[March, AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 1883.] 
Remarkable Results ^ Mapes Potato Manure. 
NINE ACRES OF POTATOES-SIX CAREFUL TESTS. 
J. H. & R. C. COOK, Cook Stock Farm, Clinton, Conn., January 22d, 1883, report: 
CROP POTATOES, Burbank's Seedling, planted second week in June, in drills 30 inches apart—all the seed home raised and cut alike. NINE ACRES, divided into six 
equal parts (IX acres each), all alike in fertility, character of soil, and drainage. EACH PLOT given the same treatment with plow, cultivator, and hoe. $36 WORTH of 
Manure or Fertilizer used on each plot, excepting No. 4, which received no Manure. 
IX Acres. 
Manure. 
How Applied. 
Quality of Crop. 
Yield on IX Ac 
1. 
Mapes’ Potato. 
In the drills. 
Large, smooth, excellent cooking quality. 
340 Bushels. 
2. 
Fine Barn-yard. 
Plowed under. 
Medium size, lacking in smoothness and quality. 
147 “ 
3. 
-Guano. 
In the drills. 
Good potatoes, but not so good as Nos. 1 and 5. 
186 “ 
4. 
No Manure. 
Natural soil. 
Small and poor potatoes. 
’ =- 119 “ 
5. 
Mapes’ Potato. 
In the drills. 
Most excellent, equal to plot No. 1. 
339 “ 
6. 
Fine Barn-yard. 
Broadcasted after planting. 
Medium size, lacking in smoothness and quality, compared with 1 and 5.* 
189 “ 
-* This result 
may have been partly due 
to the Manure acting as a mulch. 
The potatoes planted with the Mapes also remained green much longer than those with-Guano and Barn-yard Manure. The Mapes-grown potatoes are pronounced by all as 
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