1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Prices Reduced 1896—Standard Fully Maintained. 
THE MAPES MANURES 1 
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For Corn, Potatoes, Tobacco, Cauliflowers, Cabbages, 
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Celery, Late Truck, Corn Fodder, Hungarian Crass, 
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Mangolds, Turnips, Fruit Trees, Gherkins, Hops, Etc- 
THESE MANURES CAN BE APPLIED AT PLANTING AS A TOP-DRESSING, OR AT HOEING. THEY WILL 
SUFFER LITTLE, IF ANY , LOSS OF STRENGTH BY EXPOSURE ON THE GROUND. 
THE MAPES MANURES AT THE AGRICULTURAL 
EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
[From the American Agriculturist, March 30, 1895.J 
The Mapes Fertilizers have long been recognized as the standard in 
quality. Mr. Mapes, like his father, Prof. Mapes, before him, has been a 
leader in developing the manufacture of fertilizers of the highest grade. 
He believes that the best fertilizers are the cheapest, and demonstrates this 
by the analyses of his goods, not only for the present year, but for a long 
series of years. In every case the Mapes fertilizers are found to contain 
even more actual plant food than is stated in their guarantee, so that they 
can always be depended upon to give value received. As to their crop-pro¬ 
ducing power, and the profit that follows the use of the Mapes manures, 
thousands of farmers testify in the most emphatic manner. The books of 
the Mapes Company contain an immense fund of practical and valuable 
information on the whole subject of fertility, and can be consulted to ad¬ 
vantage by every farmer. Mr. Mapes has long been careful to employ not 
only the best materials in making the Mapes manures, but to supply the 
nitrogen, particularly, in various forms, so as not only to give the crop a 
good start, but back it up as the season advances. The importance of this 
matter is emphasized by the article, on page 6 of this issue, on the crop- 
producing power of nitrogen in different forms. It will be noticed that the 
difference between average cost and chemist’s valuation of these goods is 
only half as much as with the ordinal'll fertilizers. 
[From Massachusetts Ploughman, March, 1895.] 
THE MAPES CORN MANURE. 
The Mapes Corn Manure excels all the leading competitors in the reports 
of the Connecticut State Agricultural Experiment Station for 1894 and 1895. 
The important ingredients of these fertilizers are soluble and efficient. They 
act quickly, and give good value received for the cost. The phosphoric 
acid, for instance, is derived from bone and Peruvian guano, the most costly, 
yet the most soluble substances. The farmer can afford to use such ferti¬ 
lizers, however hard the times may be. 
Alva It. Blodgett, East Windsor, Conn., writes under date of September 
25, 1894: “ This spring I had a seven-acre field of worn-out mowing piece 
that I plowed and planted to corn quite late in the season. On four acres of 
this field I used one ton of Mapes Corn Manure, and on the remaining three 
acres, for the novelty of the thing, I used cotton-seed meal and-’s mixed 
formula for corn. I saw scarcely any difference between the formula and 
cotton-seed meal, but on the four acres where Mapes Corn Manure was used, 
the growth was ’way ahead, and I believe as large a growth as I ever had. 
I feel very well satisfied if I can grow two ears on a stalk. I found one 
stalk that had six ears on it With the Mapes Corn Manure I find it profit¬ 
able to grow corn, and, I believe, farmers makeaa mistake in not growing 
more corn than they do.” 
[From the American Cultivator, April 37, 1895.] 
THE MAPES CORN MANURE. 
Many farmers who have an insufficient supply of barnyard manure can 
profitably raise all the Indian corn they desire to cultivate by using Mapes 
Corn Manure. For a long series of years and on a great variety of soils, 
enterprising farmers have grown magnificent crops of corn by the use of 
this well-balanced fertilizer. Many years of experience and observation 
have taught the Mapes Company how to select the best ingredients for plant 
food, and how to supply a corn manure that is at once soluble, available, 
efficient and economical. 
[From the American Agriculturist, March, 1895.] 
THE MAPES CORN MANURE 
Makes it possible to raise corn at hard-times prices. Many farmers who 
have not sufficient stable manure, are able to raise all the corn they want 
by using Mapes Corn Manure. Many astonishingly large crops have been 
grown on this fertilizer for a long series of years on a great variety of soils. 
