[February, 
AMEEIOAIT AGEIOULTUEIST. 
1884.] 
REMARKABLE POTATO YIELDS FROM THE MATES MANURES. 
355 Boshels 
Manure. 
EXTRACTS FROM POTATO CROP REPORTS WHERE THE MAPES POTATO MANURE WAS USED. 
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“ Mammoth Pearl” on one acre, second application of the Mapes 
240 Basliels, same variety, per acre on balance of field, (20 acres.) 
W. S. Combs, Freehold, N. J. 
684 Bushels “Eximius” on 57 rows—less than one acre. Pour rows of the 61 
rows making a measured acre were swept away by a flood. ...... 
Alfred Rose, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
Mr Alfred Rose also reports yields on experiment plots (100 rows) with new varieties 
as follows: “New Invincible,” 960 Bushels per acre. “Rocky Mountain Rose,” 
948 1-2 Bushels per acre. •■Eximius,” 846 Bushels per acre. 
Protection from Wire Worms, ScaDMness, etc. 
450 Bushels (Early Rose) with two bags (400 lbs.) of Mapes Potato Manure per 
acre. Where 40 loads Cow ancl Hen manure were used yield was only 120 bushels per 
acre, and as Dr. Henry Stewart writes, “ quite a half of this part of the crop (with cow 
and hen manure) was completely destroyed by wire worms and not more than half those 
saved would be fit for sale.” “ Not a potato of those grown with the Mapes Potato Ma¬ 
nure is touched by the worms enough to hurt it.” Dr. Henrt Stewards report of ex¬ 
periment on one quarter of an acre, Hackensack, N. J. 
Henry Holman, East Hartford, Conn. 
300 Bushels 
bushels i)er acre. 
“ Beauty of Hebron,” and over on one half acre, equal to over 600 ^ 
Henry Lathrop, South Windsor, Conn. 
Mr. W. F. Andross, East Hartford, Conn., writes Jan. 1,1884: “The acreao-o of 
Potatoes in this vicinity was more than doubled, the reason for which is attributable I 
think, to the fact that the Mapes Potato Manure has so invariably insured success tnat 
the farmers felt a confidence which has never been warranted by any other method of 
applying fertilizers.” 
One of the Largest Yields on Record. 
Yields on experiment plots during the past season, with the Mapes Potato Manure, 
on many new and some old varieties at Rural Farm (E. S. Carman, ftoprietor), at River ' 
Edge, Bergen Co., N. J., are fully reported in the successive weekly numbers of the . 
“ Rural New Yorker,” during months of Sept.. Oct., Nov. and Dec., 1883. They include 
some of the largest yields on record, and challenge the closest scrutiny and criticism ' 
The yields are from 700 to 1140 bushels per acre. The yield 1140J bushels per acre, " the ’ 
greatest ever secured at the Rural Farm,” was of variety Corliss’ Matchless. Illustra¬ 
tion and description in “Rural New Yorker,” Dec. 8th., 1883. 
J. S. Allen, Broad Brook, Conn., ivrites Jan. 1st., 1884.—“ I have never had a failure ■ 
in my potato crop, since I have used the Mapes Potato Manure (four years since). 
“ Four bags per acre will give 'me a better crop of ipotatoes than 30 loads of barnyard 
manure. It gives better crops, and the effect seems to be as lasting.” . ; 
473 Bushels “ Early Rose” per acre. 
Send-postal for forthcoming pamphlet, containing reports from practical, well-known Truck, Fruit and Special Crop Crowers, Many of these growers use twenty tons' • 
and upwards of the Mapes manures in a season. Address 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO COMPANY, 158 Front Street, New York. 
The Mapes Orange Tree Manure— Supplied from New York, or Jacksonville, Fla. Send for Pamphlet. 
THE 
Singers’ Welcome. 
singing Clsss Book by h. O. Bmersoii, is 
having great success, is in every way a good book for 
thq teacher and learner, with the best of music, and 
improved elements. Has received decided praise from 
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(Continued from last month.) 
How Watch Cases are Made. 
The many great improvements intro¬ 
duced in the manufacture of the Jas. Boss’ 
Gold Watch Case, have led to similar im¬ 
provements in the making of silver cases. 
Under the old methods, each part of a 
silver case was made of se’^erai pieces of 
metal soldered together, re4uiring a great 
amount of cutting and soldering, which 
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of lead rather than the elasticity of silver. 
Under the improved methods, each'part 
of the Keystone Silver Watch Case is made 
of one solid piece of metal hammered into 
shape. The advantages are readily appar¬ 
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hardens the metal while soldering softens it. 
To test the superiority of the Keystone 
Silver Watch Case, take one of 3 oz. weight, 
press it squarely in the center when closed, 
and it will not give, while a case of same 
weight of any other make will give enough 
to break the crystal. The Keystone Silver 
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and gold joints. 
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James Boss’ and Keystone Watch Cases are made. 
9 
{To be continued.) 
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‘ The American 
The Amekioak Agriculturist, in an article headed 
Bubber Paint," writes ; 
Of late years several substitutes for the ordinarv Lead and Oil paint have 
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Directions, etc. 
