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; Farms Growing Richer Each Year 
p Send postal for latest pamplilet, “Twenty Years After ”—Profit from the start in bringing up 
the POOREST SOILS without farm manure Practical experience for long series of years on 
I varied soils with ordinary Farm Crops, Potatoes, Wheat, Hay, Corn, Oats, etc—Crops doubled 
1 An experience on a poor, almost worthless field (seven acres), since 1879, up to date, that had 
| been brought up into good condition with profitable Crops, Potatoes, Oats, Corn and Hay, from the 
S start only the MAPES MANURES used The New England Farmer said of this field: “ Now that 
Ii seven acres is easily worth as a property, paying dividends at five per cent, on $4,000 
I have used the MAPES MANURES over 25 years almost exclusively. When I started to use the MAPES MANURES 1 had one of the poorest farms 
I! in th e county and at present time I have one of the best in the county. If you don’t believe it, come and judge for yourselves I wish you could 
~ Le seen my^r crops for the last 1.) years, no better in the county, and I owe it all to the MAPES MANURES as far as- fertility is concerned.- 
[Lewm Beltz, North Pen»;^ a ' wg though t it a big thing to grow 20 bushels of wheat to the acre, but can grow now on the average of from 
27 to 43 bushels and get far better grass. We cut in the year of 1898 about 55 tons of hay on 28 acres, and I think that speaks very -11 ™ 
goods for one who does not buy any manure. We keep four horses on farm and four cows, so you may know aoout what manure the land gets. [ . 
M Everett, Lawrence Station, Mercer Co., N. J., June 10th, 1899. . 
Our section is overrun with agents offering fertilizers at very low prices; and with many of our farmers the low price, backed by the assert 
of the agent that “it is just as good or better than the so-called high grade,” will win every time with the man that knows nothing about fertilizers. 
My land is a standing practical advertisement of the merits of the MAPES MANURES. 1 have used them almost exclusively for the past sixteen years, 
with results that should be convincing to anyone seeing the permanent improvement in the productiveness of my farms. My crops are wheat, com, oat , 
potatoes, clover and grass.—[D. R. Merkel, Shiremanstown, Pa., June 9th, 1899. 
Farms Constantly Grow Stronger. Experience with Mapes Manures Over 30 Years. 
Dr F M. Hexamer, Editor American Agriculturist, March, 1898. writes: • .. . . ... .. 
' The testimony ot thousands of farmers shows that by the use of MAPES MANURES large yields of highest quality are obtained, while the 
farms are constantly growing stronger. Indeed, practical results from the use of these fertilizers have been substantial profit, even during the past 
hard times. Is we have previously remarked, our own experience, extending through a period of over thirty years, has always shown the Mapes fer- 
tilizers to be invariably satisfactory, on the truck farm and in the garden, as well as in the field, orchard and meadow. 
My Farm is Getting Richer Every Year. 
Wilmer Atkinson, editor and proprietor ot the Farm Journal, reports on the MAPES MANURES: I do not use stable manure, and my farm Is 
getting richer every year. We have found the MAPES MANURES equally good for grass, potatoes, corn and orchard trees. 
Farms Steadily Improved and Crops Doubled. 
[From the New England Homestead.] 
The actual statements from those who have used these high-grade manures demonstrate the truth of the great claim made for the MAPES 
MANURES viz : that by their continued use, in some cases for 10, 12 and 15 years, farmers, truck growers and fruit growers report their lands as 
having steadily improved in condition, and their crops as double those formerly grown, while the quality of the crops has greatly improved, and their 
profits largely increased. 
The Mapes Complete Manures 
Potatoes, Truck, Fruits, Corn, Tobacco, Onions, Oats, Top- 
Dressing, Meadows, Orchards, Etc. 
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No Wormy Potatoes with the Mapes Potato Manure in Ten Years. 
We have raised potatoes on the same piece of land for 10 years, using every year the MAPES POTATO MANURE The last crop was as clean 
as the first Our friend who says he used manure and fertilizer together, and found many wormy potatoes, will find that it was the manure, not the 
fertilizer, that supplied the worms. Have used the MAPES POTATO MANURE for 17 years.-[Mr. E. S. Carman, Editor Rural New-Yorker and New 
’ 01 at °The 1 Practical Farmer on the MAPES POTATO MANURE in the prize potato contest: “During the past five years ^^H^ has scarceiy been a 
recognized authority on potato growing who has not stated as a result of practical experience that a commercial fertilizer like the MAPES POIAIO 
MANURE excelled stable manure in economy and in the yield and quality of potatoes. ... , 
‘‘Under average conditions, and in far greater number of cases, we do not hesitate to name the MAPES POTATO MANURE as the best and most 
Tirnfitable fertilizer for potatoes.”—American Agriculturist. . .. . 
“The MAPES POTATO MANURE was really the first manure to make a great reputation in this country, and the first to demonstrate the supenor- 
ifv of a reallv high grade properly prepared fertilizer over stable manure for potatoes. Before this time not one grower in a hundred would use 
anything but stable manure for this crop, and now for many years past there are few large growers who do not prefer a fertilizer like the 
POTATO MANURE to any farm manure for potatoes, particularly wl^s^he highest quality is desired.” American Cu iva 01 . 
“The advantage of the MAPES is that it goes in a straight 'to the spot. We never miss getting a carload for our ore ar . 
“We have been using the MAPES POTATO MANURE for e,<>^ /ears, indeed we do not care to use anything else for potatoes, and have never 
been disappointed yet. We do not have scabby potatoes as we use*? *th stable manure .’’-Wilmer Atkinson, Farm Journal. 
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“If I use 800 pounds per acre MAPES POTATO MANUK!^ you think there is any danger of the crop becoming fired in case of dry weather?” 
“Not the least danger is there that 800 pounds of pota'.^ Jilizer of high grade will injure the crop, no matter what the weather might be. T e 
question as to how much fertilizer may be profitably used on potatoes is one the Rural New-Yorker feels it has a right to answer with author! 
For many years—as the “New Potato Culture” records—we have tried experiments to throw light upon this question. We have useu all the way_fro 
200 to 22 L pounds to the acre, and the emphatic result has oeen that up to 1750 pounds the largest amount has been profitable.”-[E. S. Carman, Editor 
Rural New-Yorker. , , .... 
Thp nrices of the MAPES MANURES were reduced Jan. 1, 1899. The prices have not been advanced this ;eai. 
While the advance m fertilizing materials has been more than enough to justify us in raising the price, of the MAPES MANURES we have 
decided to make no change. We prefer to give our customers the benefit of the favorable contracts made by us before the market advanced, and be¬ 
lieve they will show their appreciation by a sufficient increase of orders to compensate us for the greater cost of later purchases. 
Sent free, pamphlets on the growing of tobacco, truck, fruits, farm crops, oranges, pineapples, truck in Florida, etc. Apply to local dealer 0 to 
The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Go., 143 Liberty Street, New York. 
| Th e highest prices obtained for tobacco crops in Mass, and Ct. reported in the press the past year (1899) were grown with the MAPES TOBACCO 
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