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MAPES COMPLETE MANURES 
SPECIAL CROP MANURES. 
ARRIVED IN NEW YORK AUG. 25. UNDER CUSTOM VALUATION, THIS STOCK 
WAS 
TIIE HORSES WERE AT ONCE SHIPPED BY A 
Special Train of 30 Cars 
Remarkably LARGE and PROFITABLE crops grown 
during the past season, without stable manure and 
with ordinary field culture. Season 1880, 
CORN— 63 , 106 , 125 , 134 and 159 Bushels shelled Corn per acre, on poor and ordinary lands For full reports, 
cost tier bushel, etc., see pamphlet, pages 5, 6, 7. Also Rural New-Yorker. Corn Number, Jan. 
ist, 1SS1, pages 1. 2, 3. 
These unprecedented crops are established beyond all doubt, by the testimony of many well-known 
farmers and agriculturists, including the following, who have examined the crops during the harvesting, 
and have made reports on the same : 
Prof. A. B. Ledoux, Director N. C. State Agricultural Station. 
L. C. Benedict, Agricultural Editor of the New York World (Weekly). 
Dr. W m. M. Habbrshaw, Chemist N. Y. Slate Agricultural Society. 
Hknrv Stewart, Agricultural Editor of the New York Times (Weekly). 
Robt. Dodge, Pres. Farmers’ Club of the Am. Institute. New York. 
E. Williams, Secretary New Jersey State Horticultural Society. 
Dr. F. M. IIexamer, Editor of the American Garden. 
Mr. Bruggekhoff, of Thorburn & Co., New York. 
See extracts from the Rusal New-Yorker, New York World, New York Tribune, New York Times 
American Garden, Commercial World, etc., in pamphlet, pages - - - - - 1104. 
POTATOES—200, 300 and 400 bushels Potatoes per acre, see pamphlet, pages 
SUGAR BEETS, 37,600 pounds per acre, see pamphlet, page - 
The above crops were all grown EXCLUSIVELY with the Mapes Special Crop Manures, 
1,180 1-2 bushels Wheat on 36 acres, Average about 33 bushels per 
acre. On 19 acres, average 40 bushels per acre. 
Report 0/ IT'. S. COMBS, Freehold, N.J., 0713b acres 0/ Wheat, grown with the Mapes Complete Manure 
for Heavy Soils.—April lb, tSSt. 
Acres sown 36. nineteen of which was stubble and seventeen stiff timothy sod ; variety sown, Fultz , 
about two bushels per acre ; soil a pretty stiff clay. 
Treatment.— 30 acres, 500 lbs. per acre of the Mapes Complete Manure for heavy soils alone, 6 acres 
dressed with Stable Manure, about ten loads to the acre, and 560 lbs. of the same Complete Manure for 
Heavy S .ils. 
Result .. 1,180 bushels and 37 lbs. of Wheat, and 4s tons of Straw when pressed. The quality of the 
wheal was good, weighing 6-2 lbs. to the measured bushel. The weather during and tor weeks alter sowing, 
was so exceedingly dry that the eraiu sown on the sod piece did not come up as evenlv as that on the stubble, 
and ns a result the yield from this piece reduced the average yield considerably. The yield from the 19 
acres uf stubble was (estimated, the two plots not being separated) 40 bushels per acre! The grain from 
the t,\o pieces w as harvested together, and when thresned Was accurately measured and weighed. (i,t8o 
bushels and 37 lbs. from the 36 acres, average 33 bushels per acre.) ' ; 
Ab»ut three weeks before harvest the army worm entered the field and marched directly across it 
stripping the leaves front the stalks and cutting off the smaller heads. They did considerable damage, 
just how much am unable to sav. 
Have sowed the whole 36 acres again with wheat, without the application of any manure or fertilizer. 
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