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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Send for latest pamphlets (1901), entitled 
Strawberries, Strawberry Plants, Small Fruits, Asparagus, Cabbages, Potatoes 
and General Truck Crops for Market. 
'I’he thinnest, lightest poor soils bro\ight up into good condition with large profits from the start. Ex])erience in sotne cases 
of 25 years and over. Some Extracts from “Fertilizer Farming Up to Date,” ‘ Rural New-Yorker,” etc., 
by H. W. Collingwood, Editor of “The Rural New-Yorker”. 
Two of the largest and most successful growers of asparagus, potatoes, cabbages, over lOO acres each, also of strawberries, one 
over 100 acres, another over 200 acres, 1002, also orange groves, over 300 acres. Growers of truck of all kinds, cauliflowers, 
cucumbers, beans, green, egg plants, as specialties, have used the Mapes Manures almost exclusively for some twenty years, and their 
purchase for this year larger than ever before. 
Send for latest pamphlet, 1903, entitled 
Fertilizer Farming Up to Date. 
(CHEMICALS AND CLOVER, Third Series) 
The Poorest, Light, Sandy Soils Brought Up to High Fertility with PROFIT FROM THE START. 
A review of practical experience covering twenty to twenty-five years on varied soils (from almost pure sand to medium heavy h»ani) 
without stable manure (only the Mapes Complete Manures used), with profit from the start, and the lands found to be steadily imiiroving 
in fertility and yielding increased profits. These farmers and special crop growers are among the most successful in the country. 
“ FERTILIZER FARMING,” bv H. W. Collingwood, editor of the “ Rural New Yorker.” An account of visits to farms of successful 
truckers, growers'of cabbages, cauliflower, potatoes, etc , on Long Island. This pamphlet has received the highest praise of the leading 
agricultural journals. It is thoroughly practical. . ^ i • i- , , , 
Dr. F. M. Hexamer, editor of the American Agriculturist, wrote of “ Fertilizer Farming” in 1894 : “ The reading of this little book 
is as fascinating as a first-class novel, and yet tliere is not a particle of fiction or theorizing about it. It is simply a clear statement of 
solid facts Anyone who will take the trouble to visit the farming districts of Long Island, and will stop at the most thrifty looking 
farms, will find hundreds of farmers who do not hesitate to declare that tliey owe their good crops and success mainly to the use of Mapes 
Fertilizers, and that they would never think of attempting to farm without them.” 
Increase Yield from only 400 lbs- per 
acre Potato Fertilizer. 
Mr. J. S. Van Exton, Xenia, Ohio, reports—“ Season 19U2 used 
the Mapes Potato Manure on four acres of potatoes, planting three 
varieties.” Yield in bushels computed per acre : 
Variety No. 1. Variety Nf). 2. Variety No. .'S. 
Mapes Potato, 400 lbs. 100.50 .-US. 10 105.00 
No Fertilizer. lOO.t'O 14^.05 07..50 
Increase in bushels. 0.3..10 70.00 07.50 
This gives a total increase (on three acres) of 2()6>4 bushels, or 
an average of 88)4 bushels per acre My total planting was four 
acres and say increased yield was easily upward 350 bushels. Cost 
of fertilizer with freight, $24 50. Potatoes at digging season were 
worth 40c. now GOc. Have sold but few so that with no future 
losses I estimate a large profit. 
Apple Orchards. • 
A grower writes: “We have GOO trees on the farm in New 
Baltimore, N. Y. But three tons of the ‘ Mapes Com[)lete Manure, 
1(1 per cent. Potash,’ were used on only about one-half of the trees. 
I'he 1,G00 barrels of apples we ]ucked were nearly all from the 
trees that we fertilized ; the other trees had only a few apples on 
them We spread the fertilizer in a circle of about 20 feet, using 20 
])ounds per tree.” 
ALL PA Mi’ll LETS 
POTATO YIELDS, SEASON 1902. 
See pamphlets for further details. 
18 acres Potatoes yield 2,200 barrels, eiiual to 305 bushels per 
acre. 2)4 acres Potatoes yield 025 barrels, equal to 411 bushels per 
acre. Several crops 350 to over 400 bushels per acre on single acres, 
usually one ton Mapes Potato per acre (wheat, Timothy, clover and 
corn follow, making a rotation of some five years). The fertilizer 
is used mainly on the “money” crop, potatoes. 
The grower of the 18 acre piece of iiotatoes, yield .305 bushels 
per acre, used of the Mapes Manures the ])ast season, 1902 : 
Mape.s Potato Manure.«()() ton.s. 
Mapes Cabbage Manui’e.100 ton.s. 
Mapes Fruit and Vine Manure for strawberries. 55 tons. 
Mapes Vegetable Manure for string beans. :b5 tons. 
Another grower used the past season : 
For asparagus (105 acres).;.’50 tons. 
F<n’ potatoes. S7 tons. 
For cabbage. 17 tons. 
Shipped, 1901, of cabbage, from seven acres, over 3,500 barrels 
with 1,000 barrels left uncut. 
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