Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-01
no w NJ. L. B RADLEY
MANUFACTURER OF
Super Phosphate Of Lime,
BOSTON, MASS.

Dear Ssr,-Your letter of February 18th adj
dressed to us and published in most Vermont
papers, statlhg that we have asserted you used
Muck In the manufacture OF Super Pbosphate
which statement sis calculated to do Won Great
injustice, and if true should destrov confidence in
your manufacture" deserves an early renlv
That we have made such assertion is not denied
but herein lies our justification Your Sinner
Phosphate has every appearance of having been
dried with muck, and so much does 1t look and
feel like that substance. that in common with
most farmers who see muck every day of their
lives, we had been led to suppose it was muck.
Again, we have visited your establishment in
september, when there was four or five hundred
TONS OF muck on hand, or some substance nearly
resembling the same-with the sticks leaves and
roots, just as muck looks when freshly dug-and
on visiting your place in april this substance
had disappeared. We had also observed large
heaps of grass and weeds which the tide having
washed upon your grounds had appaIelt been
moved back and thrown into heaps to decompose
and become muck; and all these things strength.
ened US in the suppositOn that you used muck
as dryer. To further show that we had no.
knowingly told that which was false, or intention
aIEy done ought to inIure your business, we here
with present the report of our analytic chemist
BARNET, Feb. Is, 1868
P, D. & COL have made comparative ana
ysis of your Super Phosphate and Bradlys. l
have compared their sOubility in cold and hot
water, also hard and soft water, and find there
Is at least % per cent. more soluble matter in
yours imam III bradley WHICH COIldluS Que
third of its bulk IN Muck. What the farmer
needs is manure applicable TO all crops, and
which will produce the largest crop for which 1t
is applied or intended, and the manure which has
the greatest solubity at once meets his eHpecta,
tionS. | have OF late taken more tnah usual
pains to look into and examine the dlnerent Tor
mulas and Phosphates which are recommended
or are in the market, and in my opinion that man.
Is ~ GaR n your d eeFe4Ps5s e
there seems to be nothing but what is needed,
but III others there seems to be matter put in for
nothing else but to increase its weight | eX-
pected 10 have been at ST. }. last week,
(Signed) BENZ. F. EATON, NJ. d.
| This letter was not intended for publication,
| but was the result Of various analysis which We
| had caused to be made in order that we might
1 be sure our Super Phosphate would prove as
much better than others this year as it did last
AS you are not acquainted with DR.. EatOn the
following from Prof. Crosby of Dartmouth Col
| lege will sufficiently justify the implicit conf
dence which we placed in his report
'HANovER, Dec. 5, 1867.
When DR.. B. F. Eaton practiced here he was
a good analytic chemist.
(Signed) DIxI CRosBY."
| Furthermore, the Committee appointed by the
| Caledonia County Agricultural Society of whom
| II. S. Browne, NJ. D.. is chairman, and whose
report will probably be published this week or
next have made the same bundeT, though they
may not say Muck in their report as it would be
telling that which is not considered news. We
never thought of your denying the use of muck,
as on the inside of the front cover leaf Of Your
book of testimonials called "Bradey's Patent
Super Phosphate of Lime which has circulated
through this section for years, is an analysis by
4. 4. Hayes NJ. D., State Assayer OF Mass,
which yoW have caused TO be made, and goa have
published to the world; and therein DR.. Hayes
says lin every hundred pounds Of your Super
Phosphate there is 80 IL lbs. (aimost half ns
weight, of prepared animal matter, Salts Of Am
monia fatty substance and Humus." What is
HUMIS! By referring to Worcester's Una
bridged Dictionary we find Hltnaus defined as be-
ing the Latin for ground, a brown pulverized
substance found in soils and resulting from the
decay of organic matter. Webster's Dictionary
defines HunallS in almost identical words, while
the chemistrys of Lebig, Johnston5 Stockhart
and others give their readers to understand that
Humus is Muck, Peat, Vegetable Mould, Decoy-
ed Leaves, Wood, Roots, Grass, &C.
| We regret that any misunderstanding mas eX
listed, but feel confident that you will accept the
above a full explanation and justification OF
our course, and II you deny the presence OF
Muck in your preparations, and insist that the
community OF farmers have been deceivlng
themselves, that Drs. Eaton, Browne and others
don't know what Muck is-we don't know it
when we see a pile as big as any two churches in
Vermont, and that your State AssayeT, Dr..
! Hayes, has made blunder in his report which
you have been publishing for years-then we
will let the Muck question 60 and hereafter call
t"HUMUS, '-claming that Plaster is a better
dryer than "Humus," and desiring the farmers
to consult their dictionary 10 find (lt they can
the difference between Humus and Muck.
The Vermont Super Phosphate has proceed the
best, and we shall make that kind only. selling
at 500 a ton, less than Il ton 50-lOO a hundred.
Farmers can have it delivered at their nearest
depot at above prices by sending their money to
FADD oOK, DEAN g CO.,
l ST. JOHNSBURY, VT.
& Job,st,,r,- NraroI, 10 1895 19+f