[March, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
1879 .] 
MAPES’ COMPLETE MANURES 
For Each Crop and for General Use. 
Mapes’ Corn Manure. 
x Jericho, L. I.—489 bushels (in ear), < 
They supply all tlie required Ingredients, in the proportions which practical experience , and 
the feeding powers and composition (analysis) of each crop show to be best adapted to its successful and 
profitable growth. They leave the land in “ good condition.” 
The leading elements of plant food are furnished in them in the best known forms, as follows: 
Nitrogen , all from Nitrate of Soda, Blood, Flesli, Peruvian Guano, and Bone. 
Ammonia, all from Sulphate of Ammonia and Peruvian Guauo. 
Phosphoric Acid, all from Peruvian Guano and Bone. 
Potash, Magnesia, etc., all from Domestic and German Soluble Potash Salts. 
Each package accompanied with guaranteed Analysis and Directions for Use. 
These manures are also supplied in lots of two tons and over, uuinixed, shipped in their separate and original pack¬ 
ages, at a reduction of five dollars per ton. 
mi « / • i "p "i j from these Manures during the past season have been remarkable for 
I He practical JKiBSlL.HS the sizeand quality of the crops. The grass succeeding the grain crops, 
manured with them in previous years, have been very heavy, exceeding in some cases three tons of hay per 
acre, without additional manures. 
—Some of the results during past season—from ordinary dressings from 
400 to 600 lbs. per acre—were 1,50 t bushels (in car), on ten acres, at 
, on three acres, at Westwood, N. J.-75 bushels shelled corn per 
acre, crop alongside nearly destroyed by worms, at Bridgehampton, L. I.— 150 lbs. per acre produced at Locust 
Valley, L. I., 50 bushels per acre shelled corn, while natural soils alongside yielded only 20 bushels 
per acre.—In experiments on small patches, ]4 x 1-6 of an acre, upwards of 100 bushels shelled corn per 
acre on very poor land. 
Price Reduced to per Bag (200 lbs.), $4.75 ; per Ton, $47.50. 
TVTrt «««’ T3/\4-o-f/-k TVTo V* 11 VO —200 lbs. per acre increased the yield up from 75 bushels (product of 
JLYJLa>p65 Jr OuULU l*i(lllur6. natural soil) to 150 bushels, “Early Rose.” — 100 lbs. per acre gave a 
yield of 225 bushels “ Snow Flake ” and “ Early Rose.”—600 lbs. per acre produced 369 bushels per acre, 
variety “ Peerless.” Quality of this variety usually poor, but in this case equal, I think, to the Rose.”—In 
several cases the potato crop was saved from the grub by use of this manure. A farmer at Locust Valley, L. 
I., reports one-fourth larger yield from 800 lbs. Mapes’ Potato Manure than from 100 loads, costing $43, of 
New York Stable manure; variety “Early Rose;” crop not measured but “very large,” and potatoes from 
“Mapes" Fertilizer ” of finer quality than from stable manure. 
Price Reduced to per Bag (200 lbs.), $4.50 ; per Ton, $45. 
Mapes’ Beet and Mangold Manure • common Salt, produced twelve hun¬ 
dred bushel* per acre of Mangolds of excellent quality, large size, from 10 to 24 lbs. each. Ten tons New- 
York Stable Manure, costing over $25, on same land, produced about one-half this yield—land so poor that “ with¬ 
out the manure It could not grow mangolds worth pulling.” 
Price, per Bag (200 lbs.), $4.80; per Ton, $48. 
Tl/fo ■rioc* Jlcnara (VllC TWTo nil VO —The first and second premium crops of present year at 
AYACtiJ[JCQ AOp<«l Ug Uo lTXClllUi i Miucola Fair, I,. I., and first premium crop last year, were 
raised with this Manure, used with success, at half the cost of Stable-Manure, on ten acres. One farmer in New 
Jersey, who used this Manure on eight acres, writes that he sold $3,000 worth of Asparagus, from this patch. 
Price, per Bag (200 lbs.), $5; per Ton, $50. 
for grain and grass, also vegetable gardens—500 lbs. per acre 
produced on 3J4 acres, 152 bushels White Winter Wheat. 
600 lbs. produced during past favorable (showery) season, 80 bushels per acre of Oats. 250 lbs. yielded 40 bushels 
Oats. 156 bushels Wheat from i'A acres from 1.000 lbs. per acre used in seeding down.—6C0and SOU bushels onions 
per acre. 
Price per bag (200 lbs.), $5.00 ; per ton, $50. 
Detailed report of the immense yield of SPRING WHEAT (Champlain , grown with MAPES’ COMPLETE 
MANURE and barn-yard manure by Alfred Rose, at Penn Yan, Yates Co., New York, given in new pamphlet, 1879. This 
crop (295 pounds from one pound of seed), received the ONLY PRIZE, awarded bv Bliss & Sons, to competitors in 
the Eastern States, 
The above prices include cartage, excepting where total quantity is less than half a ton. Then add fifty cents for cartage. 
For some account of use of these fertilizers, see American Agriculturist," page 53, Feb’y No.; article entitled," One 
Year's Farm, Use of Artificial Fertilizers." 
The results on Tobacco, Onions, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Early Vegetables, Cotton, and Strawberries. Top-dressing grass 
lands, Orange Tree and Fruit culture, have been equally satisfactory and have led to the adoption of these manures by 
growers of specialties, like Onions, Cauliflowers, etc. Market Gardeners, and others who have heretofore depended 
mainly or solely upon New York Stable Manure. 
Mapes’ Complete Manure, 
Send for new descriptive pamphlet, 1879. 
The Mapes' Formula and Peruvian Guano Company 
158 Front St., New York. 
For Experiment: Fertilizers,' 
American Agriculturist, page 112. 
Set A,” and Complete Manure Set, etc., see advertisement in present number 
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