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The Mapes Special Crop Manures. 
FOR POTATOES, VEGETABLES* FRUITS CRASS, TOP-DRESSING, ETC. 
The Hapes’ Manures are the HIGHEST GRADE and BEST ever made. See OFFICIAL ANALYSES 
by the State Agricultural Stations, also COMPOSITION of the Mapes Manures, in pamphlet. 
The grower can select the manure that will supply Ammonia. Phosphoric Acid and Potash in al¬ 
most ANY DESIRED PROPORTIONS and all in the best VARIED FORMS. 
THE FOLLOWTN’GTBRA.ITDS INCLUDE A RANGE OP 
7.50 
4.50 
10.50 
6.00 
7.50 
6.00 ' 
6.00 
10.00 
3.00 
4.50 
8.00 
6.00 
2.00 
7.00 
11.00 
3.00 
14.00 
2.50 
Ammonia, from 7.50 per cent, to 2 per cent.—Phosphoric Acid, from 14.00 oer cent, to 4% ner cent 
Potash Soluble, from 11.00 ner cent, to 2^ ner cent. 
Mapes’ Tobacco Manure, _ „ 
Mapes’ Complete Manure “for light soils,’’ 
Mapes’ Complete Manure “ for heavy soils, 
Mapes’ Potato Manure 
Mapes’ Fruit and Vine Manure 
Mapes’ “A’’ Brand 
The above are minimum guaranties and are found to be invariably largely exceeded by the analyses of these manures by the Agricultural Stations,,; never more largely 
than in the fifty samples reported upon by the Stations during the past year—1888. In the Tobacco, Potato, and Fruit Manures the potash is practically free from Chlorine. 
CONCLUSIONS FROM PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE , IN SOME CASES OVER 1EN YEARS , BY WELL KNOWN AUTHORITIES. 
‘‘Under average conditions and in far the greater number of cases we do not ' ' L1 ' e ~ L -' 1 
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.”— J. T. Lovett , Orchard and Carden. 
“Its action approaches certainty, or as near it as any manure can be expect¬ 
ed to do.— E. S. Carman , Rural New-YorJcer. 
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‘Our own experience with various commercial fertilizers has convinced us that 
with judicious 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. 
RESULTS FOR 1888. 
2,587 IIIJH1I KliS OF POTATOES ON 12 ACRES. 
Mr, D. C. Lewis, of Cranbury, Middlesex Co., N. J., member of the New Jersey State 
Board of Agriculture, reports, October 18, 1888 : 
Our field of 12 acres yielded 2,587 bushels of potatoes; quality splendid, smooth, bright and 
of excellent cooking quality. One acre was dug for early potatoes when they were about half 
grown and allowing for this one acre, the remaining eleven acres yielded on an average 229 
bushels Tier acre The potatoes were of good size, with only a small proportion of small ones. 
We used nothing but 1,000 pounds per acre of the Mapes’ Potato Manure—one half drilled in 
with a grain-drill (through all the tubes), as a broadcast dressing—after harrowing and before 
planting and the balance in the rows, at planting, We may not realize a crop of potatoes every 
vear under this treatment, owing to varying seasons. This year our gross receipts will slightly 
exceed $100 per acre, but our real profit is found in our wheat and grass crops following pota¬ 
toes- for by using 300 pounds of the Mapes’ Complete Manure (for heavy soil) on the wheat (in 
the drill)’ we get 37 to 37 y, bushels of wheat per acre and two to two and one-half tons of hay 
per acre for two years, without any other application of fertilizer or farm manure. The plant 
food supplied by the 1,000 pounds of the Mapes’ Potato Manure in excess of the quantity con¬ 
sumed by the potato crop, remains in the soil and shows the effect on subsequent crops for sev¬ 
eral years. 
It ACRES OF POTATOES-2,750 BUSHELS. 
Du W. S. Combs, of Freehold, Monmouth Co., N. J., member of the New Jersey’VS tato 
Board of Agriculture, reports, October 5, 1888, ou his potato crop asTollows: 
Variety: “ Rural Blush;” planted latter part of April; rows three feet apart, about 15 
inches apart in the rows; seed-pieces cut to one andj two eyes. Fertilizer: i The Mapes’ Potato 
Manure 1 500 pounds per acre. 500 pounds were applied by the grain-drill before furrowing— 
as a sort of broadcast dressing; then 500 pounds applied at planting under the potatoes m the 
row This was also done with the grain drill (by tying the tubes together so as to pay out only 
in the rows), and the last 500 pounds applied when the vines were five or six inches high, at cul¬ 
tivating This application was also made with the grain-drill, tying the rubber tubes together 
so as to pay out on either side of each row.. All three applications were made with the grain- 
drili- no hand labor in applying the fertilizer; no other fertilizer or manure was used—in fact, 
this piece of eleven acres had received no farm manure for many years—probably thirty years. 
