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STRENGTHENING OF THE SOIL AND GOOD GRASS CROPS. 
THE MAPES MANURES. TRUE MANURES-NOT STIMULANTS. 
LASTING EFFECTS ON GRASS, ETC. 
(Timothy (1837) Splendid growth.—Wheat (1886); Potatoes USSof.-Only the Mapes Potato 
(1,500 lbs. per Acre) Used in 1885.— Nothing Else Since.— Field 20 Acres. 
Dr .W. 8. COMBS. Freehold, Monmouth Co , N. J., whose experience with the Mapes 
Manures has been publisned in the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture Reports and the 
Agricultural Press, reports as follows, January, 1888 : v 
The twtntj-acre field in potatoes in 1885, wheat 1886, clover 1887, gave a heavy crop of red 
clover this year, particularly so for the first years cutting after wheat. The field was manured 
all over in 1885 with 1,500 lbs. of the Mapes Potato sfanure.' One half of the field “ ce^ved 
farm-yard manuie (with some marl compost) ordinary dressing, say 15 to 20 loads Yield as 
was reported before, was 385 bushels per acre on the ten acres that received the Mapes alone 
and 325 bushels per acre on the remaining ten acres manured with the Mapes and the farm 
manure. Hie wheat yield was 33 bushels per acre—no difference apparent in the two part® 
Timothy was seeded with the giain. Clover was sown in ihe Sprinpb'f 1886 The yield of 
clover hay this year, 1887, was 2>£ tons per acre. The past season V s * €i ’ ’ 
and only in a very few eases tor miles around was the grass crop g- 
was very poor. 
, ; ag*; 
During the past week a representative of a fertilizer company ed the field and was so 
impressed with the growth ot Timothy since cutting, that he ren> ^.f, “An onion bed would 
not have done better. I his field had been pastured (18 head on , £ es) for two months after 
cutting in June. A most interesting lact is that there is no ice of any improvement 
whatever in the grass on the half of the twenty-acre field where ^ farm manure was applied 
m addition to the Mapes Potato Manure in 188o. The ten acres?J? j received the Manes alone 
m 1885 produced just as good grass this year (1887) and prom? Equally well for 1888 I pro¬ 
pose to try on the portion that received the farm manure, tbifc* /some 300 bushels per acre of 
marl (green sand Squankum), to see if the increase in yield v A y a profit over Mapes alone 
The above experience related on the twenty-acre field, shewing the effects of the Mapes 
Potato Manure, applied in the Spring of 1885, on the wheat in 1886, and clover hav in 1837 is 
only one of several I have had since I have been using the Mapes Manures. ’ 
ery trying to grass 
As a rule, the grass 
Top Dressing* Grass Field of Seven Acres. 
Increased Yield of Hay 7 Tons, from Less than 300 lbs. per Acre of Top Dressing. 
VALENTINE FROST, P. O., Locust Valley, L. 1. (whese reports on the Mapes Man¬ 
ures on Oyster Bay Asparagus for some 12 years have appeared in our pamphlets), reports. Jan- 
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I top dressed a field of seven acres of grass that had been in grass four or five years The 
field was seeded to wheat in 1883 or ’84, with 100 ear loads of New York manure ccscintr $40 
per acre. The w heat turned out 25 bushels per acre. The succeeding grass was all Timothy. ^ 
Last Spring I applied as a top dressing, during the first week i£April,one ton of the Mapes 
Top Dressing Manure on seven acres, leaving one acre without any dressing. Tne effect of the 
fertilizer was very marked a few days after its application. The sail was moist, and the con¬ 
ditions for the action of the fertilizer were favorable. I could see where the application was 
made as far as I could see the lot. The increased yield of grass was the most satisfactory point. 
The seven acres yielded fully seven tons more hay, or an increase over the acre not dressed of 
ONE TON per acre. 
I have used your manures s^me 12 years or more, and have always had very satisfactory 
results. They are more effective than stable manure, and cost much less money. 
14 Tons of Extra Quality TIMOTHY HAY on Six Acres the Fourth Year after Potatoes 
(Followed with Wheat). 
RICBABp L. HUNT, Queens Co.. Lonir Island, N. \ , December 20, 1387, Reports : 
I took a six-acre field of heavy loam soil for a test of your manures on grass following 
wheat crop, and the result has been very good. 
In the Spring of 1883 I planted a field with Early potatoes with 1,000 lbs. of the Mapes 
Potato Manure to tne acre. The yield was over 200 bushels to the acre of very smooth, large 
potato* s. In September the field was sown to wheat with Timothy, with 1,000 lbs. of the 
Complete Manure, “A” Brand broadcast. Yield of wheat, 25 bushels to the acre. In 1885 it 
yielded 11 tons of mixed hay, clover and Timothy, of the first quality; in 1886, cut 12 tons, and 
iu 1887, it made 14 tons of clean Timothy. This fourth year cutting was the finest piece of 
Timothy hav I ever saw. I certainly never put a machine in a better field. Many who saw it 
remarked that it could not be better. 
Dr. UENRY STEWART, on The Mapes Manures: The followiug testimonial, in the 
New York Weekly Times, by Dr. Henry Stewart, Agricultural Editor, is on the permanent 
effects of the Mapes Manures. Dr. Stewart relates that he used three bags of the Mapes Potato 
Manure per acre, applied iu Spring, on three acres of the poorest worn-out land at Westwood, 
Bergen Co., N. J. (no manure or fertilizer of any kind having been used since), and produced 
six SUCCESSIVE CROPS (including potatoes, rye, Hungarian grass and sweet corn), conclud¬ 
ing as follows: “ There have thus been six crops taken from this field and a seventh is growing, 
and it is absolutely certain not one would have been grown without the fertilizer (applied on 
the potatoes).”— New York Times, July 15,1882. 
Dr. Stewart also writes: 
“ When a field is so poor that it will not grow clover, then good artificial fertilizers are the 
only resource. They soon put the farm in a condition to make large quantities ot manure.” 
By this. Dr. Stewart means that by the largely increased quantity of feeding crops, corn, roots, 
grain crops and grass (timothy, clover and Hungarian) that can be grown with the fertilizers, 
increased quantities of stock can be fed, and a larger manuro pile will be the result. 
DR. STEWART WRITES FEBRUARY H'Z, 18S»: 
“I am more than ever convinced of the value ol the Mapes system ol COMPLETE 
fertilizers” Send for Descriptive Pamphlet. 
THE MAPES FORMULA & PERUVIAN GUANO CO., 
158 Front St., N. Y. 
