[February, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1882 .] 
The MAPES COMPLETE MANURES 
For Early Potatoes, Cabbages, Cucumbers, and Early Truck of all kinds. 
RESULTS ON POTATOES, VEGETABLES, ORANGES, ETC., DURING EAST UNFAVORABLE SEASON, 1881. 
Lewis Beach, New Castle, Westchester Co.. N. Y., reports, Nov. 1,1881: . My experiments this season with Mapes Complete Manure have been, as usual, very satisfactory. Although 
the season has been extremely dry since the middle of duly, my crop of Potatoes was excellent, while those of my neighbors, in some cases, were hardly worth digging. X planted the 
White Rose variety in hills 2)4 feet each way, 2 eyes to tne hill, using about 3 bags Complete Manure per acre, with results as follows: 
Mapes Complete Manure yielded per Acre.........344 bushels. 
Natural Soil, good... -191 “ 
Increase per Acre.153 
At the time of digging they were worth $1.00 per hushel, making the in¬ 
crease $153.00. 
Cost of Mapes Manure per acre.;.. flTM 
Extra Labor with same... 3-00 
Net profit per Acre from Mapes Manures, $132.60. 
$20.40 
A portion of the field was manured with barn-yard manure, fair dressing, 
aud where Mapes Complete Manure v-as added the yield was, per acre379 bushels. 
Barn-yard manure alone yielded..235 “ 
Increase with Mapes Complete Manure.i44 “ 
Valued as above.$144.00 
Expenses as above. 20.40 
-- $123.60 
Leaving a net profit from use of Mapes Complete Manure of $123.60 per acre. 
In the above experiments, Mapes Complete Manure yielded.344 bushels. 
Barn-yard manure alone.2S5 “ 
Asparagus, 1st Premium.grown by Valentine Frost. 
“ 2d “ . “ G. H. Townsend. 
Leaving a balance In favor of Mapes Manure.109 “ 
C S Grant Bayville, Ocean Co., N. J., reports, Dec., 1881: 1 used the Mapes Manures alone this year fur Potatoes, Cabbages. Beets, and general truck, and had the beBt. yield I ever 
had notwithstanding the dry season. Shall use them next year. My neighbors, who used stable manure, besides other patent fertilizers, had their vegetables, melons, etc., burned up 
by the drv weather. I was the only one in the neighborhood who had any vegetable crops worth naming. 
S P Keator, Rosendale, Ulster Co., N. Y., reports, Dec. 6th, 1881: Soil, sandy loam ; season unfavorable ; 3 bags per acre of Mapes Potato Manure in the hill slightly covered 
with soil Yield 200 bushels per acre ; quality good. I used the Mapes Potato Manure on a sandy soil the past season, and must say that I raised the finest potatoes of the Early Rose 
variety that I ever raised. They tvere free from w'orms, and the soil was light and sandy, sti.l they yielded 200 bushels per acre, with no other manure. 
R E Pinney sutfield, Hartford Co., Conn., reports, Nov. 2,4881: I have never been able before this season to raise potatoes on my farm, although I have tried many brands of 
fertilizers and stable ma .ure also. This crop, grown with The Mapes Potato Manure, is the best crop of potatoes I have ever raised. 
Some Premium Crops, season 1881, at Queeus County Agricultural Society Summer Fair, at Mineola, Fong Island,1 
grown with the Mapes Complete Manures. 
Lettuce and Spinach...grown by John Breen. 
Early Potatoes.. „ £-A Ve ?, ks - . 
Early Peas.. l • Baylls. ! 
These last awards make seven Premium Crops of Asparagus grown with the Mapes Manure since 1878, exhibited at Queens County Agricultural Fairs, at Mineola, the section where 
there are so many of the well-known “ Oyster Bay Asparagus ” growers. The First premium Crops of Cauliflowers, Cabbage, Savoy, Early Potatoes, and Seed Potatoes, at the same Fair, 
1880 were “Town with the Mapes Manures. 
’ Orau"e Groves ill Florida. -Dr. G W. Lancaster, of De Land, Volusia Co., Florida, writes, October 27th, 1881, “I have used your ‘ Orange-tree Manure ’ on my groves 
the Dast. vear witn the very best results It surpasses all other orange-tree fertilizers I know of. It not only causes a vigorous, healthy growth, but it effectually cleans out all varieties 
of the sca'le insects peculiar to the orange trees of Florida, probably because of its power , f promoting health and vigor to the tree. Many tons will be needed in this locality next year. ’ 
The “ Orauge-i’ree’ Manure” is the preparation we recommend also for all nursery young stock, ana small and large fruit-trees; also strawberries, grapes, raspberries, currants, etc., 
when vigorous growth is required without detriment to fruiting qualities. 
THE MAPES MANURES are the CHEAPEST in the market, according to valuations by the NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL STATION, 
Prof. Geo. H. Cook. Director, New Brunswick, N. J. 
From n circular iust nublished by the New Jersey Agricultural Station we gather the following information, which may be of value to farmers. Of the brands of fertilizers best 
irnmcT, id thto inmmiiitv thp spiling mice per ton exceeds the estimated value in the following cases, the figures being the excess of price over estimated value per ton : Allentown 
Uo?>c «is ci.pnmmnnwealth Rone Meal, $17.57; Smith’s Bone Phosphate, $5.64 ; Stockbridge s Grain Manure, $J.3); Stockbridge s Potato Manure, $15.76; Star Bone Phosphate, $.0.33; 
Star Guano ’$13 51 - Soluble Pacific Guano, $8.67. Two brands are estimated to be worth MORE per ton than the selling price, as follows: Mapes’s A Brand, $1.94; Mapes’s Corn Manure, 
$2.07.— IIi didstown N. J.) Gazette, Aug. 18, 1881. 
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