I have at "last produced the best early potato in cultivation. It combines more good qualities than any other variety in the world. Grown on a light gray soil, and without manure or fertilizer, they yielded at the rate of 380 bushels per acre, which can be increased by potato manure, and is excelled on rich soil. In a careful comparitive test with three other varieties, each of which have been claimed to be the earliest, the following results were obtained: All were planted May 2. Eventt's Six-Weeks Market matured in 72 days; yield, 420 bus. per acre. Stray Beauty matured in 87 days; vield, 189 bus. per acre. Chas. Downing matured in 92 days; yield, 350 bus. per acre; Early Sunrise matured in 10O days; yield, 378 bus. per acre. This test shows this new potato to be 15idays earlier than any of the aboveand far more produc- tive. TP QTI IV/I fl M I A I Q We ^k*1 M'e tad space to publish I I— O I IIYI \J I N I r\ L-O one-fourth the testimonials received for this grand potato, but we have not. We will print a few in small type as samples of many, and will send manv more to any person on request. EARLY SIX-WTEKS IS THE EARLIEST. The photo-engraving on page 58 was made direct from potatoes sent us by John L. Saum. of Paulding Co., 0., who writes as follows: I send you to-day by freight the product of 40 hills of Six-Weeks Potatoes. They were dug last night and this morning and grew in 43 days. They weregrownfromone- eye seed. I have just began farming on my own land, and am not fixed yet for pushing a crop of early potatoes. These were covered with a breaking plow and given very ordinary treatment. Think I can beat it next season. Several people who saw them ■were astonished. I expect to exhibit at our county fair. John L. Saum. I like the Six-Weeks Potatoes very much. I divided with my neighbors. One of them says they are the best he ever saw. They are excellent keepers. They are first- class in every respect. E. Hartman, Sutton Co., W. Va. The Earlv Six-Weeks Potatoes did well with me. I could sell a car load for seed here if I had them. John B. Cochran, Jeff. Co., 0. One pound Early Six-Weeks Market Potato yielded 147 pounds of fine, sound, smooth tubers. Ripened In 75 days, and produced marketable potatoes in Six- Weeks, as you claimed. This is the most valuable variety of potatoes ever introduced. R. Taylok Ashland, Co., Wis. You have got it this time—I mean the best ear- ly and the earliest potato in existence. We had the Early Six-Weeks Market Potato large euoughforthe table in six-weeks from planting. They out-yield- ed all our other varieties. August Broennkr (Gar- dener), Allegan Co., Mich. $10 per bushel would not buy my Early Six- Weeks Market Potatoes if I could not replace them for less. They are the ear- liest of all, and a heavy yielder Jacob E. Stilson, Ononlaga Co., N. Y.

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