[February, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST: 
1883 .] 
SEASON 1882.-VARIED, EARLY ROSE.” 
Copies of letters, received, from Mr. Jesse L. Delano, author of the Prize Essay on Potato Culture, publico ' Transactions of Franklin County, Mass., Agricultural Society, 1S81 
Sunderland, Mass., October 17th, 18S2. 
Dear Sirs I am now in a condition to report in regard to the effects of The Mapes Potato Fertilizer. I took iour separate p of land of equal size. The land was all sim¬ 
ilar, in the same condition as near as could be taken. Planted all pieces April 19th, and gave them the same cultivation and care. The result ».iv’ follows: 
First piece.—I gave good strong manure from the barn-yard, at the rate of 40 two-horse 
loads to the acre, one-half plowed in and one-half put in the drill.' 
Second piece.—I gave Mapes Manure, at the rate of 800 lbs. to the acre, one-half harrowed 
in and one-half put in the drill. 
Third piece.— I gave Mapes Manure, at the rate of 1.000 lbs. to the acre, one-half harrowed 
in and one-half put in the drill. 
Fourth piece.—I planted without aDy fertilizer of any kind whatsoever. 
First piece.— Yielded at rate of 220 bushels per ac?e. The potatoes were, however, 
quite badly cut bv the wire-worms and grubs, and quite rough. 
Second piece.—Yielded at rate of 316 bushels per acre, of nice, large, smooth potatoes. 
Third piece.— Yielded at rate of 340 bushels per acre, of very large and smooth pota¬ 
toes, with very few unmarketable ones. 
Fourth piece.—Yielded at rate of 140 bushels per acre, and a good many small ones 
among them, though smoother than on first piece. 
From the foregoing I draw, that with high manuring 1 obtained SO bushels per acre more than where no manure was used, but with Mapes Potato Manure I obtained 176 and 
200 bushels per acre more than where.no manure was used. This is the fourth year I have used Mapes Manure, and I am more and more satisfied that it is the best thing to raise 
potatoes with in the market. / (Signed,) JESSE 1.. DELANO. 
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