1905 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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THE TWO WORLD’S 
RECORD CORN CROPS 
Described in “THE BOOK OF CORN.” ORANGE JUDD CO., 1903 
Under Direction of HERBERT MYRICK. 
First Crop, Z. J. Drake, Marlborough Co., S. C. 
BUSHELS (GREEN WEIGHT). BUSHELS (CRIB CURED). TOTAL EXPENSE. NET EXPENSE PER BUSHEL 
Yield, one acre, 256 239 $264 44 cents. 
fertilizer and manure used on one acre: 1,000 bushels stable manure, 4,800 lbs. Manipulated Guano, 1,800 lbs. Cotton Seed Meal, 400 lbs. Bone and Acid 
Phosphate, lop dressing in May: 400 lbs. Nitrate of Soda. Total, 7,400 lbs. fertilizer in addition to the stable manure. Variety corn, Southern White Dent. 
Second Crop, Alfred Rose, Yates County, New York 
BUSHELS (GREEN WEIGHT). BUSHELS (CRIB CURED). TOTAL EXPENSE. 
Yield, one acre, 213 191 $62 
Fertilizer used on one acre: 800 lbs. Mapes corn Manure alone. No stable manure. Soil, sandy loam. 
—From The American Agriculturist. 
NET EXPENSE PER BUSHEL 
16 cents. 
Variety corn, Early Mastodon. 
The Great Corn Contest of the American Agriculturist 
^45 Crops in All) 
Crops 213, 119, and 95 bushels each ; grown on one measured acre exclusively with the Mapes Corn Manure. 
Of tins great crop, 213 bushels, shelled corn, grown in Yates County, N. Y., with the Mapes Corn Manure (800 pounds per acre) 
exclusively, the American Agriculturist says: “If we allow only $15 as the value of the tops for fodder, and make no account of bottom 
stalks, the cost comes within twenty cents a bushel (shelled corn).” 
I he largest crop grown with fertilizers other than the Mapes (45 crops in all) was 84 bushels (chemically dried, 60 bushels). 
Some large crops grown with the Mapes Corn Manure, and reported in the agricultural press: 
, *’ 040 , bush ?! s of corn (ears) on less than 4^ acres, equal to 233^ bushels, or 116J4 bushels shelled corn, per acre, grown on farm of Rural New-Yorker, 
witn the Mapes Lorn Manure. 
Ninety bushels (shelled) with 500 pounds per acre. 150 bushels (shelled) with 600 pounds per acre. Value of grain alone over five times as much as 
the cost of the fertilizer.— American Agriculturist. 
New Yorker hl ' ndred a " d fifty_six bushe,s (ears) on four acres - 159 - 37 bllsheIs on one acre. 125.37 bushels on one acre. Nothing used but the Mapes.— Rural 
On two acres, 600 pounds of Mapes alone, broadcast, 198 bushels shelled corn. On three acres, same fertilizer, same quantity, 489 bushels (ears) Grown 
by Dr. Henry Stewart. —New England Homestead. 
One hundred and eighty bushels of ears per acre; shelled, 98.45 bushels. 2,058 bushels (ears) on 16 acres. Only Mapes (800 pounds per acre) used — 
Connecticut Farmer. 
CORN A RENOVATING CROP 
From the American Agriculturist 
Hie Mapes Corn Manure alone was used on the large crops recently described in American Agriculturist, but such yields are possible 
only by an exceptional combination of season, sunshine, moisture, soil, texture and fertilization, and by the use of seed that will produce two or 
more ears per stalk. Corn is a comparatively sure crop, and Prof. Mapes says that, with judicious fertilization, it can be made a renovating 
crop and not an exhausting crop as is generally supposed, bringing up the land to good condition for grass or general crops, besides making 
money from the start, and having the field left clean and free of weeds. 
In sending for pamphlets, please state the crops in which you are particularly interested. 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO GO. 
143 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK 
(From (he American Agriculturist, February 4th, 1905.) 
GOOD WORK WELL DONE 
What a satisfaction there is to both the producer and the consumer of a good article! To harvest a big yield of lovely smooth potatoes is a positive joy. 
louejcpenence it again when you sell them, because the buyer shares your enthusiasm, and you know that every time they come smoking hot upon his table 
well done W ' 3 J °' n y ° Ur ° Wn sat ‘ s * act ' un - 1 be same > s true of choice fruits, other produce, or live stock. It is the satisfaction that comes from good work 
1 his same satisfied feeling is entertained by those who use the same fertilizer year after year because of the profitable results they derive from the invest- 
• V it be any of the Mapes manures, for instance, the farmer, gardener, fruit grower or trucker consumes them in quantities from one ton to 1000 tons 
uneie are single cultivators who actually use more than 1,000 tons of Mapes manure) one year with another, with absolute certainty of crop results, weather and 
culture permitting. Farmers have learned by experience that the merits of the Mapes manures can be depended upon every time. 
Not only that, but great numbers of specialists and farmers have come to feel a personal regard for Professor Charles V. Mapes that is as deserved as 
we know it is appreciated. The Mapes idea, in business is to do just as near right as human power can accomplish—to use only materials of the best quality; to 
blend them in the manner which practice and science prove to be wisest, to manufacture the goods in the most perfect way, to sell them at only a fair profit^ and 
to trive the trade and consumers such service that one and all shall be eminently pleased with the Mapes manures, not alone this year but every year. A different 
policy might enable Prof. Mapes to earn larger dividends for awhile, for in the Mapes manures you get 100 cents in value for every dollar, but it would not comport 
with his ideas of satisfaction or yours. 
Prof. Mapes continues to devote much attention to so preparing catalogs of Mapes manures for various classes of crops that they shall be a practical guide 
to the use of fertilizers and an epitome of the progress of knowledge about fertilization. The Mapes booklets for 1905 will be found as indispensable as ever 
alike to the large or small consumer of fertilizers or to the novice. 
