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The two Largest Crops ever grown with Fertilizers or Manure grown with 
THE MAPES POTATO MANURE 
In Puze Contest, 1890. 847 Bushels 33 Pounds of Potatoes Grown on one measured acre with the Mapes Potato Manure. 
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The Grower, R. A. Chisholm, Del Norte, Col., writes Oct. With, 1890; 
Pr,ze Aere - ,' vl ' k ' h ' vaK harvested on the -6th of October, nml yielded 
i Il) s* * hjs.l am happy to say, Is largely due to Mapes Potato Manure. You will remem 
1,1K0 lb8, of yon> and 1 ais° tola you that with the above amount of your ferill zer 
I was satisfied I could beat last year’s record with the Stockbridge manure. With this puriwse and vou? liberal 
prize in view I have spared no pains to give your manure a fair trial: how far I succeeded the above viel l wl 
p«rm/ or ,8elf ‘ As a P rac,1 ! a i ^rdener I have been using fertilizers many yea' s to Scotland. I Imve uie 
i ^ K«ono on rav fat her’s farm 18 years ago. but In all n y experienc. 1 have never seen such magnificent 
Sgff« £ om an >' fertilizer before. I am sat Is tied that I can raise wuxi lbs. on this samlaire with a ton or vour 
Potato Manure next year. They were photographed In the middle of July, when they were In full bloMom^ 
TIIE 31 APES POT4TO 31 INURE USED THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST 
AND BY ONLY THREE 
the vines standing walst-hfgh. 1 have sent a full report to the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, so that you will 
anytime * Sh ° n nOCe ’ A " y ,nfonnal l on >' ou would like to have about this acre will be cheerfully given at 
Again, on Oct. 80th, 1S90, Mr. Chisholm writes : 
■ answer as to the average yield of potatoes to the acre, and prices In our section, I will say tha r without 
°, f !U1 - V k,n<1 tke ajer-ige per acre Is from 12.000 to It,"00 tbs. (2* 0 to 981 bushels), with barnyard manure 
a< v7't ?J2’ 0u > >8, to bufhelsi. In last yea r ’s contest the sixth prize was won by 
The yield was 191 bushels. 40 lbs. My yield with the Mapes 
i,' 1 .' 1 !*' Mnnurt(t.Otsi lbs.) Is 84714 bushels, n difference of 856 bushels lOlbs In favor of the Mapes Potato Manure. 
Potatoes have been selling this fall as high as *1.25 per 100 lbs., and even * .50 by the car load. 
TIME IN AROOSTOOK COUNTY TO THE EXTENT OF ONLY THREE TONS 
GROWERS: THE RESULT 
745 
THE LARGEST CROP EVER CROWN IN AROOSTOOK COUNTY. 
BUSHELS 25 POUNDS OF POTATOES ON ONE ACRE, BEING THE SECOND LARGEST CROP EVER GROWN WITH FERTILIZERS. 
It should h® uoted County, Maine, this year, as well as last, the season was exceptionally favorable for potatoes and many laree crons 
The ^ A , INE * states of the 1890 Maine Crop, “ 400 bushels are reported as the common yield. Mr. John Burnham Sherman harvested 
5 ,1 w? el ® I™.™ a single acre and there was no particular effort made for a great crop either. Twenty-five cents a bushel is the price paid.” 
, ^ e wish to call special attention to the fact that last year none of the Mapes Potato Manure had been used, and that this year only three tons were used • 
?n late SSveaTT P the LARGEST CHOP EVER GROWN IN AROOSTOOK COUNTY,'exceeding by 140 busSels any other ™opgrown 
,^, T ? e rf^ 0 ^ 0 ^2l ,s 'mmense crop Mr. Philo H. Reed, Fort Fairfield, Aroostook Co.. Maine, in the following 
Herrhik^of Uie Rnnie place 8 l ° thC ° thCr tW0 U8ers of the Ma P es Potato Manure, E. A. Weybrant and Nelson 
^^ d f^ nd ’ and *2 re B ly wm say that my prize acre turned out remarkably well. I har¬ 
vested <4o bushels and 2.) Ills (seven hundred and forty five bushels and twenty five pounds) beating Cov's 1SS9 
crop by seven bushels. Mine were harvested in dry. pleasant weather and they werethe most froelrom .llrt of 
. I ^l t ‘it 8 n aw . a . nd H le nu ; Ht remarkable thing about It was that 709 31-60 bushels were merchantable 
P2 t nI? eS ‘.,i-c° < lHi} 15 i po,at ?«n f0 i ra i 1U8h ^l as an average of the merchantable potatoes; one potato weighed 
854 lbs,, and i6of the largest filled a flour barrel. They were all sound and very smooth, and the finest eating 
fh > in t SifIr e fV«L 8a c V 'i I ^ dll8eud , you a sample of them If you like. I applied 1,950 lbs. of your fertilizer, 1.200 in 
the drill at ttaie of planting, and the balance before hilling. I took out 50 lbs. to test It with other fertilizers. I 
also raised i bushels and 48 lbs. of hill Basket potatoes from one-half pound of seed by the use of your fertil¬ 
izer. 
You 
that __________ „ cmtE , tuwiuc 
did not «ome no very well, so they gave it up and diTnorhave'the’lVgrbunS^measured!"’funderstantf Herrick 1 
raised I8.i barrels of ifi.j lbs. (equal to 508(51 bushels) and Weybrant a little less, nut Weybrant raised more on bis 
write you n</ t l ° ri ' lIly three other acres beside It. 1 will find out all the particulars about their crops and 
Mr. E. A. Weybrant, Fort Fairfield, Me., Nov. 1st, 189(1. writes : 
I would say that your Potato Manure is all that you claimed It to be. 1 got a very large yield of potatoes. 
Jhey discouraging when they first came up, and I did not know that r had any right to put In 
extra mils to take the place of the missed ones, so did not: if 1 had done as some of the rest did I thl ’ 
yield would have been great. Am going to try It again next year.” 
think my 
The American Agriculturist Prize.-Potato Growing Contests 1889 and 1890. 
We will issue in a few weeks an Illustrated and Descriptive Pamphlet containing extracts from the Agricultural Press on this remarkable contest. 
HOW LARCE AND PROFITABLE CROPS OF POTATOES MAY BE GROWN. 
ALL REC ORDS IN POTATO CROWING WITH FARM MANURE ON FERTILIZER BROKEN BY THE MAPES POTATO MANURE. 
o he !! Ve ^ e t D S 1 ta , te8 L ln Which the Iargest cr ° p grown in the State iu the one-acre PRIZE CONTEST was with commercial fertilizers. Ten crops. 847, 745, 609,'532, 479, 460, 428, 
THE MAPES POTATO MANURE. 
390, 353 and 324 bushels per acre were 
grown exclusively with 
The two lap Ke8t crops grown with barnyard manure were 434 and 375 bushels. Also 0,135 bushels grown with the Mapes Potato Manure on a 20-acre field (Freehold, New 
Jersey) Season, 1890. Yields per acre in this field 294. 318 and 453 bushels. Also 
The two largest crops ever grown with fertilizers or manure grown with THE MAPES POTATO MANURE used alone Season inao 
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