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WHAT FARMERS SAY OF THE 
mapes spec ial cro p manures. 
Not a single complaint from the thousands of farmers who used them the past season, which in 
most sections was almost destructive of crops grown in ordinary ways. 
Some lar^e yields. Permanent Improvement of the land- Cheaper than purchased Stable Manure. 
Superior Quality of Crops. 
Tive Years' Rotation from a Single Application 
of the Mapes Potato Manure, 1,500 Pounds 
per Acre. 
DR. W. 8. COMBS, Freehold, N .7, December , 1877, reports: _ __ 
The experience (previously reported) on the twenty-acre field showing the effects 
of the Potato Manure (1,500 pounds per acre) applied in the spring of 1885 on Pota¬ 
toes (yield. 385 bushels per acre from the Mapes alone); 1886—wheat (no manure or 
fertilizer) 33 bushels per acre; 1887—clover hay, an unusually heavy crop (2 A tons 
—season extremely trying), is only one of several I have had since I Lave been using 
the AnotheT case'was on one of the poorest fields on my farm, where five years ago I 
■o-rew potatoes with the Mapes Potato Manure, 1,500 pounds per acr s-used alone and 
nothina used since. After potatoes, followed with wheat; then, instead ot seeding, 
plowed and planted corn! then oats, seeding with clover All ° the yields were 
vrond particularly that of corn, which was Seventy-five bushels (shelled) per acre. 
The clover this year (1887) was good, but not so good as on the other twenty acre 
field and naturally so, considering the seeding was with oats. . 
The growth of Timothy was very good and shows good improvement in the co 
dtti WUhou) tta’Mapes Potato Manure (1,500 pounds per acre) applied five years 
uo-o none of the crops named could have amounted to much. The good r ^ u ts on 
these crops and the present improved condition of the land must be credited to t c 
plant-food suppled in the Mapes Potato Manure in 1882, in excess of the portion used 
up Try the potato crop to which it was applied. 
14 Tons Timothy on 6 acres. Manured in 1883 
with the Mapes Manures; Nothing since, 
RICHARD L. HUNT , Ridgewood ( L. I.), N. Y., Dec. 29, 1887, writes: 
My -rass on six acres mowed SIXTEEN TWO-horse loads, 14 tons of first-class 
hay— -Timothy — I never put a machine in a finer piece. Every one who “ 
XS ac°rL b r e eS StffiSJtS&Sg. S-T £» of pS V ? y) 
proved Long Green). They made very rapid growth ; we could not P£ k ]£em a 
onmurh They were of uniform size, and very bright green color. At the factory 
whprTpart of them were delivered on contract they said “they never saw such pickles 
Id waited toSw how they were grown. [Note.] Mr. Hunt was formerly a large 
purchaser of N. Y. stable manure but has used nothing but the Mapes Complete an 
Special Crop Manure for nearly ten years and finds his farm steadily improvin 0 . 
DAVID KTJEIIN, Allentown, Pa., reports, Dec. , 1887. 
Fifteen hundred bushels of Potatoes on 3 3-16 acres and 495 bushels ( Invisibles> ) 
An nnp *icre Only 800 pounds of the Mapes Potato manure; use no farm manure i 
potatoes Have led comparatively little farm manure on our Truck farm for the las 
SEVEN YEARS and the more we use your diiterent (]^ P ] e X TJ r 4 o^NDITIoS ” an 
„„„ the LETTER CROPS we have and our land is in BE1IEK 
r and only COST US ABOUT ONE-HALF as much as buying stable rnanure. We 
hid the fiDest crop of STRAWBERRIES last year we ever had and land <hd “t 
iret any barn-yard manure for the last six-years; nothing but your COME LETE il 
URES foVfrJt. [Note]. Mr. Kuehn picked 12,727 boxes strawberries per acre the 
year previous 1886 
F. O. WARNER , Sutfield County , Conn., December 3, 1887, reports: 
“Yield of potatoes on heavy soil with unfavorable season 328 bushels of potatoes 
of excellent quality, free from scab or rot, on one and one-half acre. TheMapes 
Manures will produce better results under adverse circumstances than anything 1 
can use.” 
S. II. PANC0A8T, Sharpettown, N. J., November 3, 1887, reports: 
3 100 bushels from field of scam 12 acres; used 1,000 pounds of the Mapes Potato 
Manure ptr acre; on two-ihirds of the field eight loads of the barn-yard manure that 
was nothing but straw and stalks. The potatoes were smooth, and we were offered 
two to seven cents per bushel more than other potatoes sold in this section, hive 
acres yielded 1,500 bushels; balance came up badly—no buggy potatoes. 
ORANGE D. PELTY, Orient, L. I, N. Y, reports, January 8, 1888: 
1.040 bushels on 4K acres; cost of fertilizer, a little over $100, and proceeds of 
crop $650. 
JAMES M. SENN, Conyngham, Pa., writes, November 28, 1887. 
Where I use the Mapes Manures I am sure of a good crop. I have been testing 
other fertilizers, but have four d none yet that will come up to them I have used 
the mapes manures for about SEVENTEEN YEARS. I he first order “was for 1 WO 
BAGS and last year I used SIX TONS with good results. 
J. ROBERTS COMFORT, Wm. Penn, Pa., reports, December 12, 1887: 
450 bushels of potatoes on best acre (1887). 
D. G. CASE, Peconic, L. I., N. Y., December 12, 1887, reports: 
<‘Oats—seventy-six bushels of good, heavy oats withoutany fertilizer or anything, 
on land manured only with the Mapes Cabbage and Cauliflower Manure the year pre¬ 
vious. The yield of cauliflower, with 1,500 pounds per acre, was good, and they had 
nice heads.” 
LEROY BROWN, South Windsor, Conn., December 4, 1887, reports: 
410 bushels on one and one-quarter acre. Quality of crops first-class. 
R. F. SCHWARZ, Analominlc, Pa., December 15, 1887: 
On 8oil that had nothing but the Mapes Manures and boue for fifteen years and 
had been in sweet corn from 1879 to 1884 and in truck- in '84 and '85 and corn aganf 
in'86 and’87—yield, 24,000 good ears marketable on two acres. With same ferti¬ 
lizer, Mapes Corn Manure, 1,500 pounds per acre, has had 33,000 ears Green peas 
361 bushels on 1 % acres. Mr. Schwarz has stated in previous letters that I HE MAI ES 
Manures show beneficial effects for several years after being used. 
HENRY B. LANDIS, Lancaster, Penn Dec. 10, 1887 reports: 
Four hundred and fifty-seven bushels of potatoes (White Peerless) on acre. 
HENRY CHENEY, West Scarboro, Maine, Nov. 28, 1887 reports: 
Three hundred and twenty bushels of potatoes (Beauty of Hebron, Early Vermont, 
Early Rose) large, smooth tubers, per acre. I planted a small piece in another place 
on well-rotted stable manure and used ashes heavily, but the yield was not half as good 
and the potatoes were scabby in a short time after digging—they all rotted. 
HENRY S. HARRIS, Whig Lane, Salem Co., N. J., Dec. 12, 1887, reports: 
Three hundred and eighty-six bushels of potatoes (Silver Lake) per acre. Used 
800 pounds of the Mapes Potato and about three two-horse loads of barn yard manure. 
_ _ - taken bv the State Agricultural Stations dur- 
The Official Analyses (nearly one hundred samples aa , ain / ARGELY EXCEED THEIR PUBLISH- 
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