[April, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1883.] 
The Mapes Manures on Oats, Barley, and Wheat. 
FIVE YEARS’ EXPERIENCE. — Oats, 80 batsliels; Wheat, 40 hmsliels, and Barley 50 bushels per acre. 
B. F. BEATTY, Sherwoods. Cayuga Co., N. Y., January 23, 1883, writes: 
I have used your fertilizers for a number of years, and the “A” Brand ever since you originated the formula. 1 find it adapted to all kinds of soil and a great variety of crops. 
I have experimented with nearly all of the fertilizers that have been thrown on the market, and I find the “A” Brand more reliable than anything I have used. Its solubility 
an.! 
IMPROVEMENT TO THE LAND. 
“ I find when I have used the Mapes Complete Manure year after year in succession, the soil growing better and better, and the crops grow better.” 
“ All my neighbors say they get the most money from the Mapes Manures.” Robinson Gokdox, Manorville, Suffolk Co., N. Y 
For Descriptive Pamphlet, containing reports (season 1882) from practical farmers on Early Vegetables, Potatoes, Onions, Tobacco, Fruit Trees, and nearly evt 
. postal to 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO COMPANY, 158 Front St,, New York. 
the different forms of nitrogen in its composition, make it readily available to the wants of the growing crop, and its benefits are especially seen in the after crops of grass. 
My wheat crop is seldom less than 30, and often runs to 40 bushels per acre; in one instance reaching 46 bushels per acre. 
Mr. Beatty wrote August 29th, 1882: “ I have threshed one field of my wheat of 14)4 acres. It will go about 40 bushels per acre. My barley will go over 60 bushels per acre, and 
oats over 80 bushels.” 
Mr. Beatty has a large grain farm, and reports his land as steadily improving and producing larger crops each year with the use of the Mapes Manures 
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