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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Fertilization based on Scientific and Practical Teachings ! 
The Mapes Complete Manures. 
For Each Crop Adapted to Different Soils. 
For detailed reports of practical results on Corn, Potatoes, Vegetables, Tobacco, Fruit, Trees, Wheat, Eye, Grass 
crops, etc., see forthcoming pamphlet; sent free on application. 
CORN—Six acres, with orchard treeE, 168 bushels ears per acre. Variety, Western Dent, 400 pounds of the Mapes Corn 
Manure per acre (coat $10 per acre). G. Howard King. Stony Brook, Suffolk Co., New York. 
CORN—Ten acres. Variety, White Flint, (not a heavy yielder.) My corn has turned out splendidly, three and four, up 
to seven ears of corn on a stalk I send you a stalk with seven ears on when cut. It is remarkable how few nubbins 
there are. This corn shells out over 80 bushels to the acre When your representative told me two years ago you 
could raise 75 bushels shelled corn per acre on these “plains,” I thought him too enthusiastic, but on this farm X have 
proved his statement to be moderate—used three bags per acre broadcast. J. G. Shepard, Hicksville, Long Island. 
CORN—For reports of crops grown during past season, on farm cf Rueal New Yorker, at Hewlett’s, Long Island, see 
Rural New Yorker, October 9th, November 13th and 20th, 1880. 
CORN—142 bushels shelled corn per acre.. Variety. (Blount’s Prolific,) 500 lbs. per acre Mapes Manure ; broadcast. 
CORN—300 bushels corn (ears) per acre; 4 acres. Variety, (Chester Co.,) 350 lb3. Mapes Manure ; broadcast per acre. 
These crops were examined, and reports published, signed by 
Robert J. Dodge, C. E., Pres’t Farmers’ Club, American Institute. 
W. M. Habirshaw, F. C. S., Chemist, N. Y. State Agricultural Society. 
L. C. Benedict, Ed. “New York World. 
Mr. Brnggerhoff (of the firm of James M. Thorburn & Co., seedsmen,) was one of those who a few days previously to 
the above investigation estimated the yield of the Chester Co. Mammoth. His estimate was based upon the yield of stooks 
In the west portion of the field, and, as we have since ascertained, that part of the field yields most heavily. The following 
is his certificate: 
This is to certify that three stooks of the Chester Co. Mammoth, which I selected as of average size, were husked and 
measured in my presence, and that at the same rate per acre the yield would be at least SCO bushels of perfect ears. 
F. W. Bruggerhoff. 
These crops were also examined by Prof. A. R. Ledoux, Director of N. C. Station ; Dr. F. M. Hexamer, Ed. "American 
GardenDr. Henry Stewart, Agr’l Ed. “New York Times Mr. E. Williams, Sec'y N. J. State Horticultural Society. It 
Is claimed by the growers of these crops that they comprise the “greatest yield of Indian corn on Record produced 
under inexpensive cultivation without farm manure." 
For further description of these crops see “New York World 1 ’ (Weekly Ed.) Oct. 27th, In editorial, entitled “How to 
Grow Extra Yields of Corn;” also “New York Times” (Weekly Ed.) October 27th, under heading “Large Crops of 
■Corn.” 
POTATOES—(Burbanks or White Rose). Yield, 400 Bushels per Acre. 800 lbs. Mapes’ Potato Manure per acre scat¬ 
tered In the rows. Grown by Robinson Gordon, Manorville, L. I., who writes October 15th: “I send you one barrel of 
potatoes raised from your Potato Manure” (160 potatoes filled the barrel and weighed 180 lbs.) “This is the first season 
I have tried it. I used four bags to the acre, and had remarkably good results from its effects. I had four hundred 
bushels to the acre of the finest potatoes I ever raised, remarkably smooth and good flavored, as you will see by the 
barrel I send you. I have raised potatoes for the last thirty years, more or less for market, but never had such good 
results before. I have tried three different kinds of manure this season, but yours has done the best. I shall use it In 
preference to any other next season.” 
