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THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



[January. 



THE MAPES COMPLETE MANURES, 



For Early Potatoes, Cabbages, Cucumbers, and Early Truck of all kinds. 



RESULTS ON POTATOES, VEGETABLES, ORANGES, ETC., DURING PAST UNFAVORABLE SEASON, 1881. 



Lewis Beach, New Castle, Westchester Co., X. Y.. reports, Nov, 1, 1881 : My experiments this season with Mapes < 'oniplete Manure have hcon, as usual, very 

 satisfactory. Alt hough 1 he season lias been extremely dry since the middle ol 'July, my crop of Potatoes was excellent . w liile t hose of my neighbors, in some cases, were 

 hardly worth digging. I planted the White Hose variety in hills '_> C feet each way, 2 eves to the hill, using about :! Lags < oniplete Manure- per acre, with results as 

 follows : 



Mapes complete Manure .Me lded per acre 344 bushels. 



Natural Soil, good 191 



Increase per acre 



At the time of digging thev were worth §1.00 per bushel, making the increase si .">:>. 00. 



Cost of Mapes Manure per acre 



Extra Labor with same 



.153 



Net prolit per acre from Mapes Manures, sl.32.60. 



A portion of the held was manured with barn-yardrmanu 



Barn-yard manure alone yielded 



, fair dressing, and where Mapes < oniplete Manure was added the yield was, per acre. .370 bushels. 



Leaving a net profit from use of Mapes < • ph-ie Manure „f sl'_!:s.C0 per acre. 



In the alio vo experiments, Mapes Complete Manure yielded 344 bushels. 



Barn yard manure alone 236 " 



balam 



Mapes Manure. 



vege 



ibags per acre of Mapes Potato Manure in the 1 

 y soil the past season, and l 

 were free from worms, and the soil was light ainl sandy, still they yielded '. 



ipes 



, N. J., reports, Dec. 1881 : I used the Mapes Manures alone this year for Potatoes, Cabbages, Beets, and general truck, and had 

 i standing the dry season. Shall use 1 hem next year. M v nemhbni s, who used stable man inc. besides other patent fertilizers, had their 

 up by the dry weather. I was the only one in the neighborhood who had any vegetable crops worth naming, 

 ster Co., N. V., reports, 1 )<•<•. Clh, lnxl : Soil, sandy loam : season unfavorable; 



slightly covered with! " 

 finest potatoes of the 1 

 no other manure. 



R. E. Finney, Sullield, Hartford Co., Conn., reports, Nov. 2. 1881 : I have never been able before Ihis season to raise potatoes on my farm, although I have tried 

 many brands of fertilizers ami stable manure also. Tins crop, grown with Till. M.U'ES Potato Manuuk, is the lw»t crop »f polaic.es I have ever raised. 



Some Preiiiium Crops, season 18S1, at Queens Coiintv Agricultural Soeiely Summer Fair, at Mineola, Long Island, 

 Si-own with the Slopes Complete manures. 



Lettuce and Spinach grown by John Breen. 1 Asparagus, 1st Premium grown by Valentine Froat. 



Early Potatoes " H. Weeks. " 2d " " G. H. Townsend. 



Early Peas " T. Baylis. | 



These last awards make seven Premium Crops of Asparagus grown with the Mapes Manure since 1878, exhibited at < pieens County Agricultural Fairs, at 

 Mineola, the section where there are so many of the well-known "Oyster Lay Asparagus" growers. The First Premium Crops of Cauliflowers, Cabbage, Savoy, 

 Early Potatoes, and Seed Potatoes, at t lie same Fair, 18S0, w ere grown with the .Mapes Manures. 



Orange Groves in Florida. -Dr. G. W. Lancaster, of De Land. Volusia Co.. Florida, w rites, < letober 27th, 1881 : " I have used your • OllANOK-TuKK Manure' 

 on my groves t he pa si year with the very best results. 1 1 surpasses all other orange-tree fertilizers I know of. It not only causes a vigorous, healthy growth, but it 

 effectually cleans out ail varieties of the' scale insects peculiar to the orange-trees of Florida, probably because of its power id' promoting health and vigor to the tree. 

