GRAPES, STRAWBERRIES, ORCHARDS, 

 PEACHES, SMALL FRUIT, ETC. 



Eight First Premiums on Stra-wbeiries— Uapes Fruit and Vine Uanure Used Alone. 

 A. W. Clark, Ashton, R. I., reports, December 8th, 1893: 

 "In regard to the strawberry crop on which I took so many premiums I will ■ 

 say that the crop was grown with the Mapes strawberry fertilizer (Mapes Fruit 

 and Vine Manure) without any yard manure whatever. The soil was heavy 

 loam, and the land had not been broken up for thirty years previous to the 

 spring of 1891, when it was planted to potatoes, a little fertilizer being used 

 in the hill without any other manure. In the spring of 1892 the land was 

 plowed, at the rate of 1,500 lbs. fertilizer per acre applied broadcast, harrowed 

 in, and the plants set. The plants were set four feet apart between the rows 

 and allowed to mat, no other dressing being applied to the plants. The crop 

 matured the best of any crop of berries! have ever grown, and I consider the 

 Mapes fertilizer just what the plant needs, and shall use it on my new set beds 

 next season. The crop was at'the rate of 150 bushels per acre and without 

 extra care." 



"I herewith inclose you premium cards showing that eight first, one second 

 and three third premiums were awarded at the R. I. Horticultural Strawberry 

 Exhibition in June, 1893, for berries grown by the Mapes fertilizer, as stated 

 above." 



Eate of 300 Bushels Strawberries per Acre ; 125 Bushels Easpherries per Acre. 

 W. A. Freed, Homewood, Pa., writes, December 15th, 1893: 

 "I raised at the rate of 300 bushels strawberries and 125 bushels red rasp- 

 berries per acre with the Mapes Fruit and Vine Manure. This is a mighty big 

 yield on our poor clay ground." 



Eight Tears on Apple and Fear Orchards. 



Wilmer Atkinson, editor and proprietor of The Farm Journal, has used 

 the Mapes Manures for many years on his farms. Under the heading 

 "Orchards," in The Farm, Journal, January, 1894, Mr. Atkinson writes: 



"We are often asked what kind of fertilizers to use in the orchard, and 

 perhaps as good an answer as we can give is, use Mapes Manures, for this is 

 the kind and only kind we have used in our young thirty-acre orchard since it 

 was planted eight years ago. The trees are vigorous and healthy, are now 

 coming into bearing, and the past season we cut three tons of timothy hay 

 per acre off a part of the orchard, and we have not used a ton of stable manure 

 from the beginning. While pure, fine-ground bone and muriate of potash are 

 splendid fertilizers for all orchards, and we can recommend them, but in 

 Mapes Manures we have something ready mixed; we know wha"t we are get- 

 ting, and they are good enough for us. We have found these manures equally 

 good for grass, potatoes and corn as for orchard trees." 



J. H. Hale, of G. H. & J. H. Hale, Elm Fruit Farm and Nursery, South 

 Glastonbury, Conn., January 14th, 1889, writes: 



"The Mapes Fruit and Vine Manure gives brighter color, better flavored 

 and firmer berries than can possibly be obtained with stable manure." 



