THE MAPES SPECIAL 
MANURES 
FOR POTATOES, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, GRASS, TOP-DRESSING, ETC. 
CONCLUSIONS FROM PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE, IN SOME CASES OVER TEN YEARS, BY WELL KNOWN AUTHORITIES. 
“Our own experience with various commercial fertilizers has convinced us that 
with iudicious use of the Mapes Manures worn out lands can be restored to fer¬ 
tility quicker and with less expense, than in any other way "—American . 
Agriculturist. 
“While the Mapes Fertilizers are high in price, I have found by three years’ 
trial that they are very effective both in corn and potatoes. I know of none more 
so.”— Wilmer Atkinson, Farm Journal. 
“Under average conditions and in far the greater number of cases we do not 
hesitate to name the Mapes Potato Manure as the best and most profitable fer¬ 
tilizer for potatoes.”— American Agriculturist. 
“The Mapes Potato Manure is certainly as good a fertilizer for the Crops as we 
can expect to find.”—/. T. Lovett, Orchard and Garden. 
“Its action approaches certainty, or as near it as any manure can be expect¬ 
ed to do.— E. S. Carman, Rural New-Yorker. , , . o1 
The grower can select the manure that will supply Ammonia, Phosphoric Acid and Potash in al- 
most ANY DESIRED PROPORTIONS and all in tlie best VARIED FARMS. 
THE FOLLOWING BRANDS INCLUDE A RANGE OF t a f\(\ nont to 4*4 tier cent. 
Ammonia, from 7.50 per cent, to 2 per cent.-Phosphoric Acid, from 14.00 per cent, to 4 . per cent. 
Potash Soluble, from 11.00 per cent, to 2% per cent. 
Ammonia. Phosphoric Acid. Potash. 
__ 7 *n 4.50 10.50 
Mapes’Tobacco Manure, „ 7 00 6 00 
Mapes’ Complete Manure ‘for light soils, 10 00 3*00 
Mapes’ Complete Manure “ for heavy soils,’ 6.00 10.00 6 . 00 
SStf Fruit andTVin^Manure fg ™0 11.00 
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than^^lie'fifty^ati^ples’re^^tetr^lN^by^hM^tiUis’dinfag^lie^^styear—l&rt C *n < tlie^T < obMco° Pot^o^’and^Fruit^aniures the potash is practically free from OuJL’ 
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In addition to the usual tests, Prof. Cooke, the Vermont Inspector of Fertilizers, has taken 
steps in the right direction, viz: To determine the availability of the plant food contained in 
fertilizers sold in that State, and in his recent tests published iu bulletin No. 5, the Stockbndge 
Manures were found to contain the largest percentage of their nitrogen (ammonia) immediately 
available of any sold in the State, viz., 4.05 per cent., while the average of the other 29 brands 
sold in Vermont was only 2.02 per cent, available, or less than one-half the amount contained 
in the Stockbridge Fertilizers. When the weather and other conditions have been of a fair 
average, we think we can truly say that the Stockbridge Special Manures have also stood the 
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