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HOWE’S POTATO MANUAL. 
Pamphlets Sent Free Bf The Mapes Company. 
1. Potato Growing. 
The American Agriculturist’s Great PRIZE CHOP CONTEST. — Pota- 
toes, Corn, Wheat, Oats. How the two largest crops of potatoes 
ever grown with fertilizers or manure, (847 and 745 bushels per 
acre) were raised with the MAPES POTATO MANURE. Over 6,100 
bushels of potatoes on a 20-acre field at Freehold, New Jersey, Season, 1S90. 
This field “ was formerly the poorest on the farm ; rarely in former years, did 
this farm, with farm manure, bone and marl, and under favorable conditions, 
produce 20 bushels of wheat nr 40 to 50 barrels of potatoes per acre.” Since 
the commencement of the use of the MAPES MANURES, some 15 years ago, 
the land has become so much improved that the crops for 6 years and over 
have averaged NEARLY DOUBLE those of former years. Other farms 
brought up from poor to good condition, and with profit from the start by 
the MAPES SYSTEM of manuring on a 5-year rotation: One ton per acre 
of the MAPES POTATO MANURE on potatoes; succeeding crops, wheat, 
grass, (2 years or more). Corn, with little or no additional fertilizer. Full 
details given. 
2. Tobacco Growing. 
Suggestions for more successful competition against Sumatra wrapper 
leaf. — Remarkable results with the MAPES TOBACCO MANURE in Massa- 
chusetts. Connecticut and Pennsylvania in producing Yield, Quality, Good 
burn, High finish, etc. 2,400 pounds Havana Leaf per acre, on an average 
for 5 years in Connecticut bv an old user of the MAPES MANURE. 
Colored Photographs of Havana Leaf (crop, 1891) grown exclusively with 
the MAPES TOBACCO MANURE, showing Fine Texture, Finish and 
High Value for wrappers as compared with crops grown with stable manure, 
cotton seed meal, etc. Highest market prices obtained. 
3. Fruit and Orange Growing. 
Necessity of SPECIAL manuring for promoting QUALITY and QUAN- 
TITY of fruits. — Oranges, Grapes, Small Fruits, apart from vigorous wood 
growth. 
4. Descriptive Pamphlet. 
THE MAPES MANURES and HOW TO USE THEM: On Truck, 
Ciibbage, Cauliflower, Sugar Beets, Tomatoes (for canning), Onions, Celery, 
Rhubarb, Top dressing Grass or Lawns, Seeding to Grass, Orchards, Tobacco, 
Small Fruits, Grapes and general Farm Crops. 
5. Chemicals and Clover. 
(Now in Press) by H. W. Collingwood, of the Rural New-Yorker, an 
account of visits to farms that are now producing double the crops of former 
years before the MAPES HIGH-GRADE MANURES were used. No live 
stock kept except horses, cows and pigs, for farm work and family use. All 
farm manure used on the corn crop. Farming made easier. Poor lands 
brought up to high fertility. 
Arrangements have been perfected whereby users of fertilizers , even in sections where 
the MARES MANURES are not for sale by local, dealers , can procure these manures in 
ANT Q UANTITY {one bay and upwards) at reasonable rates. Correspondence solicited. 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO CO. 
143 Liberty St., N. Y. Branch at 242 State St., Hartford, Conn. 
