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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 23, 190l 
MAPES 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 lasting 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 buUd 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 tne right methods of culture and fertilizers. This statement is borne out by 
other experiences cited in the work referred to. 
Farms Constantly Crow Stronger. Experience with Mapes Manures Over 30 Years 
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 the 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. 
As we have previously remarked, our own experience, extending through a period of over 30 years, has always shown the Mapes fertilizers to be invariably 
satisfactory, on the truck farm and in the garden, as well as in the field, orchard and meadow. 
My Farm is Cetting 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 getting 
richer every year. We have found the MAPES MANURES equally good for grass, potatoes, corn and o.'chard trees. 
Farms Steadiiy Improved and Crops Doubied 
[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 16 years, farmers, truck growers and fruit growers report their lands as having steadily im¬ 
proved in condition, and their crops as double those formerly grown, while the quality of the crops has greatly improved, and their profits largely increased. 
IVIapes Spring Top-Dressing 
For TOP-DRESSING in Spring, all kinds of grass lands. Pastures, Mowing lands. Golf Links, Lawns, etc. Use two to three bags per acre broadcast, by 
hand or machine. On poor land use three bags per acre. Pastures, I'imothy, etc., apparently worn out, have been brought up into good condition by a sin¬ 
gle application. Quality of grasses greatly improved. 
Restore your Meadows and Grass Lands by Simply Top*Dressing 
It is lasting in ettects equally with the best stable manure, but at the same time it is quicker and more effective on the crop. Its introduction some 
years since marked a new era FOR RESTORING GRASS LANDS WITHOUT PLOWING. 
This manure corresponds closely in composition with the best stable manure, and is from 25 to 30-fold more concentrated in soluble and available 
plant food. Contains no weed seed, no disagreeable odor, requires no skill in its use—simply scattering evenly over the surface and working in when prac¬ 
ticable. On lawns, grass lands and around fruit and other trees it can be left exposed, the rains will wash it in and no loss of strength will occur through 
exposure to sun, air, etc. 
It is EXACTLY ADAPTED also to the wants of the owner of a small plot for fertilizing lawns, vegetable gardens, fruit and ornamental trees, hedges, 
etc. On vegetable gardens use at the rate of five bags and upward per acre. 
The Mapes Potato Manure 
Dr. Collier, Director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, on the Large Yields of Potatoes Grown Only With the Mapes Manure at 
Rural Farm. “Who can doubt,” says Dr. Collier, who was one of the judges in the R. N.-Y. Potato Contest, “that the great yield of Potatoes secured at 
the rate of 645 bushels to the acre of one variety, and 1,076 bushels of another variety, under the conditions of soil and climate obtaining in the locality 
where the trial was made, was due wholly to the fertilizers applied and the method of cultivation employed?” 
NOT A SUPERPHOSPHATE WANTED. 
E. S. Carman, of The Rural New-Yorker, in commenting upon the large yield of Potatoes obtained by him at the Rural Farm, and his Trench method 
and the Mapes Potato Manure, concludes: “But we don’t want a ‘phosphate’ or ‘superphosphate’ or an Ammoniated Superphosphate, or a ‘Swiftsure,’ or 
anything of the kind. We want a high-grade Potato manure.” 
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The highest prices obtained for tobacco crops In Massachusetts and Connecticut reported In the press the past year, 1900, grown with the MAPES 
TOBACCO MANURES. Descriptive pamphlets, prices, etc., sent on application. Also new Florida pamphlet on Orange growing, care of groves, etc. Per¬ 
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