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Title: Annual catalogue of Harry N. Hammond
Identifier: CAT31282678 (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Harry N. Hammond (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Michigan Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs
Publisher: Decatur, Mich. : Harry N. Hammond
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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HARRY N. HAMMOND, DECATUR, MICH. 3
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A PLATE OF EARLY MICHIGAN, The Early Michigan on my grounds the past season, made a most wonderful growth, surpassing in this respect any early variety grown. The Early Michigan is none of your weakly, dwarfish seedlings. We have in it vigor, strength and health, such as I have not seen elsewhere in many years. It is certainly the coming potato. I am so sure of this that I feel like throwing all my other seedlings away, and begin with the Early Michigan, raising seedlings from it just as soon as I can get seed balls of the variety. Last year was the first season Early Michigan potatoes were offered, and in peck lots only. Not more than one peck was sold to any one person. Owing to the enormous demand, hundreds of orders had to be declined and money refunded. The Early Michigan potato, tested beside ninety other varieties at the Michigan Agricul- tural College the past season, made a wonderful showing, yielding 299^ bushels per acre, the most productive early variety tested, and also outyielded Carman No. 3 and No. 1, Sir William, Great Divide, Rural New Yorker No. 2 and many other well known sorts, by fifty bushels per acre. That the Early Michigan will have as great a run as the Early Rose, is conceded by all who have tested this wonderful potato. For lack of space, I publish only a few of many hundreds of testimonials. Although I do not introduce one-fourth as many varieties as do some seedsmen, yet when I send out a new variety, it goes out to find a welcome and a home with every grower. My greatest claim for the Early Michigan is for its superb quality. I do not think there is another potato in America that can approach it in delicate flavor. If you would be sure of simon pure stock, I would advise you to order direct from headquarters; and by headquarters, I mean Harry N. Hammond. Prices for 1897: By mail, postpaid; one pound, 35 cents; three pounds, 75 cents. By express or freight, not prepaid; one pound, 25 cents; half peck, $1.00; peck, $1.50; half bushel, $2.50; one bushel, S4.00; barrel, $9.00; three barrels, $25.00.

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