Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-10
INOUNTER STATEMEN T.


MEssRs, PADDOCK, DEAN & Co.
Manufacturers of Vermont Raw Bone Su-
per-Phosphate of Lime, st. Johnsbury.
GENTLEMEN.-Your letter addressed to me
through several Vermont papers of recent date,
needs my attention. You still seem disposed to
mislead the public mind in reference to my Super
Phosphate of Lime, and you even inslnuate that
grass, weeds &C., washed upon my grounds by
the tide, are eventually. worked into my Super
Phosphate, as you have seen such materials near
my factory, which had the appearance of being
moved back and thrown into heaps to heat.
If you have been to my Factory at Weymouth
you have seen such stuff as you describe. 1t was
sea weed. have many tons every year washed
upon my beach, and | give farmer in the neigh
borhood half Oft for throwing it back into heaps.
use my half in the place of straw as bedding tor
my horses, and the farmer carts his halt away
and does what he pleases with it. have never
watched him to see what use he made of it, but
have no idea he uses it to make Super-Phosphate.
You probably noticed at this visit to my Fac
tory, large pile of lumber, many thousands of
brick, granite, and other building material Why
did you not conclude that all these mater als
were to be worked into my Super-PhOsphate? |
should quite as soon think of using lumber,
brick or granite, as l should sea weed or muck,
in making Super-Phosphate.
| Now about "humus surely you know that
| it is moulG-that it is organic matter, either
animal vegetable in a state of decay fermen-
| tation, and one of the most valuable nitrogen
GUS substances it is possible to put into the SOIL
1t is not muck or peat. If you do not Know-
| ask any chemist. Do you suppose DIR. Hays
would write "humus when he meant muck ?
Just ask him. l really think you would make a
| better fertilizer if you knew more about humuS.
| Why do you not give the actual definition of hu-
mus as you found it i'll Webster's dictionary
| He tells you that humuS is q pulyerent brown
substance formed by the action of the air on solid
animal or vegetable matter. 1t is valuable con-
stituent of soils. You carefully avoid saying
anything about animal matter for fear as l sup
| pose, the farmers might see where the humuS in
my Phosphate came FROM which DIR. Hayes re-
ported in his analysis, and which you refer to in
ynur latta- We told that a certain large
portion of your Super-Phosphate will dissolve il
water, but we are not told how much of the really
valuable substances will dissolve in rain water
| Why not tell us?
| All the virtue in a Super-Phosphate is hidden
like the copper in an ore. Nothing will prove
its presence but practical trial, or true chem.
ical analysis. If you have such a wonderful
Phosphate why do you not publish full analysis
have correct analysis of your Phosphate, anC
will publish it if you desire me to, and will be
responsible Tor the correctness ofthe same. ShGk
! / do 1t?
You say that you regret that any msunder
standing has existed, but feel confident will &C
cept your apology.
believe you do regret it, but fail to see you
! apology, and would advise you hereafter not Il
undertake to introduce your manufacture, by
trying to run down your neighbOrs. This is baC
policy, even # you have an article of equal mer
it; and dOubly so when you have All article
worth less than half and costing less than half a
much as the one you are trying to destroy, by
misrepresentation.
You know, and the agricultural community
throughout New England know that my PhOs
phate has gained al unprecedented reputation, a.
the STANDARD PHOSPHATE of the country
and you might as well undertake to run the Fair
banks scale out of the market by representa-
that all the bearings to their scales were lead, a
to drive me out of the market, by saying that
use muck in my Phosphate. ONE WOULD BIZ
AS TRUE AS THE OTHER. Fairbanks scale
hold the same position as a scale, that my Phos
phate does as Phosphate, and it is for this rea
son that unprncipled men try to run both down
introduce their own inferior manufacture.
l give below such proof as deem necessary Il
convince disiuterested, and should conrlnce inter
ested parties, that do not use muck in my Super
Phosphate.
Should this not be satisfactory I can give NOR
than one hundred additional names men in m,
employment that these certificates are true.
WIN. l. BRADLEY,
Manufl cturer of BRADLEY's PATENT SUPER
PHOSPHATE 81 LINE, IN tcItich no muck erer acG
or eUer aciH be used.
20 STATE STREET, BosToN, March %, 1868.
WIN l.. BRADLEY, ESQ, DEAR SIR In repl.
: TO your inquiry OF yesterday, | have been tamii
ar with your fertilizer for several years, and hav
analyzed it in its different stages Of manuactur
:
er parties who are purchasers.
There has never been any muck or peat I
it, nor has any constituent ever been found in
r in this laboratory. "Humus" is present but tina
it is derived from muck" is an erroneous belle
and without foundation. Respectfully,
S DANA HAYES, st tie Assayer Of Boston
Mass.
Al SOMERSET STREET, BOSToN, March 26, 1866
To 3Chent 1t may concern This IS 10 cerlIf
that have frequently visited VIM. l.. Bradley
e Super Phosphate of Lime Mandatory, and hay
, seen the rt.-'r,tiS used, and have never see
' muck about ms establishment.
phate, and have never discovered muck III tie a
tcle, but the analys Is have always proved tha
S the materials have seen ut his factory were II
articles which composed his Super-PhOSphate
: Lime.
CHAS. T. JACKSON, NJ. D., State Assayer. Mas
n l presume Drs. Hayes, both father and son, an
+ DIR. Jackson, onot require any endorsement
5 satisfy you of their ability to anayze fertilizers
J. TO ,ehom At may concern: This is 20 ccrtil
> that have for seven years past been with WI
l.. Bradley since he co mmenced his present hu
mess, as agent and General Superintendent,
his Supher-PhoSphate OF Lime mandatory. nu
60 hereby testify that no muck has ever nee
used in his establishment, in any way, shape
manner
CHAS. COZ.
! BosroN. March %. ls6S
' To 'ch0Bi e may concern This IS 90 ccrr..
- that have been iu tAe employment ui WIN
y Bradley for more thau Jour year, aud mo-
" that time have been Il said Bndloy's SugE ThJ
p phate uf Lime r nuari.Iy, 40 Roo .sy, Mas
and am al. ta testify iI1m pee-,tye buowledl
that uo mueN ha- .g,u H--,i uy said Bradley
any shape or mffH-s, ne manufacture Of ;,
e. peril boz Lame.
WALTER NJ. ROGERS.
p BosIoN March p, 1865
d. .E... 49, g.