ADVERTISEMENTS 



RECORD CROPS GROWN WITH THE 



MAPES MANURES 



"American Agriculturist" Prize Potato-Gromnff Contest. Yields from one rneas- 

 uredacre. All records surpassed by the Mape^ Potato Manure. "Jlfew secrets tn 

 Nature's Labor atonf." TJie two largest crops of Potatoes ever grown with ferti- 

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



The following were the LargeBt Crops of potatoes CTown in each state— and all these 

 eropB were grown exclusively with the Mapes Potato Manure; 

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



The if^e^t crop ever grown in Maine. Second lazgest ever grown 

 Tmh fertilizers. 

 Colorado . . . . . . 847 bushels 



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



Massachusetts . 355 bushels 



Connecticut ...... r . . 390 bushels 



The largest crops grown in Massachusetts and Connecticut in sea- 

 son 1889 (280 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 1890, were as follows :— 596, 622, 606, 851, 325, 819 and 307 bushels 

 per acre. 



SUMMING UP THE POTATO CONTESTS 



In seventeen states in which the lai^gest crop was grown with fertilizers, 1389 and 

 1890, ten crops were grown exclusively with the Mapes Potato Manure; 847, 745, 669, 5^, 

 479, 460, 428, 393 and 324 bushels per acre. 



Average yield per acre, 5^ bushels. 



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

 the Mapes, the yields were as follows : 506, 454, 444, 401, 325, 319 and 307 bushels per acre. 



Average yield per acre, 394 bushels. 



The Great Corn Contest of the American Agricalttirist 



Crops BIS, ^^9 ^^ 95 Bitskels Each ; Grown on One Measured A ere 



Exclusively with the Mapes Corn Manure. 



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



Mapes Com 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 coat comes within twenty cents a bushel (shelled com)." 



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

 bushels (chemically dried, 60 bushels). 



Some Larg^e Crops Grown with the Mapes Com Manure and Reported in 

 the Agfricaltiiral Press. 



Season of 1888—1040 bushels of com — ears— on less than 4 1-2 acres, egnal to 233 1^ 

 bushels, or 116 3-4 bushels shelled com per acre, grown on farm of RuralNew Toiker, 

 with the Mapes Com 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 fifty -six bu.]hcl6— ears— on four acres. 159.37 bushels on one acre. 

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



On two acres f;O0 pounds of Mapes alone, broadcast, 198 bushels shelled com. 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; aheUed, 98.45 bushels. 2058 

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

 Farmer. 



The Mapes Formula & Peravian Guano Co., 

 143 Liberty St., New York. 



