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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
DEC i4 
THE MAPES COMPLETE MANURES. 
-PREPARED SPECIALLY FOR- 
Potatoes, Early Truck, Corn, Orchards and Vineyards (also for Improvement of Quality of Fruit), Grain Crops, Grass Top-Dressing, Small Fruits, 
Tobacco, Orange and Truck Growing in Florida, Pineapples and other Tropical Fruits, Etc. 
These Fertilizers are True Manures, Not Stimulants. 
The official State Agricultural Station Reports show the Mapes Manures to be 
THE HIGHEST GRADE MADE AHD THE CHEAPEST TO THE FARMER. 
They Contain the Largest Quantity of Soluble Plant Food as Compared with Cost. 
Prof. George H. Cook, of the New Jersey Experiment Station, reports, in a late bulletin, what the R. N.-Y. has so persistently endeavored to impress upon its readers. 
As a rule, he says, the fertilizer which contains the greatest amounts of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash is the cheapest; for the cost of manufacture, freightage and rate of 
commission are the same for high-grade as for low-grade fertilizers, and the labor on the part of the farmer is increased as the grade of the goods decreases. 
The R. N.-l. confidently anticipates the time when there will be no demand whatever for low-grade fertilizers.— Rural New-Yorker, Aug. 24th, 1889. 
Farms Crowing Steadily Richer, and Profits Increasing from the Long-Continued Use of the Mapes Manures. 
NO EXHAUSTION IN ANY CASE. 
“Jersey Farms Tlaat Fay .’ 7 
The Rural New-Yorker, June 22d, 1889, states : “ And while on this subject the R. N.-Y is led to refer to a farming community it has just visited. This community is in 
New Jersey, within 50 miles of New York. The cheap lands of the West will so flood Easter markets with staple products that New Jersey farmers will have to become 
gardeners or truckers 1 Farming cannot be done without the use of stable manure as a basis ; chemical fertilizers will * burn up’ the soil! At certain seasons of the year we 
hear these statements repeated over and over again. How ridiculous they appear after a visit to 1 1 ‘ community we speak of. Here we have a class of farmers growing rich at pro¬ 
ducing hay, potatoes, com and wheat. Yes, actually growing rich at producing Western products wi 50 miles of New York. And it is done practically without stable manure • 
a farm having less than 10 head of cattle sells from $1,000 to $1,200 worth of hay and absolutely grows stronger and more productive each year. Under such a system of 
agriculture the boys stay at home, farm life is robbed of its worst features and becomes a very ideal life of comfort and happiness. We saw this life realized-saw the crops the 
tools, the men. \\ e were so interested in it that we propose to tell R. N.-Y. readers just what we saw. We hope our report will lead to some hard thinking. It will be nothW 
but a report as honestly written as pccsiblc.” __ 
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The reports on these farms may be found in the Rural New-Yorker, on pages 441 and 442, July 6th, and on pages 459 and 460, July 13th, 1889, under heading “New Jersey Farms that 
Pay.” On these farms (D. C.‘ Lewis’s and others) the Mapes Manures have been used almost exclusively from ten to fifteen years successively, and the crops average fully double 
those grown in former years under the systems then practiced. Poor lands are now purchased at current low rates with confidence by farmers who know from experience that thev 
can bring up these lands into good, profitable grass-growing condition, and make money from the start. y 
"VegetalDle Grro’wing—-Early Trucli. 
FROM THE RENOWNED NEW JERSEY TRUCK-GROWER, THEO. F. BAKER. 
Bridgeton, N. J., October 16th, 1889. 
Mi. Charles V. Mapes: 
It is with pleasure I report on the .use and application of the Mapes Vegetable Manure. 