It is made of the best ingredients, and furnishes the plant with the needed 
food, both at the start and as the season advances. Farmers who are not 
posted on the modern methods of corn culture with fertilizers should by all 
means consult the Mapes advertisement in our last issue, send for Professor 
Mapes’s pamphlet, and try an acre or more with the Mapes Corn Manure. 
CORN. 
G. H. Pearson writes in The Rural New-Yorker, June, 1895: “ An¬ 
other four acres I plowed a year ago, and during the winter hauled about 80 
loads of stable manure on acres. I planted one acre of early cabbage 
and two of late, which gave me more money than anything else. The other 
three-fourths of an acre (one-fourth was very wet ground, and corn did not 
do well) I planted to corn, used 1,300 pounds of Mapes corn manure, and 
got 130 bushels of ears ; variety, Longfellow. Sweet corn did well with the 
same fertilizer.” 
CORN OVER 200 BUSHELS PER ACRE.— 213 bushels SHELLED 
Corn per acre ; New York, 800 pounds Mapes Corn Manure. Cost of manuring, 
$18.50 ; cost of cultivating, $36.50. Yates County. 
Of this crop, grown with the Mapes Corn Manure exclusively, the 
American Agriculturist says (page 126, March number, 1890 : “ If we allow 
only $15 as the value of the tops for fodder, and make no account of bottom 
stalks, the cost comes within 20 cents a bushel (shelled corn).” 
One hundred and nineteen bushels per acre ; New York, 800 pounds of 
the Mapes Corn Manure. Westchester County. 
The largest crop grown in the American Agriculturist Contest with 
fertilizers other than the Mapes (45 in all) was 84 bushels (chemically dried, 
60 bushels). 
CABBAGE AND CAULIFLOWER. 
[From the Practical Farmer, December 14, 1895.] 
TOPIC No. 184.—WHAT FERTILIZERS WILL BEST TAKE THE PLACE OF STABLE 
MANURE IN MARKET GARDENING, AND IN WHAT WAY HAVE 
YOU FOUND IT MOST PROFITABLE TO USE THEM ? 
I find the Mapes Complete Manures for special crops take the place of 
stable manure, and give better results than I can obtain from stable 
manure, and they are more easily and quickly applied. For cabbage and 
cauliflower, I break a clover sod in the fall; and in the spring, when we fit 
the ground, we apply one ton per acre of the Mapes Cauliflower and Cabbage 
Manure, broadcast, and harrow it in. When plants are well started, we 
sow about half a ton per acre between the rows, and cultivate it in. For 
potatoes, we use from half a ton to one ton of the Mapes Potato Manure per 
acre, sowing it in the furrow before we plant the seed, and mix with one 
horse walking in the furrow and dragging two log chains. For corn, I drop 
some in the hill, and mix with a hoe. Tomatoes, beets, radishes, celery, 
etc., sow broadcast and harrow in, and make frequent applications around 
the plants, working it in. All fertilizers should be well mixed with the soil. 
Margaretsville, N. Y. w. F. van benschoten. 
TOBACCO. 
[From the Connecticut Farmer, (Hartford, Conn.), December 14, 1895.J 
FERTILIZERS FOR TOBACCO. 
RESULTS OBTAINED AT THE CONNECTICUT EXPERIMENT STATION. 
The experiments in growing tobacco with different fertilizers at the 
Connecticut station in 1894 resulted: Castor pomace, cotton-seed meal, 
linseed meal, tobacco stems, nitrate of soda, dry fish, cotton hull ashes, 
double sulphate of potash and magnesia, carbonate of potash, high grade 
sulphate of potash, double carbonate of potash and magnesia, wood ashes, 
and several brands of fertilizers were tested in various combinations. Castor 
pomace and cotton-seed meal afforded practically the same yield. Of the 
potash salts, double sulphate of potash and magnesia gave the best results. 
This is the continuation of an experiment reported in the annual report 
of the station for 1893. The yields of unfermented tobacco are tabulated 
and briefly discussed, a full discussion being postponed until after five 
successive crops shall have been raised, cured, and fermented. 
The maximum yield, 2,115 pounds of sorted tobacco, was obtained by 
the use of a mixture of 2,200 pounds of the Mapes (Wrapper Brand) tobacco 
manure, and 600 pounds of the Mapes Tobacco Starter, per acre. 
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