Manures, 
-L- iho MnhP^ Potaio-and other Special Crop Manures. 
Increase your supply of farm manures by adding the P 
-^TmxT ’vrrv MAPES POTATO MANURE. 
SUPERIORITY OF POTATO CROPS GROWN WITH T H 
— SCO p^p^t for history oj ten-acro feW l.y f 
684 Bushels of Potatoes on less thnn one acre. 
Ai/KRED ROSE, Penn Yan, Yates € 011047 , N, Y,, reports on Potatoes: 
"Esimins,” on one mcasnretl acre, 61 rows. After Potatoes were ^ rows 
entire were carried off by a flood, reducing the yield proportionately. 
10 cords barnyard manure broadcast, ^ 684 bushels from the 57 rows (4 
200 lbs. Mapes Potato “ " I s>iort of an acre). Quality very 
300 " “ '* “ in the drills, f supcilor, bright, smooth, very large, 
200 “ '* “ “ at hoeing, j and uniform. 
Alfked Rose, Penn Yan, N. Y., repoi-te also on other varieties ns follows: 
100 hills of each, experimentally, same fertilizing as with tlio above. 
“Invincible”.at rate of 060 bushels per acre. 
“Rocky Mountain Rose”. “ 948H “ “ 
“Eximius”. " 846 “ “ 
When tlio Mapes Potato Manure was omitted, the yield was decreased on tlie 
several varieties 200 to 220 busliels per acre. Mr. Rose writes: “ There is a 
nrcat difl'erence (In yield) in favor of the Mapes Potato Manure, also In finer 
QUALITY and ssrooTiiEK potatoes.’* 
S55 bushels Potatoes on one nci'C (second npplicntioii of the Ulnpcs 
Pomto Mnnurc when plants 5 inches high). 
240 bushels I’otntocs per acre on balance of Held (20 acres) —only the 
lUapcs Illamirc used on the cutli’e piece. 
Dr. W. S. Comps, Freehold. Monmouth County, N. J., Oct. 6 th, 1883, writes; 
“ The potatoes (Mmnmoih Pearl) were iflanted from 20lh to 25th of April on 
imd were fertilized with the ’MAPES POTATO MANURE’ 
at the lute of one-hall ton per acre. Nothing el.so was applied. The Potato 
Manure was usedo«c-7iaf/in the roio and half broadcast As near as I can esM- 
mate, the average yield was about 240 bushel J j.er acre. 1 have on e acre to wlficli 
when the plants »;ere five inclies high. I applied another dressfng of 
and woJ ked it in. This acre I hail accurately measured and the poutoes from it 
weighed; the result *toa8 355 bushels on the acre. The tie d s now sown ^?i^h 
wheat-nomaimrcor/crtmrcrbeiugused.” ® 
, history 0l ten-aoro fleW, Dy Dr- W. S. Combs, since 1870. 
Xrroats. Wheat, and Grass) laugely Ih-CUEASEU. Wheat 
^™^^R4r200hSsoi. 10 acres, increased in 1882 to 400 BUSHELS OPWHEat. 
oroi)( 18 < 8 ), 200 hushels gkeatly IMPkoved 
roKDiTioTfnra caoPPih'G ouklvg sevekal successive seasoks. Noth. 
Ing hat the Mapes Manures used. 
CROP OF POTATOES (“EAKEY BOSE”) NEAKEY BTJINED By 
^E-W OEMS WHERE 40 LOADS PER ACRE OP 
STABLE JLUOJRE WERE USED-YIELD 120 
bushels per acre, and OWE- 
IIALF FIT FOJt SAIF. 
WITH 400. LBS. OF THE jlLlPES POTATO MANURE PER ACRE, 
CROP **NOT TOUCIAFF RY TJIF WOFSIS FNOJTGS 
TO HURT” —YIELD AT RATE OF 450 
BUSHELS OF POTATOES. 
Hexry Stkwaut, Hackensack, Bergen County, N. J., writesAugust 28th, 
1883. 
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twont} tons and upward of the Mapes M.anures in a season. Address 
_pro¬ 
duced Olio barrel, 2^ bushels. A.s the row.s were 3 feet apart, the yield i.s equal 
to 180 baiTels or 450 bushels per aero. Tiie otJicr potato is a fair specimen of 
those grown with cow and hen niauui u, yielding a bai rel of fair i)otatoes to 300 
feet of row, equal to ijjQ bushels per acT c. A large quantity, quite a half of 
this part of tiio crop, was comxyleteiy destroyed by wiro-worms. and not more than 
half those saved would be fit for sale. Not a potato, of those grown with the 
fertilizer alone, is toiuhcd by the worms enough to hurt it. X used 10 loads of 
«acre”^^ to ^ quarter of an acre and 50 lbs. of the feililizer to one-eighth of an 
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