Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-09-17
CAMBRIDGE FERRY, May 80, 1868

CAMBRIDGE FERRY, May 80, 1868.
THos S. HADDAwAY, Esq,
My Dear Sir In reply to your inquiry respect
inc the use have made of Rhodes &, Co.'S Standard
Manure, would say that have used it with other
kinds of Phosphates for number Of years wheat,
and have found it equal to anything have yet tried
for both wheat and grass Very truly yours.
ALEX. BOWDLE
CHURCH HILL, @. A. Co., Nd May 20, 1868.
Messrs B. M. RHODES & Co., Baltimore.
Dear SIrs-In answer to your inquiry of May 10th,
I bought in 1866 old WORKOUT farm Of about $50
acres, that would barely pay the taxes and keep
up the necessary expenses of the farm, paying
nothing to the owner. I commenced inquring for
something to improve the land I heard of your
Super-Phosphate, and determined to try it at
bought four or five barrels and sent it to my tenant,
Mr. Jesse Reed, and he applied it to the oats crop
that he then seeding and it greatly improved the
OATS and we seeded the whole in clover, and upon
the part where no Rhodes was applied, there was
scarcely sprig of clover grew but upon the places
where the Super-Phosphate was applied we had
good stand of clover and the land greatly improved.
In the fall of the same year I insisted on my tenant
using it on his crop of wheat. After considering,
he agreed to do so, if 1 would furnish the Super
Phosphate and pay for his part out OF the wheat.
We put about one hundred and fifty pounds to the
acre, and we got fine crop of wheat-about four
times the quantity which had been raised on the farm
in previous years. l stated to my tenant that the
whole field must be seeded in clover the next spring.
He stated that would be useless to seed clover
seed in that field that he had seeded 1t several times
and that it would not grow, but insisted nit, and
determined to furnish the seed at my own expense,
with the understanding that it must not be pastured
until in bloom and the result that have
beautiful field of clover and the appearances Of the
land changed entirely. The next year | moved on
the farm myself, and continued using your Super
Phosphate, both my corn crop and wheat at
about $50 pounds per each crop, making 800
pounds to the on the two crops. My crops COM
menced improving and in three four years had in
creased my crop from 1000 bushels to $780, and
my wheat crop from 800 to AGO. to 1000 bushels in
deed, after the first gear both my corn crop and aoheat
crop each paid me Dhat Igove for the land The farm
was paying two hundred and seventy-five to four
hundred dollars per year when l bought it, and in
eight nine years l was offered $4,000 per year
rent for the same farm. I commenced in 1860
buying old aoorn-ou land at los0 prices and using
your Super-Phosphate three hundred to four hum
dred pounds ON the corn and sOheat crop united.
acres that was paying one hundred and seventy
farm is now paying from So 500 to ST. 700 per year
from the use of your Super-Phosphate and nothing
else. Improving all mig land s0ith 1t and moth
ing else. have tried number of other brands and
found of them good for crop, but to Improve
land think there IS nothing IN the market equal to
Rhodes Super Phosphate, the old Standard Manure,
and my candid opinion is that take the poorest
land on shore-entirely worn out-if the land is
of good sub-so and make it rich with nothing else
but Rhodes Super-Phosphate, and believe there is
land shore that cannot be improved, if it is
of good quality and be bought at fifteen to twen-
ty dollars per acre. and flushed up and seeded down