POTATOES—E. S. Brownell, Essex Junction, Vt., the well-known originator of “Brownell’s Beauty,” “Centennial,” 
“Pride of America,” and other celebrated seedlings, wrote to B. K Bliss & Sons, New York, Sept. 27th, 1880: “I bought 
of you last spring some of Mapes’ Potato Manure, which excelled any fertilizer that I ever used in producing smooth 
and large tubers. I got one-third morocrop than was produced alongside when it was not used. The potatoes that I 
send you for exhibition, Nos. 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,56, or “White Star,” show the effects of Mapes’ Potato Manure. I ex¬ 
pect to use it more extensively another season.” These potatoes, as well as the “Pride of America,” grown with the 
Mapes’ Potato Manure, enlisted the verdict at the several fairs as being the smoothest and finest quality potatoes of¬ 
fered. 
POTATOES—(Late Rose.) Report of W. H. Walbert, Lanark, Lehigh Co., Penn., Nov. 12, 1880. 
Bushels per acre. Quality. 
Yield with natural soil........... 75 Medium. 
“ “ stable manure, 15 two-horse loads... 140 Good. 
“ » *** *’s Mineral Fertilizer. 60 Very poor. 
“ “ Mapes’ Potato Manure, 400 lbs. per acre...190 Very good. 
Boil, chocolate loam; season very dry—had hardly any rain. Mr. Walbert adds: “For potatoes the season was too aw¬ 
fully dry. I wonder only how your fertilizers gave so many potatoes. The year before (1879) was a good season for 
raising potatoes, and the yield was immense. Potatoes are my chief crop.” 
VALUATION OF THE MAPES COMPLETE MANURE “A” Brand, by the New Jersey State Agri¬ 
cultural Station Bulletin, July 3, 1880, shows this manure to be the cheapest of all the twenty-five fertilizers 
examined . 
The “New York Times,” July 21,1880. states: 
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in thus examining fertilizers sent to them, and pointing out the actual value of these compounded manures. 
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A Citrus Fair.— We learn from the excellent 
“ Semi-Tropic Californian,” now the only horticultural 
journal on the Pacific Coast, that there is to be a “Citrus 
Fair,” held at Los Angelos. Cal., from the 14th to the 
19th of March next. Oranges, Lemons, and ail other pro¬ 
ducts of the genus Citrus are to be exhibited and liberal 
premiums will be awarded. The cultivation of the 
genus Citrus is the leading industry in that part of Cali¬ 
fornia of which Los Angelos is the center, and we have 
no doubt that the exhibition will be of sufficient inter¬ 
est to attract visitors from all parts of the State. 
Non-Freezing Swill Barrels —“Sylvanns,” 
writes from Rockland Co., N. Y., that in building a pig¬ 
gery last year, he sank a large molasses cask in one cor¬ 
ner. It has a closely fitting lid, level with the surface 
of the ground. This not only gives more space than if 
the cask stood in the room, but has kept the swill from 
freezing in the coldest weather. He thinks it no ’-'ttle 
advantage that it also keeps the food cool in summer. 
Wliat to Bo, —“G. H. N.,” Boston,Mass., writes: 
“ I intend to take np my residence in the Northwest.... 
My knowledge of farming is limited. Do you publish, 
or can you give me the name of any publications which 
will give me sufficient information to justify me in tak¬ 
ing a farm ?”—It would no doubt be best for you to go 
into the locality where you propose to settle, and there 
work with a successful farmer for at least one year. At 
the end of that time you will be better able to judge as 
to your future course. As to books, there are a number 
of valuable works upon farming. Such as Alien’s Farm 
Book, Miles’ Stock Breeding, How Crops Grow, and How 
Crops Feed, by Prof. S. W. Johnson, and others. But 
the best of all is the actual work of the farm ; no books 
can be a substitute for this, but they form a most useful 
accompaniment, and can not well ba dispensed with- 
