Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-10
ITO W NJ. L. BRAD LEY.
MANUFACTURES OF
Super Phosphate of Lime,
BOSTON, MASS.

Dear Sr,-Your letter of February 18th adj
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 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 il 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 apparently 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 a dryer. To further show that we nad not
knowingly told thatwhich was false, or a''te'tao-
aUy done ought to injure your business, we mere
with present the report of our anal ytlc chemist:
BARNET, Feb Is, 1868.
PD. COL have made comparative ana
lysis of your Super Phosphate and Bradlys. L
have compared their soubility in cold and not
water, also hard and soft water, and IND there
Is at least 25 per cent. more soluble matter III
|
| third of its buK IN Muck. What the farmer
needs is a manure applicable to all crops, and
which will produce the largest crop for when IL
is applied or intended and the manure Whlcn nas
the greatest soubility at once meets MS expecIa-
| tons l have of late taken more than usual
pains to look into and examine the different Tor
I uuias ana 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 % 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 tor
nothing else but increase its weight. ex-
pected to have been at St. ]. last week, &c.
| (Signed) BENZ. F. EATON, NJ. ID.
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 II did last
AS you are not acquainted with DIR. 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
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 bradley Patent
Super Phosphate of Lime, which has circulated
through this section for years, is an analysis Dy
A. A. Hayes, NJ. D., State Assayer of Mass,
which you have caused to be made, and you have
published to the world; and therein DIR. Hayes
says, Gin every hundred pounds OF your Super
Phosphate there is SO l-2 lbs. (aimOst half its
weight) of prepared animal matter, Salts OF Am
monia, fatty substance and Humus Wnat Is
IHUMUS! By referring to Worcester's Una
bridged Dictionary we find HasDaats defined as be-
ing the Latin for ground, brown pulVerlzeo
substance found in soils and resulting from the
decay of organic matter. Websters Dictionary
defines Hatntas in almost identical words While
the chemistrys of Liebig, Johnston, 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-
isted but feel confident that you will,acceept the
above as full explanation and justification OF
our course, and if you deny the presence OF
Muck in your preparations, and insist tnat the
community of farmers have been decelvlng
themselves, that Drs. Eaton, Browne and others
don't know what Muck is-we don't know 1t
when we see pile as big as any two churches IN
: Vermont, and that your State Assayer, DR..
\ Hayes, has made blunder in his report which
you have been publishing for years-then we
u will let the Muck question go and hereafter cal
Iit"H MUS,'-claiming that Plaster is a better
dryer than "Humus," and desiring the farmers
to consult their dictionary 10 find (if 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 So a ton, less than ton 5O-l00 hundred
Farmers can have it delivered at their nearest
uepoU at aUove prices Dy soHdins their money &c
P A DD0CK, DEAN & CO..
n ST. JOHNSBURY, VT.
st. Johnsbury, March IS, 186S-l2tf