Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-17
ITO W NJ. L. BRADLEY
MANUFACTURER OF
Super Phosphate Of Lime
BOSTON, MASS.

Dear sar.-Your letter of February 1ztb
dressed to us and published in mos I Ilth ad,
papers, statlng tnat we have asserted vo mont
Muck In the manufacture OF sinner P5so ~ used
which statement sis calculated to do vonpudle,
lhJustice and II true, should destroy coqfeeoae
That we have made such assertion is NOT daeply
but herein lies our justification. Your Snsuu,
Phosphate has every appearance of HAVING bpf
dried with muck, and so much does il loot o9 "a
feel ike that substance. that in common Ny -4
| most farmers who see muck every day of tba:
lives, we had been led to suppose it was muci
Again, we have visited your establisbmeTt:
september, when there was four or five hupdraI
TONS OF muck on hand, or some substance naa.IIu
resembling the same-with the sticks, leaves ~
Ioots, just as muck looks when freshly dug
on Visitlng your place in April this snhstor@
had disappeared. We had also ohsay,ra CIi It
neaps OF grass and weeds which the lido baysc
| washed upon your grounds had apnareI,tI Ios
moved back and thrown into heaps to deem nl5A
and become muck and all these things stro 11Pgse
ened us in the suppoSitioD that you used rGnli
as dryer. To further show that we had NJ.
knowingly told that which was false, or Intent
ally done ought to injure your business, we bere
with present the report of our analytic chemisf
BARNET, Feb. Is, 1868.
| F., ID. co., have made comparative an.
| lysis of your Super Phosphate and Bradly's
| have compared their solubility in cold and h,
|
is at least % per cent. more soluble matter Il
yours than in Bradley's, which contains oa-
| thaTd OF ltS bulk IN Muck. What the farmer
needs is manure applicable to all crops, and
| which will produce the largest crop for which
| is applied or intended, and the manure which bas
the greatest sOlubility at once meets his expect
| lions. | have of late taken more than usua
pains to look into and examine the different for
mulas and Phosphates which are recommended
arc fl Iile market, and i my opinion that man
ufactured by You is the best and cheapest ~ 1f
least % per cent. In your Super Phosphate
there seems to be nothing but what is needed
but IN others there seems to be matter put in fox
pected to have been at st. J. last week, &c.
(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
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 III
following from Prot. Crosby of Dartmouth CoI
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 be was
q good analytic chemist
(Signed) DIx1 CROSBY"
Furthermore, the Committee appointed bv 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 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 y0Ur
book of testimonials called Bradley Patent
Super Phosphate of Lime" which has circulated
through this section for years, is an ANALYSIS BIZ
a. A. Hayes, NJ. D., State Assayer of Mass.
which goa have caused to be made, and y0u have
published to the world and therein DR.. Haras
says, ''in every hundred pounds of your S13er
Phosphate there is IS IL lbs (aimost hall rs
weight, of prepared animal matter, Salts of AM
mOnIa, fatty substance and HUmus." What
HU MUS! By referring to Worcester's Una
brldged Dictionary we find RltaaatS defined as be-
ing the Latin for ground, brown pulverized
substance found in soils and resulting from the
decay of organic matter. Webster's Dectionarv
defines HlsnluS in almost identical words, while
the chemistrys of Liebig, Johnston, Stocklart
and others give their readers to understand that
Humus is Muck, Peat Vegetable Mould, Decov-
ed Leaves. Wood, Roots, Grass, sc.
We regret that any misunderstanding mas ex.
isted but feel confident that you will accept the
above as full explanation and justification Of
our course, and if you deny the presence Ot
Muck in your preparations, and insist that the
community Of farmers have been deceiving
themselves, that Drs. Eaton, Browne and Others
don't know what Muck is-we don't know Il
when we see pile as big as any two churches ii
Vermont, and that your State Assayer, Dr.
Hayes, has made blunder in his report which
YOU have been publishing for years-then We
viii let the Muck question go and hereafter call
i UMUS, claiming that Plaster is better
dryer than ''Humus," and desiring the farmers
70 consult their dictionary to find (if they cll
the difference between Humus and Muck
The Vermont Super Phosphate has propea the
best, and we shall make that kind only, selling
at 500 ton, less than a ton 3 50-I0O a hundred
Farmers can have it delivered at their nearest
depot at above prices by sending their money 70
7 A DDOCK, DEAN & Co.,
ST. JOHNSBURY, VT.
St. Johnsbury, March IS, l86S-l2tf