In the past 13 years it has received mainly the Mapes’ Potato Manure. The variety planted, 
“ Rural Blush'” was affected in a very curious way during the past season in our section. In 
every row without, I think, au exception in my case, across the field at frequent intervals there 
were a number of consecutive vines, from two to six, that seemed to be dwarfed or stunted in 
their early growth, and never recovered throughout the season. If this had occurred iu patches, 
it might have been attributed to defective seed, uneven character of soil, or some action of the 
fertilizer but occurring, as it did, throughout each row at intervals, I am eutirely unable to 
account for it, and am forced to leave it to be classed with the mysteries of potato growing in 
1888 This trouble was more or less general in our section. The yield in my piece of 11 acres 
was considerably reduced by this blight—probably to the extent of 20 per cent.. The past sea¬ 
son with us could not be considered a good one for potatoes. 
Yield on 11 acres was 2,750 bushels, an average of 250 bushels per acre; quality, very good, 
tubers bright and smooth, and both the yield and the quality were very satisfactory, pirticu 
larly for the season. 
This field had been croppedin the usual rotation—potatoes, wheat, grass and corn—for many 
years, and, as I stated before, had received only the Mapes’ Manure for 13 years. No farm 
manure had been applied during the past 13 years or for many years previous. 
This piece, as well as others on my farm, has produced crops (the usual potatoes, wheat, 
grass and corn), more than double the size as compared with those of 15 years ago, before the 
Mapes’ Manure was applied. This field, as well as the rest of my farm, has steadily improved 
in strength since I commenced using the Mapes’ Manures in liberal quantities, and the profits 
have also increased. 
Cabbages (Early Wakefield Flat Dutch), Etc. 
Cabbages.— Early Wakefield. Flat Dutch. Out of 151),(MX) plants there wore not over 1,000 
that were not cut and not more than 1,500 culls. 1,500 to 2,000 pounds per acre of the Mapes’ 
Cabbage Manure used, one-half broadcast, balance at first hoeing. 
Celery —10 acres; set out without any manure or fertilizer, after Spinach, Lettuce and 
Early Cauliflower, grown with 1,500 to 2,000 pounds per acre of the Mapes’ Vegetable Manure; 
no farm or stable manure used. The crop of 10 acres of Celerv pronounced “one of the finest 
in the county.” Vreeland & Co., Greenville, Hudson Co., N. J. 
Asparagus.— Some 20 acres. Several prize crops, including 1838, grown by Valentine Fro*t, 
South Oyster Bay Section. Has used only thejMapes’ Vegetable Manure for rnauy years, on 
uew and old beds. 
Enormous Yield on One-Eighth oi an Acre and on One Acre. 
128 1-4 Bushels Potatoes, flose^s Beauties and J\~o. 74, on One-JBifhth of an Acre , 
JKt/ual to the Hate of 1026 Bushels Per Acre; ltuf and Measured in Presence of I fitnesses. 
Grown by Alfred Rose, Penn Yan N. Y., with 1,000 pounds per acre of the Mapes’ Potato Manure. 
Also 500 Bushels on One Acre of Potatoes (14 varieties), with same fertilizer in same quantity. 
“Crop,” as stated by Mr. Rose, “was shortened one-half "by a terrible drought that lasted 72 
days.” These crops were grown by Mr. Rose’s trench system. Mr. Rose advises “Potato 
Growers to use the Mapes’Manure.” For full detailed report on these crops by Mr. Rise, see 
the Mapes’ pamphlet for 1889. Mr. Rose will wager $000 to $500 with any one that ha caugro v 
at the rate of 1,000 bushels per acre with his Trench System, with hilling. 
Rural Potato Contest, 1886. 
Pot aloes. Variety JYo. 2. Croton tcilh the Jl,tapes * Potato Jtlanure , 1769 Pounds Per 
Acre , by the It If It AC Trenh System , Plat Culture, at the Kol« «fl07( Bushels Per Acre. 
Yield of variety No. 4, same ferfciliter and same method, at rate of 644 Bushels Per Acre. 
Quality of both kinds very superior. For full report of Julges, etc , see columas of Rural 
New-Yorker. 
SCIENCE APPLIED TO PLANT FEEDING. 
