Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-03
TIC w NJ. L. B R LEY.
MANUFACTURER OF
Super Phosphate Of Lime,
BOSTON. MASS.
BOSTON, MASS.

Dear Sir.-Your letter of February 18th ad-
dressed to us and published in most Vermont
papers, stating that we have asserted you used
Muck in the manufacture OF Super Phosphate,
which statement sis calculated to do you great
injustice, and if true, should destroy confidence in
your manufacture" deserves an early reply.
That we have made such assertion is not denied,
but herein lies our justification. Your Super
phosphate has every appearance OF having been
dried with muck, and so much does it lock 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
loots, Just as muck looks when freshly dug-and
on Vlsiting your place in April this substance
hau aisaeppeared We had also observed large
neaps VI grass and weeds which the tide having
washed upon your grounds had apparentl, been
moved back and Thrown into heaps to decompose
and become muck and all these things strength
ened us in the suppoSitiOD that you used muck
as dryer To further show that we had not
knowingly told thatjwhich was false, or Intention
ally done ought to injure your business, we here
with present the report of our analytic chemist:
BARNET, Feb. Is, 1868.
P, & co., have made comparative ana
lysis of your Super Phosphate and Bradly's L
have compared their solubility in cold and hot
water, also hard and soft water, and find there
is at least 25 per cent. more soluble matter IN
yours than in Bradley's, which contains one
| third of its bulk IN Muck. What the farmer
needs is a manure applicable to all crops, and
which will produce the largest crop for which it
is applied or intended, and the manure which has
the greatest solubility at once meets his expecta
| tons. 1 have of late taken more than us Hl
pains to look into and examine the di1erent lor-
| nulas and Phosphates which are recommended
or are in the market, and in my opinion that man.
ufactured by you is the best and cheapest by at
| least 25 per cent. In your Super Phosphate
thnrn IN he nothing hUt what is needed,
but in others there seems to be matter put in for
| nothing else but to increase its weight. l eX-
pected to have been at St. J. last week, &c
| (Signed) BENZ. F. EATON, M. 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
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 DIR. 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
H. S. Browne, NJ. D., is chairman, and whose
report will probably be published this week or
next, have made the same blunder, 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 "Bradleys Patent
Super Phosphate of Lime" which has circulated
through this section for years, is an analysis by
A. A. Hayes, NJ D., State ASsayer of Mass,
which you have caused to be made, and goa have
published to the world; and therein DIR. Hayes
says, Gin every hundred pounds OF your Super
Phosphate there is 80 IL lbs. almost half lis
weight of prepared animal matter, Salts OF Am
mOuia fatty substance and HumuS.D w hat is
HUMUS! By referring TO Worcester's Una
bridged Dictionary we find HuDlus defined as be-
ing the Latin for ground, a brown pulverlzeu
substance found in soils and resulting from the
decay of organic matter Webster's Dictionary
defines Haenaats in almost identical words, whllt
the chemistrys of Liebig, Johnston, Stockhar
and others give their readers to understand tina
Humus is Muck, Peat, Vegetable Mould, Decoy
ed Leaves, Wood, Roots, Grass, &c.
We regret that any misunderstanding mas ex
isted but feel confident that you will accept thu
above as a full explanation and justification o
our course, and if you deny the presence o
Muck in your preparations, and insist that tn,
community of farmers have been deceiyine
themselves, that Drs Eaton, Browne and Others
don't know what Muck is-we don't know i
when we see pile as big as any two churches il
- Vermont, and that your State Assayer, DR.
, HAYES, has made blunder in his report whicl
( you have been publishing for years-then W
will let the Muck question go and hereafter cal
t"HUMUS, claiming that Plaster is bette
dryer than "Humus," and desiring the farmer
to consult their dictionary TO find (if they can
the difference between Humus and Muck.
The Vermont Super Phosphate has prOUed tn
best, and we shall make that kind only, sellin,
at $50 ton, less than ton 8 50-l00 hundred
Farmers can have it delivered at their neares
depot at above prices by sending their money t
P ADDOCK, DEAN & co.
q ST. JOHNSBURY, VT.
St. Johnsbury, March IS, lS6S-l2tf