ADVERTISEMENTS 



RECORD CROPS GROWN WITH THE 



MAPES MANURES 



"American Agriculturist" Prize Potato- Growing Contest. Yields from one meas- 

 ured acre. All records surpassed by the Mape» Potato Manure. "JVew secrets in 

 Nature's Laboratory." The two largest crops of Potatoes ever grown with ferti- 

 lizers or farm manure grown with the Mapes Potato Manure alone. 



The following were the Largest Crops of potatoes grown in each state— and all these 

 crops were grown exclusively with the Mapes Potato Manure: 

 Maine, Aroostook County . ..... 745 bushels 



The largest crop ever grown in Maine. Second largest ever grown 

 with fertilizers. 

 Colorado •..,... 84" bushels 



" The largest crop ever grown with fertilizers or manure." 

 Massachusetts . ....... 3.1.5 bushels 



Connecticut ,.,._., . 390 bushels 



The largest crops grown in Massachusetts and Connecticut in sea- 

 son 1889 (2.so and 340 bushels) were also grown with the Mapes 

 Potato Manure. 

 Minnesota ......... 325 bushels 



Idaho .......... 479 bushels 



The largest crops in each state grown with other fertilizers and farm 

 manures, season lsuo, were as follows :— 595, 522, 500, 351, 325, 319 and 307 bushels 

 per acre. 



SUMMING UP THE POTATO CONTESTS 



In seventeen states in which the largest crop was grown with fertilizers, 1889 and 

 1890, ten crops were grown exclusively with the Mapes Potato Manure; 847, 745, 009, 532, 

 479, 400, 42s, 393 and 324 bushels per acre- 

 Average yield per acre, 522 bushels. 



In the seven states in which the largest crop was grown with fertilizers other than 

 the Mapes, the yields were as follows: 500, 454, 444, 401, 325, 319 and 307 bushels per acre. 

 Average yield per acre, 394 bushels. 



The Great Corn Contest of the American Agriculturist 



Crops 21 J, nq and QJ> Bushels Each ; Grown on One Measured A ere 



Exclusively with the Jl/a/es Com Manure. 



Of this great crop, 213 bushels shelled corn, grown in Yates County, N- Y.. with the 



Mapes Corn Manure (800 pounds per acre) exclusively, the American Agriculturist says: 



"If we allow only $15 as the value of the tops for fodder, and make no account of 



bottom stalks, the cost comes within twenty cents a bushel (shelled corn)." 



The largest crop grown with fertilizers other than the Mapes (45 crops in all) was 84 

 bushels (chemically dried, 00 bushels). 



Some Large Crops Grown with the Mapes Corn Manure and Reported in 

 the Agricultural Press. 



Season of 1888— 1040 bushels of corn— ears— on less than 41-2 acres, equal to 233 1-2 

 bushels, or 110 .".-4 bushels shelled corn per acre, grown on farm of Rural New Yorker, 

 with the Mapes Corn Manure. 



Ninety bushels— shelled— with 500 pounds per acre. 150 bushels— shelled— with 600 

 pounds per acre. Value of the grain alone over five times as much as the cost of the 

 fertilizer.— American Agriculturist. 



Eight hundred and titty -six bmhels— ears— on four acres 159.37 bushels ononeacre. 

 125.37 bushels on one acre. Nothing used but the Mapes.— Rural New Yorker. 



On two acres 600 pounds of Mapes alone, broadcast, 198 bushels shelled corn. On 

 three acres, same fertilizers, same quantity. Four hundred and eighty -nine bushels — 

 ears— grown by Dr. Henry Stewart.— New' England Homestead. 



One hundred and eighty bushels of ears" per acre; shelled, 98.45 bushels. 2058 

 bushels— ears— on sixteen acres. Only Mapes, 800 pounds per acre, used.— Connecticut 

 Farmer. 



The Mapes Formula & Peruvian Guano Co., 

 143 Liberty St., New York* 



