THE HAPES 
Potato Manure. 
EXCELLENTFOR Ul VEGETABLES. 
Not a Single Hollow or Decayed Potato—445 Bnsliels per 
Acre.—No Staple Manure nsed—Only the Mapes. 
JOSIAH HAWKINS, the well-known Seed-Grower, Soutlipoit, 
Conn., December 23d, 1885, reports: 
Crop—Potatoes, “Dakota Red." 
Soil—Light, thin and gravelly. 
Time of Planting—April 25tli. 
Fertilizer applied—1,200 lbs. of Mapes’ Potato Manure per acre, sown broadcast 
and bashed in at time of planting. No other manure nor fertilizer used. 
Cultivation—Hoed once and plowed three times. 
Yield—Dug them the middle of September, they yielded 445 bushels of very 
large, handsome potatoes per acre. 
Quality—Not a single hollow or decayed one. Qualtity and looks much like the 
“Early Rose,” when they were first introduced. Iam selling all the time for seed. 
Old farmers say they never saw such fine potatoes. 1 have 2,500 bushels of them. The 
quality of potatoes is of the greatest importance with me—and I generally grow eigh¬ 
teen acres. 
Remarks—Last year, 1884, the yield of potatoes of the common varieties, upon 
the same ground with stable manure, was 115 bushels per acre. I have used many of 
the fertilizers offered for sale and have found that it pays me well to use your fertil¬ 
izers and so say my neighbors. I have seen the analyses of your fertilizers repeatedly 
by our own and other State Boards (Experiment Stations) and I am fully convinced 
that all who want reliable, lasting fertilizers should have the Mapes. Your Corn and 
other Fertilizers have given great satisfaction. 
Use of stable manure for Potatoes abandoned in this localitiy in favor of the Maizes Potato 
Manure. 
W. F. AN GROSS, East Hartford, Conn., November 18, 1884, writes: 
For the fouth year I have used the Mapes Potato Manure with continued anil un¬ 
varying success. I raised upwards of 700 bushels of potatoes the past season, embrac- 
ing 17 varieties, an 1 mostly upon the Mapes Formula. I can report only in a general 
way, as my successes with your manures in past seasons led me to abandon further ex¬ 
periments with them, as I feel assured that 1 can depend on them every time for satis¬ 
factory results. I tried three other kinds of potato manure the past season under sim¬ 
ilar test conditions with yours, as far as regards soil, variety, and time of planting and 
harvesting. 1 find, as heretofore, that the “Mapes” does the best. As to stable man¬ 
ure for potatoes, the fact that its use is abaudoned in this locality in favor of the 
“Mapes" is sufficient argument, that the farmers think yours insures the best results. 
SEND POSTAL FOR DESCRIPTIVE PAMPHLET ON MANURES FOR POTATOES, 
CABBAGES, CAULIFLOWERS, FRUITS, FARM CROPS, ETC. Address 
The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Co., 
153 Front Street, New York* 
WILLIAMS. CLARK & CO.’s 
HIGH GRADE BO NE FERTILIZERS . 
Connecticut Experiment Station Valuations 
of Americus Superphosphate. 
Analysis of 1 O Samples. 1885, nave..836,09 
Americus Tobacco P'ertilizer, 1885.. 38.09 
Pure Bone .Ileal, I Rumples, gave. 35.04 
Valuation in Mnssacliiiseiis, 4 temples 
Americus Sll per phosphate, gave 1885, 
835,93. 836.88. 
No Fertilizers selling at the same price shout as High 
VftlunM |>.» 
I have used your A5TEK ‘L PHOSPHATE on jny 
Corn urnl am safe In nay I raised the Larsesi crop 
ever raised !u Conueclieu We yield was 179 bushels 
and 23 i inarm studied cor acre. 
T. H. W jg!AN, Greens Forms, Ct. 
The above field of eor ^visited by nan. T. R. Gold, 
Secretory Hoard of Apr »«sre of Conn., and Prof. W. 
H. Brewer of Yolo Coll .^Jnd both pronounced It the 
best field of Corn they Chaw. 