During the season just passed, I used it in comparison with other good fertilizers, but 
more especially against one brand having an analysis of six per cent, ammonia, 10 per 
cent, phosphoric acid, and five per cent, potash. Also used it in combination with stable 
manure, and alone. Applied from 500 pounds to 2,000 pounds per acre, as to the require¬ 
ments of the crop to be grown, on the following crops: beets, radishes, early cabbage, 
early tomatoe&, peepers, celery and late potatoes. While we have had a continued wet 
season, and all forms of manures and fertilizers have had a most favorable opportunity ti 
do their best, tlieJi egetable Manure stands at the head, and showed by its marked effect 
upon all crops treated to an application to be the most profitable, producing earlie 
and more abundant yields, most thrifty and less disea^ plants. Especially s< 
with early tomatoes, peppers, early cabbage and potatoes. 
Yours truly, . 
(Signed) THEO. T KER, Bridgeton, N. J. 
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OVER THIRTY FRIZES WITH THE MAJ'E.^N'^ ;'f ABLE MANURE—1889. 
Qffi| /li, Conn., November 12th, 1889. 
Mr. Charles V. Mapes, H/ 
Dear Sir : Wishing to try your Vegetable Manure the past season, I used it oi 
some 80 different varieties of vegetables. Where it was used there was a more luxurian 
growth of tops and vines than in the neighboring rows and beds where we used barnyan 
manure. 
The yields when the crops were gathered were plainly greater and of better types from 
the portions where your fertilizers were used than from the remainder of the pieces. 
We succeeded in taking first prizes at our State Fair on sweet corn (which the com¬ 
mittee classed as extra fine), crookneck squashes, Guernsey parsnips, carrots, onions, pota¬ 
toes and beans, while at our local fair we were awarded some 30 prizes on our various 
exhibits. 
In experimenting we could only grow a small quantity of each kind, therefore we 
think our success the greater. I am 
Respectfully yours, 
(Signed) CHARLES E. LORD. 
FROM THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, JULY 26, 1889. 
I pon the use of fertilizers, to a great extent, will depend the future agricultural 
greatness of this State. It is getting to be a pleasure to take a tour through our markets 
and see the advance we have made during the past three or four years. Where we for¬ 
merly had poor, scrubby, sickly-looking vegetables and fruits, we now have a show that 
will compare favorably .with any of the largest northern cities. Luscious and finely- 
flavored berries, melons and fruits; choice vegetables of all kinds, many of them compara¬ 
tively unknown until within the past two or three years. We northerners have sighed for 
Lima beans and nutmeg melons, heretofore unattainable to us. This year we have both 
in all their glory, as fine as any raised anywhere. For the great improvement in these 
lines we must give the credit to the Mapes Fertilizers. They are far more extensively used 
by vegetable-growers than any other brand, and have giveu the most remarkable results 
during the past two years. They are sold all over the State, and to appreciate this fact 
y° u have only to ask the question: “ W hat fertilizer do you use to produce this result ?” 
and nine times out of ten the reply will be: “ Why, Mapes, of course.” 
ORANGE TREES. 
Extract from the Descriptive Catalogue of the-famous Buckeye Nurseries, South Lake 
Weir, Marion County, Florida, GILLETT BROS., proprietors.—1889 : 
“ We have tried about everything sold in the State in the way ot commercial fertilizers 
and some time ago came to the conclusion that the Mapes Orange Tree Fertilizer stands 
at the head of the list. For permanent effect on soil, and wood aud fruit development it 
stands without a rival. In their pamphlet they use no ambiguous language; they agree 
to give us pure animal bone instead of Charleston phosphate rock, and there is no doubt 
but what they do it. 
Send postal for descriptive pamphlets, (farm crops, trucks, grapes, fruits, etc.) The Mapes Fertilizers, owing to their 
shipment, and make a saving of fully one-half in freight as compared with ordinary Commercial Super-Phosphates. 
high concentration are particularly well 
adapted for long 
iMAPFS FORM LA & PiSRIVIAN GUANO €0., 158 Front Street., New Fork. 
J. It. TYSFN «& CO., Forwarding Agents, at Jacksonville, Florida. 
