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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 1 
March 17, 1900 
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Farms Growing Richer Each Year 
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Send postal for latest pamphlet, “Twenty Years After.”—Profit from the start in bringing up 
the POOREST SOILS without farm manure. Practical experience for long series of years on 
varied soils with ordinary Farm Crops, Potatoes, Wheat, Hay, Corn, Oats, etc.—Crops doubled. 
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 
start only the MAPES MANURES used The New England Farmer said of this field: “ Now that 
seven acres is easily worth as a property, paying dividends at five per cent, on $4,000.” 
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I have used the MAPES MANURES over 25 years almost exclusively. When I started to use the MAPES MANURES I had one of the poorest farms jlj 
in the 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 | j 
have seen my hay crops for the last 10 years, no better in the county, and I owe it all to the MAPES MANURES as far as fertility is concerned.— fij 
[Lewis Beltz, North Penn, Pa. 
Before using MAPES MANURES we thought 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 well for your ||| 
goods for one who does not buy any manure. We keep four horses on farm and four cows, so you may know about what manure the land gets.—[R. Ifl 
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 assertion Pi 
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. liijj 
My land is a standing practical advertisement of the merits of the MAPES MANURES. I have used them almost exclusively for the past sixteen years, {II 
with results that should be convincing to anyone seeing the permanent improvement in the productiveness of my farms. My crops are wheat, corn, oats, l|| 
potatoes, clover and grass.—[D. R. Merkel, Shiremanstown, Pa., June 9th, 1899. Ii{ 
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Farms Constantly Grow Stronger. Experience with Mapes Manures Over 30 Years. 
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Dr. F. M. Hexamer, Editor American Agriculturist, March, 1898, writes: 
The testimony of thousands of farmers shows that by the use of MAPES MANURES large yields of highest quality are obtained, while the fit 
farms are constantly growing stronger. Indeed, practical results from the use of these fertilizers have been substantial profit, even during the past 1.1 
hard times. As we have previously remarked, our own experience, extending through a period of over thirty years, has always shown the Mapes fer- |§f 
tilizers to be invariably satisfactory, on the truck farm and in the garden, as well as in the field, orchard and meadow. PI 
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My Farm is Getting Richer Every Year. 
Wilmer Atkinson, editor and proprietor of the Farm Journal, reports on the MAPES MANURES: I do not use stable manure, and my farm is j"j 
getting richer every year. We have found the MAPES MANURES equally good for grass, potatoes, corn and orchard trees. 
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Farms Steadily Improved and Crops Doubled. 
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[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 HI 
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 Ill 
having steadily improved in condition, and their crops as double those formerly grown, while the quality of the crops has greatly Improved, and their f";| 
profits largely increased. HI 
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The Mapes Complete Manures 1 
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Potatoes, Truck, Fruits, Corn, Tobacco, Onions, Oats, Top- 
Dressing, Meadows, Orchards, Etc. 
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 
Potato Culture.” 
The Practical Farmer on the MAPES POTATO MANURE in the prize potato contest: “During the past five years there has scarcely been a 
recognized authority on potato growing who has not stated as a result of practical experience that a commercial fertilizer like the MAPES POTATO 
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 
profitable 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 superior¬ 
ity of a really 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 MAPES 
POTATO MANURE to any farm manure for potatoes, particularly when the highest quality is desired.”—American Cultivator. 
“The advantage of the MAPES is that it goes in a straight line right to the spot. We never miss getting a carload for our orchard.” 
"We have been using the MAPES POTATO MANURE for eight years, 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 used to with stable manure.”—Wilmer Atkinson, Farm Journal. 
Note: Mr. Atkinson has now used the MAPES POTATO MANURE and the MAPES CORN MANURE, one and two cars per year, for 12 years. 
How Much Can Be Used with Safety? 
“If I use 800 pounds per acre MAPES POTATO MANURE, d^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 potato f 3r of high grade will injure the crop, no matter what the weather might be. The 
question as to how much fertilizer may be profitably used on is one the Rural New-Yorker feels it has a right to answer with authority. 
For many years—as the “New Potato Culture” records—we h?^ ^ jd experiments to throw light upon this question. We have useu all the way from 
200 to 2250 pounds to the acre, and the emphatic result has at up to 1750 pounds the largest amount has been profitable.”—[E. S. Carman, Editor 
Rural New-Yorker. ^ 
The prices of the MAPES MANURES were redu Jn. 1, 1899 The prices have not been advanced this year. 
While the advance in fertilizing materials has beg tre than enough to justify us in raising the prices of the MAPES MANURES, we have 
aecided to make no change. We prefer to give our customers the benefit of the favorable contracts made by us before the market advanced, 
and believe 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 or to 
The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Go., 143 Liberty Street, New York. 
The highest prices obtained for tobacco crops in Mass, and Ct reported in the press the past year (1899) were grown with the MAPES TOBACCO 
MANURES. 
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