*Ine 
Mapes Complete Manures 
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), Bone, 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 the ingredients, particularly organic nitrogen, phosphoric 
acid insoluble, and all forms of potash. 
Average of all published analyses of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations 
for the past fifteen years (1895 to 1909, inclusive): 
Mapes Potato Manure.Average Found.... 
Guaranteed Analysis 
Mapes Vegetable or Complete Manure 
for Light Soils.Average Found.. 
Guaranteed Analysis 
Mapes Corn Manure.Average Found. 
Guaranteed Analysis 
MapesAverage Soil Complete Manure Average Found. 
Guaranteed Analysis 
Mapes Fruit and Vine Manure.Average Found. 
Guaranteed Analysis 
Mapes Wrapper Brand Tobacco.Average Found. 
Guaranteed Analysis 
Mapes Complete Manure “A” Brand Average Found. 
Guaranteed Analysis. 
Mapes Cereal Brand.Average Found. 
Guaranteed Analysis. 
Mapes Top Dresser Improved Full • 
Stren gth....Average Foun d*. 
Guaranteed Analysis. 
Ammonia 
4.60 
4.50 
6.46 
6 . 
3.2t 
3. 
5.25 
5. 
2.80 
2 . 
7.68 
7.50 
3.36 
3. 
2.48 
2 . 
11.67 
12 . 
hos. Acid 
Potash 
10.17 
7.48 
8. 
6. 
9.14 
7.18 
8. 
6. 
11.18 
6.66 
10. 
6. 
8.45 
5.86 
7. 
5. 
8.22 
11.80 
7. 
10. 
5.71 
11.12 
4.50 
10.50 
13.20 
3.17 
12. 
2.50 
9.22 
3.38 
8. 
3. 
8.35 
5.10 
8. 
4. 
*We have manufactured this brand since 1902. Average found is for 8 years. 
X 9 O 5-P O T A T O E S-1 9 0 9 
Five Consecutive Years First Prizes on Potatoes Queens-Nassau Counties 
Agricultural Society 
Five First Prize Crops for Quality, Queens-Nassau 
Counties Agricultural Society Fair, 1909. 
Richard C. Colyer , Woodbury, Ij. I. —Carman No. 3, 
Green Mountain, Rural New Yorker, Sir Walter Raleigh, 
best bushel Green Mountain. 
Two First Prize Crops for Quality, Queens-Nassau 
Counties Agricultural Society Fair, 1908. 
' R' O. Colyer , Woodbury , L. I. —Two varieties of pota¬ 
toes, Carman No. 1 and Sir Walter Raleigh, that took first 
premiums at Queens-Nassau Counties Fair this fall were 
grown with Mapes Fertilizers. 
Three First Prize Crops for Quality, Queens-Nassau 
Counties Agricultural Society Fair, 1907. 
R. C. Colyer , Woodbury , 1 : 1 . —The three varieties of 
potatoes, Green Mountain, Carman No. 1, and Carman 
No. 3, that took first premiums at Queens-Nassau Counties 
Fair this fall were grown with Mapes Fertilizers. 
Three First Prize Crops for Quality, Queens-Nassau 
Counties Agricultural Society Fair, 1906. 
R. G. Colyer , Woodbury , L. /., reports, November 27, 
1906—“The three varieties of potatoes, Green Mountain, 
Carman No. 3 and Sir Walter Raleigh, I sent you, took 
the first premium at the Queens-Nassau Counties Fair this 
fall; were grown from your fertilizer. We grew about 300 
bushels per acre. Sprayed the vines six times with Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture.” 
First Prize Crop for Quality, Queens-Nassau Counties 
Agricultural Society Fair, 1905. 
Extract from letter of Grower, Richard C. Colyer , Wood¬ 
bury, L.I., November 15, 1905—“We planted our potatoes 
on clover sod. Manure spread on half of patch with 700 
pounds of Mapes Potato Fertilizer, and on the rest we used 
a half ton Mapes Potato Manure alone. We did not see 
any difference. Yield was great, fully 300 bushels per acre. 
Sprayed the patch seven times with Bordeaux Mixture.” 
Descriptive pamphlet for 1910— “The Mapes Manures and How to Use Them”— 
mailed free. Also pamphlets on Tobacco, Market Truck, Fruit Trees and Small 
Fruits, including Oranges, Pineapples, etc., in Florida, West Indies, etc. 
‘The Mapes Formula (b Peruvian Guano Co., 
143 Liberty Street, New York, Branch, 239 State Street, Hartford, Conn. 
