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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARCH 4 
J^ltwxrmt 5 
Remarkable Potato Yields from the Mapes Manures, 
“Talking about the jaws of death 1” ex¬ 
claimed a man who is living with his third 
scolding wife, “I tell you they are nothing to 
the jaws of life!” 
A little girl asked her sister what was 
chaos, that papa read about. The elder replied 
that it was “a great pile of nothing and no 
place to put it in. 
It is said that a pair of pretty eyes are the 
best mirror for a mau to shave by. Exactly 
so, and it is unquestionably the case that 
many a man has heen shaved by them. 
A lady had in her employ an excellent girl 
who had one fault. Her face was always in a 
smudge. Mrs.-tried to get her to wash 
her face without offending her, and at last re¬ 
sorted to a strategy. “Do you know,” Brid¬ 
get,” she remarked, It is said if you wash the 
face every day in hot soapy water it will 
make you beautiful.” “Will it, now?” an¬ 
swered the wily Bridget, “Sure it’s a won¬ 
der ye niver tried it yourself, ma’am!" 
A few evenings ago a little boy was busily 
engaged at his lessons. His father had gone 
to the lodge, and his mother was busy sewing. 
The little boy looked up and asked, “Mamma, 
what does the word ‘pretext’ mean?” “When 
your father says he has to go to the lodge two 
or three times a week, that is a pretext to get 
away from his family.” The boy did not say 
auything, but next day when he read out to a 
whole school his definition of pretext he created 
a sensation. __ 
'£tti,$ceU<uicou.$ gUvcrtising. 
Did She Die? 
No ; she lingered and suffered alone, pining away 
all the time for vent's, the doctors doing her no good, 
and at last was cured by this Hod Bitters the papers 
say so much about. Indeed ! Indeed! how thankful 
we should be for that medicine." 
Washington, d. C., May Wth, issu. 
Gentlemen— Having been a sufferer for a long tune 
from nervous prostration uud general debility, X ''as 
adv Ised to try Hop Bitters. I have tftkeu one bottle, 
and I have been rapidly pelting better ever since, and 
l think It the best medicine I ever used. I am now 
gaining strength and apnelite, which wa* all gone, 
uud I was in dr-spair until T tried your Bitters. I am 
now well, able to go about and do my own work. Be- 
f„re taking It. I was completely%g%ffgrpABT. 
BULL 4 WHIM, 
Little Falls, New Vork, 
Inventors and Mennfacturers of the latest’Approv. 
-■ “■'"‘‘HVWeTAflflijSESE , 
most successfully and obtaining the largest profit. 
New developments constantly coming out. Seed 
Com for Green Fodder or Silo. Send for our Illus¬ 
trated Catalogue of 52 pages. 
GS4 Bushels of Potatoes on less than one acre. 
Alfred Rose, Penn Yan, Yates County, N. Y., 
reports on Potatoes: 
“ Exlinius,” on one measured acre, 81 rows. After 
Potatoes were up, 1 rows entire were carried on by 
a flood, reducing the yield proportionately. 
10 cords barnyard ma- ,. ,, 
nure broadcast, 684 bushels from the 51 
200 lbs. Mapes Potato ms- rows i! rows short of an 
nure broadcast. acre). Quality very su- 
800 lbs. Mapes Potato In pertor, bright, smooth, 
the drill*. very large and uulfortu. 
200 lbs. Mapes Potato at 
hoeing. 
Alfred Rose, Penn Yan, N. Y., reports also on 
other varieties as follows: 
100 hills oi each, experimentally, same fertilizing 
as with the above. , ^ , 
“Invincible”.at rate of 960 bushels per acre. 
“Rocky Mountain Rose” " 918^ “ “ 
••Exlmlus”.. ‘ 846 
When the Mapes Potato Manure was omitted, the 
yield was decreased on the several varieties 2t» to 
220 bushels per acre. Mr. Rose writes: “There Is a 
great difference fin yield) in favor of the Mapes Po. 
tato Manure, also in finer quality and bmootkkb 
potatoes.” 
855 bushels potatoes on one acre (second 
application of the Mapes Potato Manure, 
when plants 5 inches high.) 
Fertilizer Drill Attachment lust out. Send for circu¬ 
lars to W. J. SPALDING, Lockport. »■ V. 
Hesbners’ Patent Level-Tread Horse-Powers- 
WITH PATENT SPEED 
REGULATOR. 
240 bushels potatoes per acre on balance 
of field (SO acres!—only tbe Mapes Ma¬ 
nure used on tbo entire piece. 
Dr. W. S. Comes, Freehold, Monmouth County, N. 
