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LARGE PROFITS •«VARIED SOILS 
WITHOUT FARM MANURE 
FRUIT, TRUCK AND SPECIAL CROP GROWING ON A LARGE SCALE 
In many cases some of these soils are of the lightest sandy oharaoter. Some in Florida have been described as “looking under a pocket 
magnifier like powdered window glass.” They have little plant food resources of their own. All has to be supplied in the fertilizer. 
Prom the American Agriculturist, March 21, 1903. 
TRUCK FARMING WITH FERTILIZERS. 
Most of our readers are familiar with the strawberry farming practiced 
by W. F. Allen, of Maryland, through his annual announcement in our 
advertising columns of strawberry plants for sale. They may not know 
that his success is largely due to the use of fertilizers. He uses over 100 
tons of fertilizer annually on his 210 acres of strawberries. 
Another Maryland grower, J. A. Davis, raises 100 acres of strawberries 
for market and .realizes fancy prices. In ten years he has become a rich 
man on strawberries grown with artificial fertilizers only, while his 
neighbors who pursue the old method are still struggling for an existence. 
Every intelligent potato grower now knows that the most profitable of 
these crops require the liberal use of fertilizers, but some truck farmers 
still cling to stable manure exclusively. We know one trucker, however, 
who used 250 tons of asparagus fertilizer last year, and 100 tons of com¬ 
mercial fertilizer for potatoes and cabbage. Another successful trucker 
near Charleston uses 400 tons of fertilizer annually for potatoes, cabbage 
and strawberries. Equal success is reported by potato growers and others 
on Long Island and in New Jersey. The methods pursued by these men 
are clearly set forth in the fruit and truck pamphlets issued by The Mapes 
Company. 
From the Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla., April 10, 1903. 
WORTH A SECOND READING. 
Practice and science are profitably blended in these extremely valuable 
booklets. “Fertilizer Farming Up to Date” is a review of practical experi¬ 
ence covering twenty to twenty-five years of various soils with the use of 
only Mapes’ complete manures, without a pound of stable manure. Profits 
are reported by this method of farming from start to finish, while the rec¬ 
ord shows that these lands have steadily improved in fertility and in pro¬ 
fit-producing power. No matter what kind of farming one may practice, 
the perusal of this booklet will be an eye-opener. Another entitled 
“Strawberries on Light Soils” is an equally fascinating recital of the re¬ 
markable profits obtained by up-to-date methods in strawberry culture by 
many of the largest as well as smallest horticulturists throughout the 
Middle and Eastern States. 
From the American Cultivator, Boston, Mass., March 2S, 1903. 
These pamphlets are a revelation in the successful and profitable ferti¬ 
lization of even the thinnest, lightest and poor soils from the state of 
abandonment up to the continuous profit of successful farming for years, 
with the constant improvement of the soil, showing that with the Mapes 
Manures good crops may be assured from the start, also with the land 
growing more fertile and more valuable year by year. 
Extract from strawberry pamphlet issued by W. F. Allen, 1903. 
“I shall plant all told this Spring 160 acres and carry over 50 acres for fruiting the second year, making 210 acres in all planted in strawberries.” 
Mr. Allen is rated as the largest grower and shipper of strawberry plants in the country, and also one of the largest, if not the very largest, 
grower of fruit. He received one check from a Boston commission house for $8,500.00 besides many smaller checks for strawberry crop. 
55,982 QUARTS OF STRAWBERRIES ON II ACRES 
Extract from letter from Mr. W. F. Allen to the Mapes Company November 3, 1902. 
“In the Fall of 1901 on a field of 11 acres of Excelsior strawberries I top-dressed with the ‘Mapes Fruit and Vine Fertilizer’ at the rate of 1,000 pounds 
per acre. This same field picked the past season 55,982 quarts or 5,082 quarts per acre. We call this a very fine yield and I doubt if its equal has ever 
been made in this county before. We are now top-dressing again for next season’s crop and shall use the same quantity per acre of the same brand of 
fertilizer. I used during 1902 over 100 tons of your fertilizer, and in 1903 shall probably use considerably more than this amount.” 
Mr. Allen stated in a recent address, January, 1904, before the Peninsula Horticultural Society, in a talk on CANTALOUPE GEOWING, that 
“he always used the Mapes Vegetable Manure on all his Cantaloupes because he found it the best he could buy.” 
(Extracts from The Rural New-Yorker April 18, 1903.) MAKING MONEY WITH STRAWBERRIES J- A. Davis, Caroline County, Md. 
