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Copyright, 1897, by The Garden and Forest Publishing Company. 



[$4.00 a Year, in advance. 



The Mapes Manures. 



Fertilizers for Hard Times. Prices Reduced. Standard Maintained. 



Basis of the Mapes Manures is Pure Bone, th, BEST FORMS of Ammonia, Nitrogen and Potasli are addetl and in the best proportions. 

 They enrich the soil same as stable manure. Hundreds of farms brought up and maintained in rich condition with 

 paying crops for some twenty years, including the past year of 1S96. 



Some of those who held potatoes for higher prices are holding 

 them yet ! " 



" Have you not cut down your fertilizers on account of the hard 

 times? " 



"No, sir; there was no falling off in the amount of fertilizers 

 applied in 1895. Our total outlay for fertilizers in 1895 was $681.11, 

 or an average of $6.81 for each acre on the farm. You will notice 

 that the total gross income was $26.72 per acre." 



" But have you not used a lower grade fertilizer?" 



"No, I use the same brand that I always have. This is no time 

 to cut down on quality. If the high-grade goods are cheapest in good 

 times, they are even more desirable in hard times. My reason for 

 keeping up to the mark with fertilizers in these hard seasons is that I 

 cannot afford to take any chances on poor crops." 



MAPES MANURES AND GRASS SOD IN jFIVE YEARS' 

 ROTATION. ALL FARM MANURE USED ON CORN. 



(From Rural Neiu Vprker, July 27th, 1S96.) 

 This system has been fully explained in a pamphlet. It is enough 

 to say here that four crops are grown — potatoes, corn, wheat and 

 grass. The potatoes are planted after corn, .vith 1,500 pounds of 

 high-grade fertilizer to the acre. After digging, the potato ground is 

 worked over and seeded to wheat with timothy, and clover is added 

 in the spring. After two years or more of grass, the stable manure is 

 hauled and spread on the sod. This is all plowed under in the spring, 

 and the ground is planted to corn — to be followed by potatoes, and so 

 on through the rotation. The large dressing of fertilizer on the 

 potatoes is supposed to carry through the wheat and grass. In case 

 it is evidently needed, extra fertilizer is applied to these crops, but, 



generally speaking, the fertilizer used on the potatoes answers for 



potatoes, wheat and grass. A quantity of fertilizer is used in addition 



to the manure, on the corn. LARGE PROFIT IN STRAWBERRIES, ETC. 



Highest Quality of Fruit — Unusually Heavy Yield. 



Fourteen to Fifteen Acres. Over 6,000 Quarts Strawberries (Varieties, 



Bubach, Warfield, Wolverton and Gandy) per Acre. Large 



Prices Realized. Blackberries and Raspberries. 



Mr. J. A. Davis, of Greensboro, Md., reports December gth, 1S96 : 

 " The Mapes Fruit and Vine Manure has given me better satisfaction 

 than any I have ever used. I apply 1,000 pounds per acre at the time 

 of setting the plants. I picked not less than six thousand (6,000) 

 quarts of strawberries to the acre. This fertilizer is equally good tor 

 blackberries and raspberries. For a general land strengthener this 

 fertilizer surpasses any I ever used before." 



Mr. L. Shanley Davis, commission merchant, 100 Barclay Street, 

 New York, who handled 52,100 quarts of the fruit shipped to New 

 York by J. A. Davis, Greensboro, Md., reports: "The average price 

 received for season of 1896 for the Davis strawberries was eight and 

 three-quarters (8%) cents net per quart. This was two to three cents 

 above the market price for berries during the season. The blackber- 

 ries were of the Lucretia Dewberry variety. These were also very 

 fine and sold during the season from eight (8) to twelve (12) cents per 

 quart." 



In spite of the hard times and the past season of so-called disastrously low prices of farm produce there 

 are many growers of potatoes, wheat, hay, strawberries and even apples, who have used the Mapes Manures 

 exclusively for long periods of years who " weathered the storm " of the past depression in prices and had the 

 same experience as related above by Mr. Lewis and Mr. Davis, and who have purchased as much of the 

 Mapes Manures for use in 1897 as in any previous year. 



Says the American Agriculturist, March 13, 1897, in commenting on the Mapes Manures : " It is in times 

 like these that more than ever the BEST is the CHEAPEST." 



Descriptive Pamphlet Mailed Free. — This pamphlet contains full descriptions of the Mapes Manures, with full direc- 

 tions up to date, embracing the practical methods used by the most successful growers of potato, farm crops, in renovating 

 grass and clover lands, and growing of truck, vegetables, tobacco and fruits, strawberries, orchards, etc. 



143 LIBERTY STREET, 

 NEW YORK. 



WHEAT 25 TO 30 BUSHELS PER ACRE. HAY 2'., TONS 

 PER ACRE, WITHOUT ADDITIONAL FERTILIZER. 



Mr. D. C. Lewis, Middlesex Co., N. J., in a recent interview states : 

 "My wheat will run from 25 to 30 bushels per acre, and, even in this 

 dry season, I have grass that will cut 2}n tons per acre. If I had 

 dropped off on fertilizers for the past two years, my grass would have 

 been poor stuff. At present prices for hay, an acre of grass is one of 

 the most profitable things on the farm. You might say that we might 

 have saved by putting less fertilizer on the potatoes, and then apply- 

 ing more directly to the wheat and grass. All that I can say is that 

 our plan of crowding it upon the potato crop has always given us the 

 best general satisfaction." 



" But how did you manage to sell $1,000 worth of potatoeslast 

 year at those awful prices ? " 



"I sold them as fast as they were dug, and took my chances. 

 Prices seemed low then — 30 and 40 cents per bushel — and many 

 farmers laughed at me for selling. I knew, however, just about what 

 potatoes cost me, and felt sure that any price above 25 cents was 

 profit. This is a time for small profits, and I took what I could get. 



THE MAPES FORMULA & PERUVIAN GUANO CO., 



