VOL.  LI.  No.  2191. 
NEW  YORK,  JANUARY  23,  1892. 
PRICE,  FIVE  CENTS 
$2.00  PER  YEAR. 
PAMPHLETS  SENT  FREE  BY  THE  MAPES  COMPANY. 
1.  Potato  Growing. 
AMERICAN  AGRICULTURIST  GREAT  PRIZE  CROP  CONTEST.  Potatoes, 
Corn,  Wheat,  Oats.  How  the  two  largest  crops  of  potatoes  ever  grown  with  fer¬ 
tilizers  or  manure,  (847  and  745  bushels  per  acre)  were  raised  with  the  MAPES  POTATO  MANURE  exclusively.  Over  6,100 
bushels  of  potatoes  on  a  20-acre  field  at  Freehold,  New  Jersey,  Season  1890.  This  field,  “was  formerly  the  poorest  on  the 
farm  ;  rarely,  in  former  years,  did  this  farm,  with  farm  manure,  bone  and  marl,  and  under  favorable  conditions,  produce  20 
bushels  of  wheat  or  40  to  50  barrels  of  potatoes  per  acre.”  Since  the  commencement  of  the  use  of  the  MAPES  MANURES, 
some  15  years  ago,  the  land  has  become  so  much  improved  that  the  crops  for  six  years  and  over  have  averaged  NEARLY 
DOUBLE  those  of  former  years.  Other  farms  brought  up  from  poor  to  good  condition,  and  with  profit  from  the  start  by  the 
MAPES  SYSTEM  of  manuring  on  a  5-year  rotation  :  One  ton  per  acre  of  the  MAPES  POTATO  MANURE  011  potatoes  ;  suc¬ 
ceeding  crops,  wheat,  grass  (2  years  or  more).  Corn,  with  little  or  no  additional  fertilizer.  Full  details  given. 
Suggestions  for  more  successful  competition  against  Sumatra  wrapper  leaf. 
•  — Remarkable  results  with  the  MAPES  TOBACCO  MANURE  in  Massachusetts, 
Connecticut  and  Pennsylvania  in  producing  Yield,  Quality,  Good  burn,  High  finish,  etc.  2,400  pounds  Havana  Leaf  per  acre, 
on  an  average  for  5  years  in  Connecticut  by  an  old  user  of  the  MAPES  MANURE.  Colored  Photographs  of  Havana  Leaf  (crop 
1891)  grown  exclusively  with  the  MAPES  TOBACCO  MANURE  showing  FINE  TEXTURE,  FINISH  and  HIGH  VALUE 
for  wrappers  as  compared  with  crops  grown  with  stable  manure,  cotton-seed  meal,  etc.  Highest  market  prices  obtained. 
(From  the  New  England  Homestead,  Springfield,  Mass.,  the  official  organ  of  the  New  England  Tobacco  Growers’  Association,  January  2,  1892.) 
THE  MAI’KS  TOBACCO  MANURE,  WRAPPER  BRAND.— The  wonderful  success  with  which  the  fertilizer  of  the  above  name  has  long  been  employed  in  the  Connecticut  Valley, 
has  led  to  a  much  more  extended  use  of  it  from  year  to  year.  During  the  coming  year  it  will  be  used  more  liberally  than  ever.  At  one  place  where  tobacco  grown  on  the  Mapes  Manure  sold  at  28 
to  30  cents  per  pound  for  the  1891  crop,  six  times  the  quantity  of  this  fertilizer  has  already  been  ordered  for  1892  that  was  used  last  year,  and  the  market  has  not  yet  opened.  This  and  the 
beautiful  quality  of  the  leaf  grown  on  the  Mapes  Manure  in  the  past,  as  shown  by  the  high  prices  such  leaf  has  sold  for,  make  it  unneceessary  for  The  Homestead  to  add  its  indorsement  of  these 
goods.  The  Mapes  Formula  and  Peruvian  Guano  Company  have  always  aimed  at  putting  out  goods  of  the  best  quality  rather  than  attempting  to  do  a  more  extended  business,  and  are  now  reaping  their 
reward.  The  most  Ignorant  tobacco  grower  knows  that  this  crop  requires  plant  food  of  the  best  kind  and  quality  in  order  to  secure  the  best  results.  He  knows  also  that  no  fertilizer  surpasses  the 
Mapes  wrapper  brand  in  this  respect.  It  may  cost  a  little  more  per  ton,  but  Is  well  worth  it. 
