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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 10, 1897 
THE MAPES MANURES. 
Fertilizers for Hard Times. Prices Reduced. Standard Maintained. 
Basis of the Mapes Manures is Pure Bone, the BEST FORMS of Ammonia, Nitrogen and Potash are added, and in the best proportions. They 
enrich the soil same as stable manure. Hundreds of farms brought up and maintained in rich condition with 
paying crops for some 20 years, 
MAPES MANURES AND GRASS SOD IN FIVE YEARS’ 
ROTATION. ALE FARM MANURE USED ON CORN. 
[Fmm Rural New-Yorker, July 27, 1896 ] 
This system has been fully explained in a pamphlet. It is enough to say here 
that four crops are grown—potatoes, corn, wheat and grass. The potatoes are 
planted after corn, with 1,500 pounds of high-grade fertilizer to the acre. After 
digging, the potato ground is worked over and seeded to wheat with Timothy, and 
clover is added in the spring. After two years or more of grass, the stable 
manure is hauled and spread on the sod. This is all plowed under in the spring, 
and the ground is planted to corn—to be followed by potatoes, and so on through 
the rotation. The large dressing of fertilizer on the potatoes is supposed to carry 
through the wheat and grass. In case it is evidently needed, extra fertilizer if 
applied to these crops, but, generally speaking, the fertilizer used on the potatoes 
answers for potatoes, wheat and grass. A quantity of fertilizer is used in addition 
to the manure, on the corn. 
WHEAT 25 TO 30 BUSHELS PER ACRE. HAY 2>4 TONS 
PER ACRE, WITHOUT ADDITIONAL FERTILIZER. 
Me D. C. Lewis, Middlesex County, N. J., in a recent interview states: “My 
wheat will run from 25 to 30 bushels per acre, and, even in this dry season, I have 
grass that will cut 2% tons per acre. If I had dropped off on fertilizers for the 
past two years, my grass would have been poor stuff. At present prices for hay, 
an acre of grass is one of the most profitable things on the farm. You might say 
that we might have saved by putting less fertilizer on the potatoes, and then 
applying more directly to the wheat and grass. All that I can say is that our 
plan of crowding it upon the potato crop has always given us the best general 
satisfaction.” 
“ But how did you manage to sell $1,000 worth of potatoes last year at those 
awful prices ? ” 
“I sold them as fast as they were dug, and took my chances. Prices seemed 
low then—30 and 40 cents per bushel—and many farmers laughed at me for 
selling. I knew, however, just about what potatoes cost me, and felt sure that 
including the past year of 1896. 
any price above 25 cents was profit. This is a time for small profits, and I took 
what I could get. Some of those who held potatoes for higher prices are holding 
them yet! ” 
“ Have you not cut down your fertilizers on account of the hard times ? ” 
“ No, sir ; there was no falling off in the amount of fertilizers applied in 1895. 
Our total outlay for fertilizers in 1895 was $681.11, or an average of $6 81 for each 
acre on the farm. You will notice that the total gross income was $26 72 per acre.” 
“ But have you not used a lower grade fertilizer ? ” 
“No, I use the same brand that I always have. This is no time to cut down on 
quality. If the high-grade goods are cheapest in good times, they are even more 
desirable in hard times. My reason for keeping up to the mark with fertilizers 
in these hard seasons is that I cannot afford to take any chances on poor crops.” 
LARGE PROFIT IN STRAWBERRIES, ETC. 
Highest Quality of Fruit—Unusually Heavy Yield- 
Fourteen to Fifteen Acres. Over 6,000 Quarts Strawberries (Varieties: 
Bubach, Warfie d, Wolverton and Gandy) per Acre. Large 
Prices Realized Blackberries and Raspberries. 
Mr. J. A. Davis, of Greensboro, Md., reports December 9, 1896 : “The Mapes 
Fruit and Vine Manure has given me better satisfaction than any I have ever 
used. I apply 1,000 pounds per acre at the time of setting the plants. I picked 
not less than six thousand (6,000) quarts of strawberries to the acre. This fertilizer 
is equally good for blackberries and raspberries. For a general land strengthener 
this fertilizer surpasses any I ever used before.” 
Mr. L. Shanley Davis, commission merchant, 100 Barclay Street, New York, 
who handled 52,100 quarts of the fruit shipped to New York by J. A. Davis, 
Greensboro, Md., reports: “The average price received for season 1896 for the 
Davis strawberries was eight and three-quarters (8 %) cents net per quart. This 
was two to three cents above the market price for berries during the season. The 
blackberries were of the Lucretia Dewberry variety. These were also very fine 
and sold during the season from eight (8) to twelve (12) cents per quart.” 
In spite of the hard times and the past season of so-called disastrously low prices of farm produce there are many 
growers of potatoes, wheat, hay, strawberries and even apples, who have used the Mapes Manures exclusively for long 
periods of years who “weathered the storm” of the past depression in prices, and had the same experience as related 
above by Mr. Lewis and Mr. Davis, who have purchased as much of the Mapes Manures for use in 1897 as in any 
previous years. 
Says the American Agriculturist, March 13, 1897, in commenting on the Mapes Manures: “It is in times like these 
that more than ever the BEST is the CHEAPEST.” 
Descriptive Pamphlet Mailed Free.— This pamphlet contains full descriptions of the Mapes Manures, with full directions up to 
date, embracing the practical methods used by the most successful growers of potato, farm crops, in renovating grass and clover 
lands, and growing of truck, vegetables, tobacco and fruits, strawberries, orchards, etc. 
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