April. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1882.] 
Musical Reading 
FOR THE MILLION! 
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T>/"VTVr i 'VT/'ITTi is remembered in the Biographi- 
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THE LETTERS oFME:srr,ELssoHN 
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THE LIVES 
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TITCTHUVi" well represented by RITTER’S 
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$1.50), compact and complete, while Elson serves up in his 
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The Mapes Complete Manures 
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•SWEET CORN, POTATOES, CABBAGES, ANJD 
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R. F. SCHWARZ, Analomink, Monroe Co., Penn., Octo¬ 
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the Mapes Corn Manure. Yield was 27,000 good ears on one 
and a half acre. From five tons of wood ashes (tannery 
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ears. I ield from natural soil was only 500 ears on one- 
fourth acre. Potatoes.— 800 lbs. per acre of the Mapes 
Potato Manure. Yield 160 bushels per acre. Yield from 
natural soil, 50 bushels per acre. Cabbages. -1,000 lbs. 
per acre of the Mapes Complete Manures. Out of 8,000 
plants there were not 200 plants that did not head. The 
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Green Peas.— 500 lbs. per acre of the Mapes “ A ” Brand. 
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TOBACCO AND CORN. 
Messrs. J. E. WIGHT & SON, North Hatfield, Mass., 
write, November 11, 1881We have used the Mapes To¬ 
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poor land, and can say that 1,600 lbs. per acre has produced 
better tocacco than where we have used eight ci rds of 
stable manure to the acre. We sweat our tobacco and sell 
to the manufacturers, and have always been able to obtain 
ahiglier price for the'fertilized tobacco than for the manured 
tobacco. We also used the Mapes Corn Fertilizer, forty 
dollars' worth on four acres, and harvested 500 bushels 
of ears of sound corn—soil light, and has been crop¬ 
ped with corn and rye for the past twenty years, and has re¬ 
ceived no manure for ten years. 
Extract from the AMERICAN AGRICULTUR¬ 
IST, February, page 75, 1SS2. 
“Among the makers of fertilizers ‘the Mapes Formula 
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the proper way to build up a reputation was to court an¬ 
alyses of their fertilizers. We have recentlj been shown 
the returns of some thirty analyses, made at different 
experiment stations. The samples were in part sent by 
farmers and in part by representatives of the stations from 
stock on sale. In 
NO CASE DID THE PERCENTAGES OF THE 
VALUABLE CONSTITUENTS FALL SHORT OF THE AMOUNT 
claimed. The valuation at the stations, as calculated from 
the analysis, averaged for the whole 
$1.15 PER TON HIGHER THAN THE SELLING PRICE. 
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but the average is as above stated. It is but proper to add 
that the results obtained by the tobacco growers in Con¬ 
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“ truck ” on Long Island, and the potato and wheat farmers 
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izers the value indicated by the chemists.” 
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SECOND TO NONE 
Sale in 1865 - 754 Tons. 
“ “ 1881 - - 55,000 “ 
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