[September, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1883.] 
MAPES’ COMPLETE MANURE—“A” BRAND. 
This Manure is FINE and DRY, admirably adapted FOR DRILLING. May be applied by hand or 
machine, in drill or broadcast. For the most profitable results, use at least two bags per acre. 
Bringing up land from a capacity of 11 bushels of wheat to the acre (when helped with ground bone) to 34) bushels per acre 
(average of 13 acres), by the use of the Mapes Complete Manures during past six years. Used not over 400 lb>. per acre. 
Improvement in the grass. Uncertain and unsatisfactory action of superphosphates and low-priced fertilizers. They 
start otf the crop, and on strong land sometimes bring out a crop, but they are short-lived and do not improve the land. 
“ Use my yard manure on my corn ground, and my potatoes, wheat, rye and grass are grown with the Mapes Complete 
Manures.” 
JOHN S. V00RIIEES, Monmouth Junction, Middlesex Co., N. J., July 5th. 1883, reports— 
“ Six years of practical experience in using the Mapes Manures for wheat and seeding down for grass, and, in fact, on all my crops, makes me a strong believer in the special 
advantages of Complete Manures over superphosphates, etc, I have, many times, doubled and often produced a greater increase of wheat and oilier crops at a cost for the Mapes 
Manures which left an overwhelming profit in favor of the use of this class of manures. When I first began on this farm I used * * * ground bone, and raised 11 bushels of 
wheat to the acre. Since using the Mapes Complete Manures, not over 400 lbs. per acre drilled in with tin' grain, I have gradually increased my a'op, till last year the average of 
13 acres of wheat was 34!/4 dw-s/tcfs to tte acre. 1 notice, too, that the Mapes Manures help my grass, as places in the field where we failed to apply the fertilizers in sowing the 
wheat the difference in the appearance in the grass is plain to he seen. On my wheat and rye I use the Mapes ‘ A ’ Brand and the Heavy Soil Complete Manures, but I think as a 
permanent improver of the soil the Heavy Soil Manure will pay even better than the ‘ A’ Brand. 1 have watched the action of superphosphates as used by different farmers, but 
my experience is they are short-lived. They start the crop oft' well, and if the soil is strong turn out a fair crop : but as for permanently improving the land, or growing even the 
first crop on light lands, they are not certain like a Complete Manure, neither does the grass crop turn out so satisfactory after using a phosphate on wheat as it does when the 
Mapes Complete Manures are used. What yard manure I make goes on my corn ground, and my potatoes, wheat, rye and grass are grown with the Mapes Complete Manures.” 
Price per Ton, $42.00. (Packed In EBags 200 Iks.) IVo Charge for Cartage. 
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