J.„ Oct. 6th. 1888. writes 
“ The potatoes (Mammoth Pearl) were planted from 
20th to 25th of April on ordinary clay soil, and were 
fertilized With the “ MAPES FdTATfc MANURE” at 
the rate of one-half tnu per acre. Nothing else was 
applied The Potato Manure was used one-hair (n the 
row a iuJ k(f broadmud. As near as I can estimate, 
the average yield was about 210 bushels per aero. I 
imvo one acre to which, when the plants were five 
Inches high, I applied another dressing of fertilizer 
and wor ked It In. This acre 1 had accurately 
tired and the potatoes from It weighed: t-be result 
was 855 l>uxhe!» on the acre. The field Is now sown 
with wheat—m> manure or fertiliser being used. 
See pamphlet for history of ten-nerc field, by Dr. 
W. S. Combs, since 1876. Crops (Potatoes, Corn, Oat« ) 
Wheat and Grass! laboblt increased. Wheat crop 
(1878) 200 bushels on 10 acres, Increased In 18S2 to 100 
bushels of wheat, same variety (Fultz) on same 
field of 10 acres, band in greatly improved condi- 
tion after heavy cropping during several suc¬ 
cessive seasons. Nothing but the Mapes Manures 
used. 
CROP OF POTATOES (“ EARLY ROSE 
NEARLY RUINED BY WIRE WORMS 
WHERE 40 LOADS PER ACRE OF 
STABLE MANURE WERE USED 
-YIELD 120 BUSHELS PER 
ACRE, AND ONE-HALF 
KIT FOR SALK. 
WITH 400 LBS. OF THE MAPES POTATO 
MANURE PER ACRE. CROP “NOT 
touchedbythe worms 
ENOUG li TO HURT”— 
YIELD AT RATE OF 450 
BUSHELS OF POTATOES. 
Henry Stewabt, Hackensack, Bergen County, N. 
J , writesAugust 2Sth, 1883. 
I have Just been digging some of mr Potatoes (Early 
Bose) anil send you Samples. The clean large one Is 
a fair specimen of some rows manured with The 
Mapes Potato it an u KB j 60 feet of row manured with 
ruirrcis ur 4iiu qiisucis » ■»*-■**• , j »•« • • - -— r v— 
Is a fair specimen of those grown with cow and hen 
manure yielding a barrel of fair potatoes to 800 teet 
of row, equal to i—p hu.helu per acre. A large 
quantity— quite a half of this part of the crop—was 
compJrtMp destroyed by wire worms, and not more 
than half those saved would be fit for sale. Not a 
potato, of those grown with the fertilizer alone, is 
Pouched”y the worms enough to hurt It. I used 10 
loads of manure to a quarter Of an acre and .i0 lbs. of 
the fertilizer to one-eighth of acre. 
Send postal for forthcoming pamphlet, containing reports from practical, well-known Truck, Fruit and m-eum. Ckot gromkrs. 
twenty tons und upwards of the Mapes Manures In a season. Address 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND PFRUVIAN GUANO COMPANY. 158 Front Stri ilJtoM . 
r ree. ooieowners oi ucvci-rrt wi 
infringements. Hcebner Ag Laosaale, Fa. 
REYNOLDS & LANG, 
ITHACA. N. Y., 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
STATIONARY & PORTABLE ENGINES, 
Portable Saw Mills, &c. 
Sesd for Descriptive Circ ular. _ 
The CHAMPION 
HAY AND GRAIN UNLOADER. 
Has no equal In capacity, adaptation or saving of 
time,labor, or expense. Hay, grain (boundor loose), 
mover seed, peas, beans, stalks ani L}yff , usfced corn, 
unloaded with equal ease and rapidity; 94 loads un¬ 
loaded In six hours. For descriptive circulars address 
BOARDMAN BROS., Sbortsville, N. Y. 
BURPEE’S 
ELCO 
•: OATS :• 
As claimed by «« la.t year, tbe WELCOME OATS have proved, beyond all 
doubt, to be the hear teat, hnndaomoat and moat productive variety ever 
introduced* To »•*■.*! tho t«ri*e* for tbe lvg«*t yield* and the belt head* wm *uch 
* Uimonlt tm*k. that it wa# ntoeaaary to esll uvou ir»u»e ili*lnicr«*ied .mJ 
known budget- Dm. Qmomow Editor or TA# American *£***%&*• 
a. a a * ___.. • a fbai ema r, tba I’oTnml Hdf ahd hf htl MOOf l it ^111 W 
•V/y'fev'. 
