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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. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, fen ' ivant of space elsewhere. 
CORN— Six acres, with orchard trees, 168 bushels ears per acre. Variety, Western Dent, 400 pounds of the Mapes Corn 
Manure per acre (cost $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 I 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 of Rural 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— 303 bushels corn (ears) per acre; 4 acres. Variety, (Chester Co.,) 850 lbs. 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. Bruggerhoff (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 300 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 
Garden Dr. 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’’ (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.” 
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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 
1 have tried it. I used four bags to the acre, aud had remarkably good results from its effects. I had four hundred 
bushels to the acre of the finest potatoes I ever raised, remarkably smooth aud good flavored, as you will see by the 
barrel I send you. I have raised potatoes for tlie 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 iu 
preference to any other next season.” 
Clubs can at any time be increased by remitting for 
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or a small club may be made a larger one at reduced rates, 
thus: One having sent 6 subscribers and $7, may after¬ 
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for $10.00; and so for the various other club rates. 
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 more crop than was produced alongside when it was not used. The potatoes that I 
Bend 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 tlie “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 Manuie, 400 lbs. per acre.190 Very good. 
Soil, 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, l'he year before (1879) was a good season for 
raising potatoes, and the yield was immense. Potatoes are iny 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: 
“ The value of a purchased fertilizer is an unknown quantity to the purchaser, who must depend solely on the hon¬ 
esty and honor, or at least the skill, of the manufacturers or sellers. The analyses of fertilizers given elsewhere, and 
with which we have beeu favored by Prof. Cook, of the New Jersey Experiment Station, show the risk which apper¬ 
tains to the purchase of these materials. Of 25 samples examined, only four exceeded in intrinsic value the cost price, 
while many of them exceeded very considerably iu cost price their intrinsic value. Of the four, a conspicuous exam¬ 
ple is No. 13 (the Mapes Complete Manure), which is made as a substitute for barn-yard manure, which shows the 
highest ratio of intrinsic value above the cost price. The Exoeriment Stations are doing valuable service for farmers 
in thus examining fertilizers sent to them, and pointing out the actual value of these compounded manures.” 
Special quotations given on material for making Complete Manures from composts or any home resources suitable 
for farm crops, a special manuring of fruit trees, orchards, strawberry, and all small fruits. Fertilizers specially 
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Tan Bark.— “X.,” Cave Spring, Ga. “Will a 
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Prevention of Gad Fly.— E. H. Wood. Lake 
Co., Ill., writes that he prevented the troublesome pests 
from working on his cattle by smearing the back of the 
animals with fish oil. He says: “I kept the oil in a 
dish in the stable and applied it twice a week with a 
swab made of cloth tied on a stick. Rub the fish oil on 
each side of the hack.” The Gad-flies not liking the 
smell of the oil keep away. 
Mashing Roots for Stock.— “W. D.,” Cal¬ 
houn Co., Mich., writes: “1 have a method of handling 
turnips, rutabagas, etc., that I think is much better than 
cutting them and there is no danger that cattle may get 
choked by the pieces; I take a wooden beetle and*# 
block, lay the turnip upon the block and with one blow 
smash it to a pulp or into shreds. If the flnnr is so!«fl 
there is no need of a block.” 