Prof C A Goessman, Director of the Massachusetts State Experiment Station, stated in 
address before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society on “ Rational Fertilization of 
an 
Crops 
• To manure our lands efficiently means to-day something more than to give the soil an 
execution ally liberal amount of some incidental refuse matter of an ill-defined composition, as 
barn vard manure, vegetable compost, or wood ashes.” We have good reason to believe that 
not onlv the particular form in which we apply the various articles of plant food, but also 
the ^articular association and relative proportion in which they may be applied, under cor- 
resDonding conditions of season and soil, iu many instances control the commercial value of 
Aiircmns 6 We begin to discriminate between muriate of potash and cqiphate of potash. We 
know that a hberaUmpply of "nitrogen and potash, in the* absence of Corresponding propor¬ 
tion of phosphoric acid, tends to retard the maturing of some crops, < is not less recognized 
that sulphate of litne and sulphate of magnesia favor iu an exceptional degree the growth of 
loaves. Again, that the essential plant constituents are uot needed in different plants in the 
same corresponding proportion at the various successive stages of growth but are wanted at 
different stages of growth in different absolute and relative proportions. Each plant has its 
own wants at different stages of its development.” 
The above statements made by Prof. Goessman helps to make it plain why the early 
attempts, particularly by chemists, to prepare special crop manure failed. They ignored the 
characteristic features and practical demands of crops. They were content in prescribing 
formulas for different crops, to combine merely the requisite number of pounds of nitrogen, 
phosphoric acid aud potash in soluble forms that the increased product desired was estimated 
to require. It would be equally rational to feed an animal on the basis of composition of its 
carcass. 
,hey will get what they 
Aowu by the analyses of 
The Rural New-Yorker, March 15,1884, states: 
Those who purchase the Mapes’ manures may feel confident thf 
buy. There is no firm with a better record, as bas been repeated! 
the several experiment stations. 
Importance of Dealing only with Reliable ^w uses. 
Prof Johnson states that it is not always practicable in 'o analysis of a commercial 
fertilizer to distinguish some of the best from some of the poorest^ fins of the ingredients; for 
instance, au analysis may not determine whether the nitrogen u a fertilizer is derived from 
blood or animal matter, or from leather or shoddy.— Rueal Nfj* Y orker, May 24, 1884. 
Improved Condition of Land alter using the Mo.pen’ Manures. 
Hundreds of farmers and truck-growers after using the Mapes’ Manures for a series of 
vears (in some cases fifteen years), report their farms in better condition and their crops 
MUCH larger (in some cases double) AS compared with the methods of MaNURiNG previ¬ 
ously practiced. 
Nothing Can Beat the Mapes’ Manures. 
In the many experiments at Experiment Farms, Agricultural Stations aud by Home Mixers 
to boat the Mapes’ Potato Manure by mixtures of Chemicals, Superphosphate, Fish Guauo, etc., 
have failed The Mapes Manures have become the standard by which to make comparison with 
other fertilizers in nearly all competitive tests, or attempts to beat the record (See Reports in 
the Mapes’ Pamphlet). 
TOBACCO-WRAPPERS. 
Rome of the crops grown in 1888 that have been sold at the highest prices known this 
and been pronounced superior in every quality for wrappers, have been grown ex 
cl nsivELY withtho Mapes’ Tobacco Manure, Wrapper Brand. For particulars see forthcoming 
Mapes Pamphlet for 1889 no charge. 
No Inferior Materials in the Mapes’ Manures. 
Wk note that the Mapes’ Company state in plain terms that the basis of their manures is 
bone and that they use uo South Carolina rock, phosphate rock of any kind, or any inferior 
material-,. They offer to forfeit $10,000 to any one who will prove that they have ever used 
any phosphate rock in any of their complete or special crop manures.— Rural New Yorker, 
Feb. 11, 1888. 
Credit and Liberal Inducements Necessary to 8cil Low-Grade Goods. 
The Connecticut Farmer (May, 1887), in discussing the evils of the credit system, states : 
“ The cash purchaser is wronged, unavoidably so, by having to share the burden of these 
credits. Because the Mapes’ Company, more than any other in The field, refuse to burden 
themselves with such credits, they are able, and perhaps only on this account, to bring the 
Agricultural Experiment State Stations' Analyses figures of cost and valuation 
so near together.” 
Shipments to Consumers at Distant Points > 
Distance from New York need uot deter auy oue from usiag the Mapes’ Minuros. 
These 
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Man ures, owing to their high concentration, are specially adapted for long shipments at 
cost. Tne freight on these manures is only one-third to one-half as compared with 
COST OF ORDINARY FERTILIZERS FOR SAME QUANTITY OF PLaNT FOOD. 
Consumers desiring to use the Mapes’ Manures, by writing to us, stating brand and quantity 
wanted, can obtain quotations per ton delivered at their railroad station. Correspond- 
° nC °Th( 3 se'Manures are largely used in the Western and Southern States by Growers of Truck, 
Fruit, Potatoes,.Onious, Tomatoes, Grapes, Tobacco aud general crops. 
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