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known ^on«e«- U* 0 »o* IMF****, maawi yi if—3 i»k*L 
ktndtr coo*cated to aei u OilinBU of tbe Committee, and by bit report H *n\ be 
iefu ihM Ten and tkree-fouriiiA wtMUred buahwlfty T»*lf ulnj Four nun* 
dr yd und aeYent)r-ihrec and o*e>h*lf pooudijiJJ.4 lb*.), were waited 
IVoin one t irO'OUhf’C neukftge of the OaU, Tbit emoee* of ntcau Om 
m?i'l be ralM-ll from ounce or .e»d wool! oertaluly be beyond beUc f.were 
ll not on thcaworu statement «f * wetl-toowu men. wht>M word U 
—and that nibem In teflon* wotion* hat* nUo made gyUffg -w 
IMMENSE PKOIlCCriTEYENS of THE WELCOME OATS H ex 
plaiutd by their wonderful .tooling (often <10 to T5 eratae A»» Q *mp!o frotnl, 
the proof *<»« Of *«.>.!<. and tbe Aeunu « of tbe grain. Tbe aooompanytu* 
llluetratiou rvpreecnte a elacle eteol el li tiailt* (rows from one eeoL 
m tliri pnur HA TO rt* s tostset bljh, with etron*. itratjbl 
W hLLU ITI t U A I O etrae, well eupportln* the enormoua head*, 
and not pra.uatod by wind or ralu. The bead* are eery larwe. bianoblng freely on 
all eldoa, and from ridun to ficenep-lbree tticbe. Ii» lenjfb. Tbe jralu la remartabiy 
large and handsome, eery plump and full, with thin white, olo.«.fitting hu.be, 
ar.S welgn* 4T vo &1 4 pountle pur i*»caaur*rd buaheL 
^ «-t*KJ atlee tnestt. fcrerrou. eowlag <V- WELCOME OATS thl. ...awmoancer- 
tai 17 l<->i wa r! lb.. r am by all adie tL. » -lt*etf*e»4«»<HlV*A»- 
rletr In the World, ffceir uniform eueee.i tn erery part of the eonntry prore. tbelr 
general adaptability to ottr *xrlid climate, while their early maturity render* them 
special 1 r valuable. They rtpeu a wee* to two week, ahead of other Oat*, aud on tbl* ao- 
)fc eonnt yield aplemlld crop*. »Ten In the aitreute South. _ 
Ererr farmer aud Flamer will waut tbo WELCOME OATS, end tbo*e who purcba»« 
10 <thl* aee.on will be able to dla|r>*c of tholr entire orop for .«d, at high prior., 
tb nnl mm . )S Cent* per Packet: 75 Cent* per lb. ; 8 lb*, for |i.00, poetpaM. 
V PnlCiEh . Peek. 68.00 1 Buehel (32 lb* ) glO.OO. Each peck and bu*l^l 
bufi 1* * toured by our Leaden Seal and warranted to contain genuine WELCOME 
OATS, If the aeal U unbroken. Every puroba*er L ontltled to compete fur 
$600 IN CASH PRIZES ™ 
\Tedo»lre to a*cortft!n tbo heoYio«4 TieM ih»l c*o be produce*! from on» bunhel of EL- 
COMF. OATS'. t>eo tho^e who d«> not »lu * prlie will b« mor* than repaid fbr any extrw 
cultivation, by 5h«lncr^%4ed j ield and lb« high price* *ure to bwobtained for lbe»e oat*, for *eed 
eJAA for LARGEST YIFU>8 FUOM ONE BrSHKk.Jit PrlM* 
^ for the larg«*4t nuaotlt? raUvd from one buihr.l of »ecd, J»*l, l>4l a 
4tb, 5th and 6th Prlxea, ouch l&O ouaki Tth aud'^th Frlaca, each AH5* 
AIAA FOR LARGEST YIELDS FROM ONE PECK- let Prise, $5©S 
SbldCO «d, •«&| 8d, «80i 4th. #15 1 Gift, *10. 
fiOfi IN PREMIUMS FOR THE REST HEADS OF OATS, let PrUe, 
-HHlJ for the heavlo.l aud bet tlx bved*. *355 I 8d,*80: #d, Al-*! 4th and 6th 
rrl*e«, *10 tuck. 
The WELCOME OATS (evoept «mall lot* by mall), ere eou> o»t-v In *eufe<f bagi.ooa- 
talulug one peek (price, |3.a0), and mr huahel (prloe. lllMW). In eairb bag, 1. an Pfj 
, and circular uouinlnM. tell* 
tug all about T1J£ * 
— (lOMK €>ATS f with all the • 
^ Frl^e rcporia and many I 
^ te*timdnl*l«, iocetbee with (' 
»|pM* A»r .YCW 
rtl KKEOH 
eC tb« beat book of tbe kind 
publl«hed. fy«<i to cm- 
t.,n,c!<: to Athora. price 
10 c. Addreta plainly 
Warranted to Contain 
one bu3Hel(32 Lbs) 
ELCOME OATS 
IF>s EAL ISUNBROt!"' 
£600 IN PRIZES 
mi. 
10c. Adurvt* piainiy — 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. Phila.pa 
NEARLY HALF A MILLION ^ 
Were S 0 W 17 apd Plaqted iq I353,with\ 
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SEEDS and PLANTS 
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oerf^otLy "witli COLO WATER- Sufe to 
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Household, destroy* tilt bn daraelU. >oInfectious 
malady can cxi»t where this Dip Is employed as a 
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prices, send postage stamp to 
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piaNo^rjes 
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