WITH THE MAPES MANURES, 



WILMER ATKINSON (Farm Journal) ON THE POTATO CROPS 

 (1890) GROWN WITH THE MAPES POTATO MANURE. 

 We have to record some astonishing results in growing- large crops of 

 potatoes with Mapes Potato Manure the past season. Mr. R. A. ChishoJm, 

 Del Norte, Colorado, by the aid of Mapes Manure, now so favorably known 

 to Farm Journal readers, won the American Agriculturist second prize for 

 the season of 1890. One thousand pounds per acre was used, and 847J^ bush- 

 els per acre were grown. The two largest crops grown with barnyard ma- 

 nure were 434 and 375 bushels. The second largest crop ever grown with 

 fertilizers from one planting on one acre, was produced in Aroostook 

 County, last year, by Philo H. Reed being 745 bushels and 25 lbs , and this 

 also by the aid of Mapes Potato Manure. The great crop (1,031 bushels on 

 one acre), grown in 1889, by Alfred Rose, Penn Yan, N. Y., came from two 

 plantings, each growing side by side. The crop which secured the first 

 American Agriculturist prize for 1890, was won by W. J. Sturges, of Wyom- 

 ing, who produced 947 bushels and 48 lbs. per acre, with irrigation without 

 manure, which shows what virgin soil, rich in potash, will do. The sixth 

 prize in the American Agriculturist contest the year before, was won by Mr. 

 Nesbit, of Colorado, whose farm adjoins Mr. Chisholm's, who used a heavy 

 application of stable manure only, his yield being 491 bushels, or 356 bushels 

 less per acre than Chisholm's crop grown with the Mapes Manure. 



In growing Mr. Chisholm's crop the land was marked out and drilled 

 three inches deep in furrows, 33i^ inches apart with the Aspinwall Potato 

 Planter. The seed was dropped by hand ten inches apart in the furrows on 

 May 16th, making 18,360 hills on the acre. Then 500 lbs. of Mapes Potato 

 Manure was strewn by hand through the furrows, and, of course, directly 

 upon the seed. Now the seed was covered two inches deep with the Aspin- 

 wall Potato Planter. Another lot of 500 lbs. of Mapes Potato Manure was 

 sown evenly by hand directly over or along the furrows. The two years' 

 Agriculturist contests have clearly demonstrated the superiority of fertili- 

 zers or chemical manures over stable manure for potatoes. 



(From the American Agriculturist, May 18th, 1888.) 

 Crops of Corn, 100 Bushels and Over. 

 Crops of one hundred bushels of shelled corn are rare, but they are not 

 an impossibility. We have seen, on the farm of Mr. E. S. Carman, on Long 

 Island, a crop of one hundred and thirty-four (134) bushels of shelled corn 

 raised on one acre of land. The variety grown was Blount's Prolific, the 

 soil a light sandy loam, the fertilizer used was the Mapes Corn Manure, 

 applied three or four times during the season— altogether not over one- 

 quarter of a ton— and the cultivation consisted of running a cultivator be- 

 tween the rows after every rain, and after the application of the fertilizer. 

 The labor and expense bestowed upon this acre was not more than any in- 

 telligent farmer gives to his crop. If he expects a big yield. On the same 

 farm four acres of Chester County Corn yielded eight hundred and fifty-six 

 (856) bushels of corn ears, the best acre 159.37 bushels shelled corn, the poor- 

 est 63.74, average, 118.69 (shelled) actual measurement.— Editors. 



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