I have been growing strawberries 13 years. The first thing I want to explain in the money-making business of the cultivation of strawberries is the 
plowing of the ground. We commence in the Fall with heavy plows, using three or four mules and going down 10 or 12 inches. Water is what the straw¬ 
berry wants, and not being in a section where we can irrigate, the plow is the next best thing that can be provided. By deep Fall plowing, I find that the 
ground works much better in the Spring. In addition many insects are destroyed that would otherwise be detrimental to the plants. In the Spring we 
drill in 500 pounds of fertilizer each way, making 1,000 pounds per acre. It would be disastrous to plow so deeply if we did not use large quantities of 
high-grade fertilizer. We replow the same ground again in the Spring. It has been said by some strawberry growers that no man can make money by 
using 1,000 pounds fertilizers per acre. I NEVER MADE A DOLLAR UNTIL I DID THIS VERY THING. I do not want it to appear that I am blowing 
my own horn, but I ship as high as 20,000 quarts per day during the busy weeks, and from 250,000 to 300,000 quarts during the season. I began with four 
acres and have since made strawberries my main crop and love the business. Some of my friends want me to leave the country and come back to New 
York City, which I left some years ago. I reply that I expect to be walking on the green when they are sleeping under it. Give me the glorious old farm; 
on it I find life, happiness and dollars to make pleasure. I HAVE MADE MONEY 12 YEARS IN SUCCESSION GROWING STRAWBERRIES and think 
the business will compare favorably with almost any other when properly managed. If a man will be satisfied with $10,000 or $12,000 per year, he can make 
it out of the strawberry business when properly handled. 
LONG-CONTINUED SUCCESS IN PROFITABLE ORANGE GROWING IN FLORIDA 
High quality and large yields. These and many other growers use annually from IOO tons to 500 tons of the 
MAPES FERTILIZERS 
Extract from the official report of the annual meeting at Miami, Fla., of the Florida State Horticultural Society, by the Secretary, Stephen 
Powers, Agricultural Editor. (From the Times-Union Farmer and Fruit-Grower, Jacksonville, May 15, 1903.) 
The orange crop of Dr. F. W. Inman, Winter Haven, the past season, 1902-1903, gives percentage of russets as too insignificant to reckon with, includ¬ 
ing round oranges, tangerines and pomeloes, and from this he netted $3.05 a box all around. Dr. Inman’s groves are on the light, dry, sandy soils of the 
lake regions of Polk County, with no forests except the piny woods in the distance, and 40 feet to the line of permanent water. Dr. Inman stated at the 
meeting that out of his entire crop of 12,000 boxes not a single complaint had been received of one rotten orange, though last season was excessively wet 
the greater part of it. Dr. Inman writes: 
It might interest you to know what the result and success have been from my last season, 1902-1903. I am glad to report that I have 
now sold upward of $30,000 worth of fruit with a few more cars to go. I have had no trouble in making sales of my round oranges at $3.50 per box spot cash, 
f. o. b. here, while the balance of the round orange crop in this county has not brought on an average of $1.50 per box. March 11, 1903. 
The 80 tons of Fruit and Vine Manure just ordered will be only a part of the Fall feeding for my grove. You will note that I am using upward of 500 tons 
of your manures per year. Allow me to say that I think you will be proud to know of the results obtained by the use of your fertilizers by my neighbors 
and myself in the past three or four years. I think that I can safely assert that there are not such perfect crops of fruit to be shown in the State as we 
are able to show this season, and have been for the past two seasons. I think that the change made in your formula the past season has added very much 
to the efficacy of the fertilizers.* Nearly all of the growers in the vicinity are using none but your goods, and it is truly becoming quite a show ground for 
those who make a study of fine fruit. November 3, 1903. *This refers to the reduction of the organic nitrogen in the fertilizer to a minimum, and the increased 
use of nitrate of potash. Peruvian Guano, MADE SOLUBLE WITHOUT ACIDITY, carbonate of potash, etc. 
50,000 Boxes of Oranges from groves manured exclusively with the Mapes Orange Tree 
and the Mapes Fruit and Vine Manures, since the freeze, 1894. 
“Probably there is no one in the State of Florida more largely interested in orange growing to-day than ourselves, having a crop of over 50,000 boxes 
this year from our own and other groves that we are interested in, and, as you are aware, we are obliged to use fertilizers in large quantities. Any little 
saving in the price of a fertilizer would mean a great many dollars to us, and up to the present time we have seen no chance to make any saving by using 
cheaper goods, or any other fertilizer. We shall continue to use your goods just as long as they give as good results as they have in the past, and are giv¬ 
ing at the present time. We wish we could have arranged to have had some photographs taken when we began to use your goods, and also how they look 
to-day, after using them the past year. We would like to add that your fertilizer is the only make we would recommend to anyone wishing for best re¬ 
sults, and we take pleasure in recommending them.” (Extract from letter from J. H. Preston & Co., Providence, R. I., January 4, 1904.) 
Special pamphlet and circulars sent free on the growing of Celery (over $11,500, 31 acres, crop 1903); also on 
Strawberries, Truck, Small Fruit; Tobacco oiv Varied Soils; Fertilizer Farming Up-to-date (general farm crops; 
Oranges and All Tropical Fruits in Florida; Top-Dressing of Lawns, Golf Links, Parks with the “Mapes Top Dresser, 
improved” (ammonia l2°/o, phosphoric acid 8%, potash 4°/o). The highest grade, the most soluble and quick¬ 
acting of any made, fine, dry and free from odor. 
IN SENDING FOR PAMPHLETS, PLEASE STATE THE CROPS IN WHICH YOU ARE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO CO. 
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