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From the American Agriculturist, March 30, 1895. 
THE MAPES FERTILIZERS have long been recognized as the standard in quality. Prof. Mapes, like his father before him, has been a leader in developing 
the manufacture of fertilizers of the highest grade. He believes that the best fertilizers are the cheapest, and demonstrates this by the analyses of his goods, not only 
for the present year, but for a long series of years. In every case the Mapes fertilizers are found to contain even more actual plant food than is stated in their 
guarantee, so that they can always be depended upon to give value received. As to their crop producing power and the profit that follows the use of the Mape s 
manures, thousands of farmers testify in the most emphatic manner. Their results will be found in the pamphlets which will be sent free. These books contain an 
immense fund of practical and valuable information on the whole subject of fertility, and can be consulted to advantage by every farmer. Prof. Mapes has long been 
careful to employ not only the best materials in making the Mapes manures, but to supply the nitrogen particularly in various forms, so as not only to give the crop 
a good start, but back it up as the season advances. The importance of this matter is emphasized by the article on page (5 of this issue of the American Agriculturist, 
on the crop-producing power of nitrogen in different forms. It will be noticed that the difference between average cost and chemists valuation of the Mapes goods is 
ONLY HALF AS MUCH AS WITH THE ORDINARY FERTILIZERS. 
From the American Cultivator, March 23 and 30, 1895. 
THE MAPES CORN MANURE.—The Mapes manures, whether for corn, potatoes, grass or fruit, contain superior forms of plant food. The Mapes Corn 
re excels all the leading competitors in the reports of the Connecticut State Agricultural Experiment Station for 1894 and 1895. The important ingredients of 
fertilizers are soluble and efficient. They act quickly and give good value received for the cost. The phosphoric acid, for instance, is derived from bone and 
ian guano, the most costly, yet the most soluble substances. The farmer can afford to use such fertilizers, however hard the times may be. 
High Standing of Mapes Manures at the State Agricultural Stations. 
The State agricultural experiment stations are performing a most valuable work in their determination of the value and availability of factory manures) 
superphosphates and commercial fertilizers. These stations are the farmers’ insurance and guarantee against fraud, deceit, misrepresentation and over valuation. 
No one of these stations stands higher than the Connecticut Station, under the veteran scientist, Prof. Johnson. The Connecticut Station Report for 1895 contains, 
page 59, the following on “ Home Mixtures” : The average cost per ton of the seven home mixtures, including cost of mixing, is $36.76. The average valuation is 
$31.70 per ton, and the percentage of difference between cost and valuation is 16 per cent. In factory mixed fertilizers this percentage difference has been on the 
average, 41.3 for nitrogenous superphosphates and 33.2 fur special manures during the last season. The average valuation of these home mixtures is therefore very 
much nearer their cost price than is the case with factory mixed goods. The following summary is given : 
Number of Average Average Percentage 
Brands. Cost. Valuation. Difference. 
Home mixtures. 7 $36.76 31.71 16.0 
Mapes superphosphates. 3 35.66 29.36 19.8 
Mapes specials. 7 40.35 33.50 20.6 
All special manures. 60 38.12 28.62 33.2 
All superphosphates. 53 32.93 23.30 41.3 
It will readily be seen from the above summary of the figures in the Connecticut Station Reports for 1895 that the Mapes brands are not only much cheaper to 
the farmer than the other manufactured fertilizers, and have been found by the station to have a much higher valuation as compared to the cost to the farmer, but 
approach very closely to the figures given by the station to the home mixtures—mere crude mixtures of raw materials. 
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FARM TOPICS. 
Irrigating with the Plow. 
A Discussion of Mole Traps.239, 
Home Mixing of Fertilizer. 
A Veteran Potato Grower Talks.240, 
Are Potatoes Potatoes ?... 
A “ New Carman Potato". 
Treating Potatoes for Scab; Weeders. 
Rolling Land for Potatoes. 
What Part of Corn Ears for Seed ?. 
Brazilian Flour Corn for Fodder. 
Cotton-Seed meal for Feeding and Fertilizing . 
Something More About Plaster.242, 
What Chemicals with Manure ?. 
What to Do with a Dead Horse. 
Use of Salt and Fish Heads. 
Bliss Triumph Potato. 
Payment for Skilled Farm Labor. 
Crimson Beat Zero in Ohio. 
A Home Mixer in Maryland.244, 
Crimson Clover in New York State. 
A Dandelion Farmer. 
Balanced Plant Food. Part VIII. 
A New England Swamp “Gone to Grass”. 
Selecting Potato Vines for Seed. 
Treatment for Diseased Seed. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Day Among the Ducks. Concluded.237, 
Soiling and Partial Soiling of Cows. 
A Cement Hen Fountain. 
The Milk Question. 
The Norman Breed of Cattle. 
Training Little Colts. 
Saving the Cows. 
Hard to Beat. 
Saving the Pigs. 
“ Chaff in the Cow’s Eye ”. 
Killing Sheep Ticks. 
Flies on Stock. 
A Successful Poultry Girl. 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Honest Apple Testimony. 
Some Notes on Japan Plums. 
The Black Paris Muskmelon. 
Strawberries and Crimson Clover for New 
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A Treatment for Pear Blight. 
Lawn Grasses, Dwarf Pears, Etc. 
Unknown Apples ; Phosphoric Acid, Etc. 
What is a Seedling Fruit ?. 
A White Mold on Carrots. 
The Rust of the Quince. 
Treatment for Unthrifty Evergreens. 
Is There a Cure for Plant Lice ?. 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials. 
Spring Housework. 
Farmer Grey’s Change of Heart. 
The Stay-at-Home Rut. 
Bonnets and Bangs.248, 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers. 
Pen Potpourri. 
When Are We at Our Best ?. 
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