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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 1, 1905. 
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FERTILIZERS. 
THE OLDEST 
AMERICA. 
THE 
IVIAPES COMPLETE MANURES 
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Contain the Highest Grade Materials and the Most 
Soluble^ and Valuable Plant-Food Forms Known. 
No 1 Pure Peruvian Guano Rectified (by our special treatment to improve its solubility, WITHOUT ACIDITY), 
nitrate of potash, carbonate of potash, nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, etc., etc Without knowledge of the sources 
or character of the materials used in making a mixed fertilizer the chemist is unable to determine the plant food value of 
th.6 ingredients, particularly organic nitrogen, phosphoric acid insoluble, and all forms of potash. 
(From the American Agriculturist, March 18,1905.) 
High Grrade Fertilizers Cheapest. 
Au empty wagon with a 100-pound bag of the highest grade of commercial fertilizer as a cnshion on the driver’s seat, will contain more soluble 
and available plant food than 4000 pounds of stable manure of good average quality! In other woids, 100 pounds of high grade fertilizer contains 
as much of the available elements of plant food as two tons ot good stable manure, and as much as three tons of farm yard manure distended with 
straw, cornstalks and with more or less of its fertility leached away. 
These remarkable facts can be put in another v ay: The amount of soluble and available plant food in one ton of high grade fertilizers like hlmes 
Top Dresser, and in a ton of good farm manure, as follows: u mcphoricAdd. pot.„h. 
2000 Pounds Top Dresser. 240 160 80 
2000 Pounds Farm Manure.3 to 4 5 5 
It will be seen that the fertilizer is over 60 times stronger in soluble ammonia, 32 times in phosphoric acid, and 16 times in potash, allowing that 
one half ot th phosphoric acid and potash contained in the manure is soluble and available, which is really too high. 
Land at Rothamsted cropped with wheat continuously for 30 years averaged 36 bushels of grain and 48 cwt. of straw per acre per year on the 
field which received a total of 6000 pounds per acre of nitrogen in the form of farm manure during this period, but the yield was fully as good where 
only 2400 pounds per acre of nitrogen had been applied in the form of sulphate of ammonia. Thus 3600 pounds of nitrogen from the manure was lost 
ia the air, or by leaching, or some of it was left in the soil but was unavailable for the crop. This was an average loss of nearly 120 pounds of nitrogen 
per acre per year, a loss of say $16 to $20 an acre in each and every t eason for 30 years! 
Hence the importance of soluble plant food which the crop can utilize T1 is is the portion so essential for fruit, vegetables, tobacco and other 
special crops that require strong, vigorous growth-forcing. Especially is availability important on light soils, where the greatest danger is to be 
apprehended from injudicious fertilization, yet these are the very soils that are best adapted for many of the crops mentioned, and when properly 
fertilized, will yield large crops of such quality as to be peculiarly profitable. 
The highest possible perfection of quality in flavor keeping power for shipment, and other attributes that go to make up perfection in tobacco 
vegetables, etc, can also be obtained most certainly only by supplying the plants with food in the right foims and from ideal sources as in the highest 
grade fertilizers, like Mapes. 
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