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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 15, 1902 
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NAPES COMPLETE MANURES 
Permanence and Certainty Combined in the Complete Mapes Manures 
(From The Rural New-Yorker, March 17, 1900.) 
Twenty Years After.—There are still some farmers who undertake to argue that fertilizers are not casting in their effects. All such farmers should read 
Twenty Years After, a pamphlet just issued by the Mapes Fertilizer Company, 143 Liberty Street, New York City. This pamphlet tells the story of a farm 
in Connecticut on which fertilizers have been exclusively used for 20 years. While practically all other farm methods have been changed on this farm, 
“twenty years after” finds the farmer still using the same fertilizer in the same way. A piece of land as poor “as ever lay outdoors” was brought back to 
usefulness and profit, by the use of the MAPES HIGH-GRADE MANURES. It is a true story, we will vouch for that, and one that will put new heart into 
every fertilizer farmer. One would suppose that a 20-year test is long enough to establish the value of chemical fertilizers, and here we have the test. The 
pamphlet also shows why these high-grade manures give results which could not be obtained with super-phosphates or cheap mixtures. 
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Twenty Years After” 
(From The American Agriculturist, Feb. 24, 1900.) 
Twenty Years After is the title of a pamphlet which gives the experience of Newton Osborn, a prominent Connecticut farmer, in converting worthless 
land into a source of profit for the past 20 years by the use of fertilizers alone. The fact that Mr. Osborn still employs the same methods now as 20 years 
ago shows that he started right and is keeping right. As he has used the Mapes manures exclusively, the pamphlet is a wonderful showing for the perma¬ 
nence of these fertilizers, their combined solubility and power to build up the land. It is evident from this and many other experiences that there are but 
few lands that cannot be made to pay in the hands of good farmers by using the right methods of culture and fertilizers. This statement is borne out by 
other experiences cited in the work referred to. 
The Mapes Pamphlets 
(From The Rural New-Yorker, March 8, 1901.) 
A set of the Mapes pamphlets for the past 25 years would make a clear story of the rise and development of the science of chemical manuring. Mr. 
Mapes has led the way in this matter of business education of fertilizer farmers. The Mapes brands have always represented the highest standard. Those 
who use them are not only the most successful farmers, but also men of intelligence and standing who have studied the fertilizer question in all its details. 
They know the difference between high-grade and low-grade goods. They continue to use “Mapes” because their accounts show a profit from its use. Be¬ 
sides being highly instructive the Mapes pamphlets contain clearly written statements of the methods followed by these successful farmers. For example, 
“Twenty Years After” tells how Newton Osborn, of Connecticut, started with poor land and brought it to a high state of cultivation by the use of ferti¬ 
lizers alone. It was made to pay a profit from the start. “Chemicals and Clover” describes in detail the famous rotation followed at Cranbury, N. J., by D. 
C. Lewis and others. “Fertilizer Farming” gives details concerning the operations of successful farmers on Long Island who produce immense crops on 
poor soil by the use of fertilizers alone. “Fertilizers and Fruit” shows what some of the most successful fruit growers in the East are doing with chemi¬ 
cals. So it is all through the list—the most successful farmers, fruit growers and truckers have contributed their experience to these pamphlets. They 
cover every branch of soil culture. 
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COPY OF CARD ISSUED BY ONE OF OUR AGENTS. 
I have been the Mapes agent at Jacksonville for twenty-five years. In that time I have sold, probably two millions of 
dollars of their goods. They have been distributed to almost every hamlet in the State. Their name is a household word with 
every farmer and fruit grower. The results of their use can be found in every neighborhood. I have dealt largely in groceries, 
grain, flour, etc. In my long experience in those lines, I have had thousands of complaints of every kind, from Pillsbury’s 
flour down to cotton seed hulls, but I cannot remember of ever having a complaint that the Mapes Manures were not just 
what they csaimed to be, and it is a great pleasure to handle them, They have fattened thousands of pocketbooks all over the 
State. They are the only brands that command cash. Agents have written us hundreds of times, “ If I could only sell your 
goods on time, same as other fertilizers are sold, I could do nearly all the fertilizer business in the place/-’—J. R Tysen, Agent, 
Jacksonville, Florida, January, 1902. 
THE MAPES POTATO MANURE. 
During the past trying season (1901) the superiority of the Mapes Potato Manure o /ertlie lower priced “ cheaper ” fertilizers 
was clearly demonstrated While the yields were below the average of other years, they were large enough with the good prices 
obtained to make very satisfactory returns to the growers. The GREATER CERTAINTY of action of a manure like the Mapes 
Potato, as compared with a mixture of dissolved rock, muriate of potash, tankage or nitrate of soda, is the presence of so many 
MORE VARIED FORMS, all soluble and available to plants, THOROUGHLY BLENDED, free from acidity or ANY - OBJECT¬ 
IONABLE effects on the roots or the soil, securing a full, complete, normal successive feeding—the same as from the best stable 
manure—also with greater certainty of results both in QUALITY and QUANTITY" of product and with steady IMPROVEMENT 
to the soil. 
“Under average conditions, and in far the greater number of cases, we do not hesitate to name the Mapes Potato Manure as the best and most profit¬ 
able fertilizer for potatoes.”—American Agriculturist. 
“Its action approaches certainty, or as near to it as any manure can be expected to do.”—E. S. Carman, Rural New-Yorker. 
The American Agriculturist in commenting on these enormous yields with the Mapes Potato Manure, in comparison with other brands in the great 
Prize Contest, stated: “Apparently, it is not so much the quantity, but the forms in which the plant-food is furnished that govern the yield, provided a 
reasonable amount is supplied.” 
“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. 
(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.” 
Mr. Carman stated in The Rural New-Yorker that he had used the Mapes Potato Manure for Seventeen Years. 
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The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Go., 143 Liberty Street, New York. 
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