NEW  YORK,  OCTOBER  29,  1892. 
PRICE,  FIVE  CENTS. 
$2.00  PER  YEAR. 
VOL.  LI.  No.  2231. 
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MAILED  FREE  BY  THE  MATES  COMPANY, 
No.  143  Liberty  Street,  New  York. 
Correspondence  especially  solicited  from  practical  growers  of  potatoes,  truck,  celery,  onions,  tomatoes, 
orchards,  strawberries,  grapes  (for  wine  or  market),  and  all  farm  crops. 
Write  us  fully,  stating  what  you  desire  to  grow,  character  of  soil,  rotation,  etc.,  and  we  will  mail 
to  you  pamphlets  and  circulars  that  will  help  you. 
We  have  now  ready  for  mailing : 
2.  Tobacco  Growing. 
Suggestions  for  more  successful  competition  against  Sumatra  wrap¬ 
per  leaf. — Remarkable  results  with  the  Mapes  Tobacco  Manure  in  Massa¬ 
chusetts,  Connecticut  and  Pennsylvania  in  producing  yield,  quality,  good 
burn,  high  finish,  etc.  2,400  pounds  Havana  leaf  per  acre,  on  an  average 
for  five  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  manures, 
cotton-seed  meal,  etc.  Highest  market  prices  obtained. 
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  manures 
used  on  the  corn  crop.  Farming  made  easier.  Poor  lands  brought  up  to 
high  fertility.  This  pamphlet  was  published  as  No.  3  of  Thk  Rural, 
Library.  Price  20  cents  per  copy.  It  will  be  mailed  free  of  charge  by  us 
to  all  applicants.  One  of  the  leading  Agricultural  Journals  has  ordered 
100  copies  of  this  book  and  writes  :  “  It  is  a  valuable  contribution  to  the 
restoration  of  fertility  on  our  Eastern  Farms.” 
New  edition  of  Chemicals  and  Clover  will  be  issued  in  January. 
The  AMERICAN  AGRICULTURIST,  February,  1892,  says:  “The 
Mapes  Tobacco  Manure  (Wrapper  Brand)  has  now  the  proud  distinction 
of  having  raised  the  crop  which  sold  at  the  highest  price  received  in  the 
Connecticut  Valley  last  year — 32  cents  per  pound  for  the  entire  yield. 
This  crop  was  grown  in  South  Deerfield,  Mass.,  and  84  per  cent  of  it  was 
suitable  for  wrapping  cigars,  which  accounts  for  the  high  price.  In 
many  other  cases  the  Mapes  Manure  has  been  used  with  similarly  good 
effect  on  Tobacco.  This  crop  is  a  most  delicate  feeder,  and  growers  who 
wish  to  secure  the  best  prices  should  by  all  means  study  Prof  Mapes’s 
illustrated  catalogues  and  pamphlets  describing  his  system  of  feeding  the 
tobacco  crop.” 
New  edition  of  Tobacco  Pamphlet  containing  testimony  of  Tobacco 
Packers  and  Buyers  will  be  issued  in  December  or  January. 
3.  Orange  and  Tropical  Fruit  Growing. 
Necessity  of  special  manuring  for  promoting  quality  and  quantity  of 
fruits — apart  from  vigorous  wood  growth. 
4.  Descriptive  Pamphlet. 
The  Mapes  Manures  and  How  to  Use  Them:  On  potatoes,  truck,  cabbage, 
cauliflower,  sugar  beets,  tomatoes  (for  canning),  onions,  celery,  rhubarb, 
egg  plants,  peas,  top-dressing  grass  or  lawns,  seeding  to  grass,  orchards, 
tobacco,  strawberries,  small  fruits,  grapes  and  general  farm  crops. 
5.  Chemicals  and  Clover. 
By  H.  W.  Collingwood,  of  The  Rural  New-Yorker,  an  account  of 
visits  to  farms  that  are  now  producing  double  the  crops  of  former  years 
6.  Needing  to  Grass. 
With  or  without  grass.  Top-dressing  old,  worn-out  meadows  and 
run-down  mowing  lands,  with  orwithout  stable  manure. 
MANURES  FOR  ANY  SPECIAL  SOIL  OR  CROP. 
The  official  analyses  of  the-  State  Experiment  Stations  show  the  Mapes  Manures  to  afford  a  wide 
range  in  proportions  of  leading  plant  food  ingredients,  so  that  from  our  brands  the  grower  may  select  a 
grade  suited  to  almost  any  want  :  Ammonia  from  3.00  to  7.64  per  cent,  Phosphoric  Acid  from  5.00  to 
14.66  per  cent  (nearly  all  soluble  and  available),  Potash  from  3.00  to  11.71  per  cent,  and  free  from 
Chlorine,  for  use  on  Tobacco,  Potatoes  and  Fruits.  All  the  materials  used  in  the  compounding  of  these 
manures  are  of  the  very  choicest  quality  and  of  the  highest  concentration.  The  aim  of  the  Mapes 
Company  is  to  give  the  greatest  variety  of  forms  and  at  the  same  time  to  use  none  but  the  very  best 
materials.  No  Rock,  Horn,  Leather,  Marl,  or  ANY  inferior  ingredients.  No  make-weights. 
HIGH  GRADE,  HIGH  ANALYSES. 
The  official  analyses  and  reports  of  the  State  Agricultural  Stations  of  Massachusetts,  Connecticut, 
New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania  and  other  States  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,”  made  during  the  past  year  in  Pennsylvania,  show  THE  MAPES 
POTATO  MANURE  to  be  the  Highest  Grade  of  all  Potato  Manures,  and  to  have  a  “comparative  commercial 
value  of  from  $10  to  over  $20  per  Ton  Higher  than  found  in  1 1  of  the  14  other  brands  of  Potato  Manures  analyzed.” 
At)dress  The  Mapes  Formula  and  Peruvian  Guano  Company,  143  Liberty  Street,  New  York. 
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