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THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



[March. 



THE COMPLETE MANURES, 



Potatoes. 



i, 600 Bushels of POTATOES 011 6 ACRES — Season 

 1881, 011 " Vassar College" Farm. Potato Crop in 

 neighborhood a failure. 



Mr. BENSON VAN VLIET, Genl. Supt. "Vassar College," Jan. 30, 1882, writes:— 

 "We liave used your Manures principally on Potatoes, generally on old used-up 

 meadow land. Last year the potato crop was a failure all about us, hut we secured a 

 large crop; the Largest in tlie county, having secured over l,(i()0 bushels 

 of excellent variety stud quality from K acres of land, which serves us a good 

 turn, as we have to-day sold inn bushels at sl.:in. and have ?nn bushels left over for 

 our own use. l'art of the result 1 attribute to having planted at the right time, hut 

 the largest share of credit b -longs to the Manure for st rengt hening a ud nourishing 

 the plants through the nri-ul ,1 i unlit nit nil en us,,/ .so 111,111 1/ fit 1 I 11 res ,, // nleillt lis. 



"It has never in previous years been thought /«iraWf/» raise I'ulnlnes on the Col- 

 li ■!■ nirin. Imt I think we can raise almost anything I. \ using proper enriching sub- 

 stances awl plenty of it." (Mr. Van Yliet used '.'n bags of the Mapes Potato Manure 



Top Dressing Grass. 



Early Spring application of two bags per acre of 

 "The Mapes Grass and Grain Spring Top Dressing " 

 brought two ''tons per acre " first-class hay." More 

 than doubled the crop. Pour bags of the Mapes 

 Corn Manure alongside of forty loads Stable Manure. 

 SAMUEL CADWELL. Glastonbury, Hartford, Co., Conn.. November 30th, 1881, 

 writes: "I applied unrhi lust s/,riiiiii the Mapes Crass and drain 'fop Dressing, 

 400 lbs. per acre, on a piece of old grass land (heavy soil) which hail been in grass 12 



vears without mire, and harvested at the rate of '_» i,,ns pit- „ n v of first-class hay. 



The Mapes Top Dressing in, ire iltmt tl,inl,lr,l my crop ol hay, and was of much better 

 quality than from the other part of the Held where nothing was applied. I am satis- 

 tied it paid me well. I also used the Mapes Potato Manure alone, on heavy soil 

 (dav sub-soil). -Inn lbs. per acre in the hills, distributed and covered slightly with 

 earth before dropping tic potatoes. The yield was l'jn bushels of salable potatoes 

 per acre, besides the small ones and a few that rotted ; quality, fair and smooth. 1 

 also used the Mapes Cum Manure, Klin lbs. per acre, broadcast, alone, alongside 

 of 40 loads per acre of stable manure, « ith results about equal." 



Top Dressing Grass. 



One bag per acre of "The Mapes Grass and Grain 

 Spring Top Dressing" caused a new growth of tim- 

 othy and clover, but no weeds, while the barn- 

 yard manure made a growth of weeds, sorrel, and 

 such like. Preference of cattle for portion of pas- 

 ture fertilized with the top-dressing. 



SAMUEL H. WISNER, Warwick. Orange Co., N. Y., .Tan. 5th, 1882, writes to Finch 

 A Colwell: " The half-ton Mapes's Tup Dressing fertilizer. I purchased of you last 

 April, which I used mi grass has given me entire satisfaction. I used 'only ''00 

 pounds per acre, and received this last season double Ihe yield from the portion of 

 the field 1 used it on that I did mi the ether portion of the same field that I ferti- 

 lized with barn-vard manure. It vielded also on the portion I used the Mapes Top 

 Dressing, three twiei litis *•«„.« what it did last year, where I fertilized with barii- 

 i/tirtl manure tmlii. Where I used the barn-vard manure the growth of treeils. sorrel 

 ami such like was very profuse on the contrary, w here I used the Mapes Top Dres- 

 sing, there was a new growth of timet by and clover, nml „,, treet/s. sure, I. „r a 11 i/tlinm „f 

 that kind. I also discovered that when I turned mv cattle m the field they would 'eat 

 the pasture tirst from that portion fertilized with the To], Dressing- eating it all up 

 and leaving entirely untouched the other portion of the same field that was ferti- 

 lized with barn-yard manure, till they had eaten the other up. and then did not eat 

 the latter all up. The tirst season they will not eat pasture fertilized with barn-vard 

 manure, which is w ell known by all farmers, but this thev cat as soon as thev get 



Top Dressing Grass. 



W. S. & H. E. SAVAGE. East Berlin. Conn.. July 10, lssl. reports: "On lov 

 meadow, too low tor cultivation without draining, we applied in August. 1880, witl 

 grass seed, '2 bags of the Mapes Complete .Manure, the yield from the natural soi 

 without fertilizer was about 1 ton of hay per acre, where 'the " A" Brand is used wi 

 judge it to be 2 tons per acre." 



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