 Many Ions will be needed in this locality next year." The "Orange-Tree Manure " is the preparation we recommend also for all nursery young stock, and small and 

 large fruit 1 roes : also strawberries, v rapes, raspbnrios, currants, etc., when vigorous growth is re.] Hired wit bout del rinienl 1 o I run in ^ nualities. 



THE MAPES MANURES are the < 1 1 U A I'l'.-T in the market, according to valuations by the NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL STATION, 

 Prof. Geo. H. Cook, Director, New Brunswick, N.J. M . ^ M 



From a circular just published In the New .] ersev Airrienltural station we gather tin- follow ing in format ion, which may be of value to farmers, i it the brands of 

 fertilizers best know n in this column n it v. the selling juice per ton exceeds t he est una led value in the following cases, the ti mires being the crow »i price over estimated 

 value per ton: Allentown Hone, slS.oI-. Commonwealth Done Meal. 817.57: Smith's Bone Phosphate. 85.04: stockbridge's (train Manure. s'.i.MO: Sto, kbridge's 

 Potato Manure. 815.70; star Done Dims], bate, 810.33 : star Guano. 813.51 : Soluble Pacific Guano. sS.07. Tw o brands are estimated to be worth MOLE per ton than 

 the selling price, as follows : Mapes's A Brand, 81.94 ; Mapes's Corn Manure, $2.07.— Hightstown ,JY\ J.) Gazette, Aug. 18, 1881. 



THE MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO COMPANY, 



Agricultural Chemists, 158 Front St. New- York. 



The Earliest and Best Dwarf Wrinkled Pea! 



The Most 

 Desirable 



Pea Ever 

 Introduced. 



Extra Early 



Requires No Bushing ! ! 



Exquisite Flavor ! ! ! 



The best variety for forcing under glass, anil the 

 best for early sowing ic the garden. 



ty On account of its exceedingly dwarf habit, it can lie 

 grown in Hot-Beds, like cucumbers or lettuce. 



This new and hue-flavored variety is a seedling, the result 

 of a cross between the favorite varieties, Champion of Eng- 

 land an& Little Gem, raised by Mr. Charles Arnold, the well- 

 known Canadian agriculturist. It comhines all the good 

 qualities of hoth of its parents, with the additional ones of 

 superiority in flavor to the Champion and of greater pro- 

 ductiveness than the Little Gem, besides being earlier than 

 any other of the wrinkled varieties. Peas planted June 5th 

 were ready for the table in thirty-three days from date of 

 planting. On good soil, each vine will average twelve pods, 

 and each pod six peas. Twenty-seven to forty-one pods have 

 been counted on some vines, and nine large peas in some of 

 the pods, and every pod is well filled. The vine grows from 

 eight to ten inches high, according to the soil and season. 

 Having full confidence in the superiority of this variety, we 

 bought the entire stock of the originator, and first offered 

 them in the spring of 1878, since which they have been 

 If5)ll IIC 5 Cf'J jk'd^f^-^ - \0) tested in various parts of the world, and have met with the 

 oL!M^*^# If ^ M, stfy) unqualified approval of all who have given them a trial. 



tigs'-— < 8^JF *.\ll _ %:ilffl)lfej For the past three years the demand lias been far greater 



than the supply, and wo have been unable to fill our orders. 



CAUTION.— As there is another pea in the market 

 called "American Wonder," bo sure and call for "Bliss's 

 AMERICAN W0NDEE," and receive no other. 

 From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, July 14, 1881.— Your peas are wonderful, none others so good. I do 

 not mean to plant another year any others, early or late. They beat the Alpha in earliness, and out of sight in 

 flavor. 



From Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Pres. American Pomological Society, Ex-Pres. U. S. Agricultural Society, 

 June 30, 1881.— My AMEBICAN WONDER is a wonder, equal in sweetness and richness to the Champion of Eng. 

 land, which is all that could be desired. 



One of our growers writes, August 25, 1881: Twenty-seven and one-sixth bushels of Amebican Wonder 

 Peas were grown from ono bushel of tho seed you sent, upon a trifle over an aero of ground. 



PRICES.— One-third pint package, 20 cents ; pint, 55 cents ; quart, $1.00 j by mail, post-paid. When delivered 

 at our store, or sent by express at tho expense of the purchaser : one pint, 40 cents ; one quart, 75 cents ; half 

 peck, $2.75 ; one peck, $5.25. 



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