2.  Tobacco  Growing 
3  0-m  n  r rpk  onrl  "p-ri  1  if-  C A  t'TlTAT’in  C r  Necessity  of  SPECIAL  manuring  for  promoting  QUALITY 
•  WlctllgC  ctliU  X  1U11  UlUWlllg.  and  QUANTITY  of  fruits. -Oranges,  Grapes,  Small  Fruits, 
apart  from  vigorous  wood  growth. 
(From  The  American  Garden.) 
Carefully  compounded  manures,  like  the  Mapes,  which  contain  large  proportions  of  potash  and  phosphoric  acid,  with  these  and  the  nitrogenous  portions  in  THE  BEST  forms  for  the  use  of 
plants,  make  fruit  trees  and  fruit  vines  which  are  strong  and  well  developed  in  all  their  parts,  just  as  proper  food  builds  a  man  or  horse  as  he  should  be.  Mr.  Mapes  emphasizes  the  fact  that  rapid 
growth  does  not  mean  FRUITING  POWER;  that  the  FORCING  manures  WEAKEN  RATHER  THAN  STRENGTHEN  the  productive  faculties  of  fruit  plants,  and  also  IMPAIR  THEIR 
STRENGTH  to  resist  disease,  insects  and  bad  weather. 
Pamnhlet  THE  MAPES  MANURES  and  HOW  TO  USE  THEM:  On  Truck, 
X  cXlli  JJlllvZs  L.  Cabbage,  Cauliflower,  Sugar  Beets,  Tomatoes  (for  canning)  ;  Onions, 
Celery,  Rhubarb,  Top-dressing  Grass  or  Lawns,  Seeding  to  Grass,  Orchards,  Tobacco,  Small  Fruits,  Grapes  and  General  Farm 
Crops.  This  is  our  general  pamphlet  covering  all  crops. 
5^"*^ l-%  py *-v-i 1  q*  1  ptr  »«  ( Now  in  I  less.)  By  II.  V\  .  Collingwood,  Managing  Editor  of  I  he 
•  UllCllliLalO  dllXI  UlUVCi  .  Rural  New-Yorker,  an  account  of  visits  to  farms  that  are  now  pro¬ 
ducing  double  the  crops  of  former  years  before  the  MAPES  HIGH-GRADE  MANURES  were  used.  No  live  stock  kept  except 
horses,  cows  and  pigs,  for  farm  work  and  family  use.  All  farm  manure  used  on  the  corn  crop.  Farming  made  easier.  Poor 
lands  brought  up  to  high  fertility  and  rich  profit. 
The  official  analyses  and  reports  of  the  State  Agricultural  Stations  of  Massachusetts,  Connecticut,  New  Jersey,  Pennsyl¬ 
vania  and  other  States  for  the  present  year,  1891,  show  the  HIGH  STANDARD  OF  THE  MAPES  MANURES  TO  BE 
FULLY  MAINTAINED. 
The  Official  Annual  Report  to  January  1,  1892,  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  containing  all  the  analyses 
of  “Complete  Manures,”  analyzed  during  the  past  year  in  Pennsylvania,  show  THE  MAPES  POTATO  MANURE  to  be  the 
HIGHEST  GRADE  of  all  the  Potato  Manures,  and  have  a  “comparative  commercial  value”  from  TEN  TO  OVER  TWENTY 
DOLLARS  PER  TON  HIGHER  than  found  in  ELEVEN  of  the  FOURTEEN  other  brands  of  Potato  Manures  analyzed. 
I  !  Arrangements  have  been  perfected  whereby  users  of  fertilizers,  even  in  sections  where  the  MAPES  MANURES  are  not 
I  !  for  sale  by  local  dealers,  can  procure  these  manures  in  ANY  QUANTITY  (one  bag  and  upwards)  at  reasonable  rates. 
I;;;  ISF®  Correspondence  Solicited. 
:  The  Mapes  Formula  and  Peruvian  Guano  Go.,  1 43  Liberty  St.,  New  York. 