SKIYD I-’O £ ^motriiAH., 
P| Cm. OFFICE: 
COTTON EXCHBUILDING, NEW YORK. 
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FEED TOUli LAND AND IT WILL FEED YOU. 
CONCENTRATED PLANT FOOD 
A COMPLETE BONE MANURE FOR ALL CROPS. 
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS. 
A vailable Phosphoric Acid * 8 to 9 per cent. 
Done Phosphate (Undissolved ), 4 to 6 “ 
Ammonia, . . . .2 to 2}£ “ R. B. STATION. 
Sulphate of Potash, . . 4 to 5 “ Discount, on orders for one or more car loads. 
Every batch of this fertilizer is analyzed by Messrs. STILLWELL tfr GLADDING, Chem¬ 
ists to the N. Y. Produce Exchange, whose high reputation is abundant guarantee that the 
goods arc equal to the analysis. 
Buyers are invited to have samples drawn and analyzed by their State Chemists, and the 
fertilizer is guaranteed to come up to the above standard by their tests. 
This Concentrated Plant Food is the result of 20 years’ experience in the manufacture and 
use of chemical manures. It is a far higher grade than uuy fertilizer ever before offered to 
farmers for $28 per ton, proportionately cheaper than any higher or lower priced brand, 
and cheaper than farmers could buy the ingredients and make it. 
It is warranted to contain no leather, shoddy, hoofs, horns, or similar material; all Its 
fertilizing elements being in their most availuble forms. 
Compare the analysis and price (which includes f reight) with other brands. 
Price $28 per Ton. 
FREIGIIT PAID TO YOUR NEAREST 
10 BURLING 8L1P, 
corner Water Street, New York. 
The prizes which we offered in 1885 were awarded as follows by the Vegetable Committee of 
the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, for the largest crop of potatoes grown on the STOCK- 
BRIDCE POTATO MAUURE. 
1st Prctu., H. C. Hereon. Htealrn, N. Y. 
2d '• Stephen Hoyt’s gone, New Canaan, I't 
3d “ Jod BuiM, Sunderland, Mass. 
4th *' G. W. Sherman, Smlthfleld, R. I. 
r>th " tl 8. Bather, Smith Kingstown, R. I.... 
6th “ J. IV. Norton, Wolcott, K.I 
Yield on W acre, 9920 lbs., or 661 
•• •• 3523 lbs., " 508 
“ '• am lbs., *• -P.26 
“ “ 4300 lbs., •* $20 
•• “ Mfil lbs., “ 304 
•• •' ism lbs,. " 30*4 
1-4 Bash, per acre. 
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Mr. Peai*son, who took the first prize, plauted the crop on May 18, and harvested Sept. 24. 
Stockbridge Manure alone was used, at the rate o£l,0001bs. per acre. The soil was a sandy loam. 
Potatoes were planted one piece in a hill, hoed three times, and weeded by hand. 
Stephen Hoyt's Sous, who took the second prize, planted on Kith May, and harvested 23rd 
September. Stockbridge Manure alone was used, at the rate of 1,500 lbs. per acre. The soil 
had been used for nursery purposes, and had not been in turf for forty years. The fertilizer 
used on this crop was two years old, showing that these celebrated Manures do not lose their 
virtue by being kept over, as many farmers suppose. 
B0WKER FERTILIZER COMPANY, 
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largest herd and largest average milk records. 
3 cowb have averaged over 20.WXJ lbs. in a year. 
5 cows have averaged nver 19,000 lbs in a year. 
ID cows have averaged over 18.000 lbs. In a year. 
2T> cows have averaged over 16,01)0 llis. In a year. 
63, including 14 ..year olds and 21 two-year olds, have aver¬ 
aged 12,78,'. lbs. 5 oy,. In h year. 
BUTTER U ECO IMIS, 
fi cows have averaged fin lbs. 7 ms. In a week. 
9 cows have averaged 19 lbs. W oz. in n week. 
11 Ihree-year olds have averased 13 Ihx 2 oz. in a week. 
15 twoveniolds have averaged 10 lbs. 8 3-10 oz. In 8 week. 
This is the herd from which to get foundation stock. Prices 
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