Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-02
To PADDOCK, DEAN & Co.
From WILLIAM L. BRADLEY.

From WILLIAM L. BRADLEY.
notice your list of testimonials from farmers
in Vermont, who used your phosphate last year,
and that they speak highly of your article.
am led to believe from my knowledge of the
use of commercial fertilizers, from hundreds of
experiments made within the last fifteen years
under my own eye, and from the experience of
others during that time, and from the writings
of scientific men for the last forty years, on COM
mel cal manures-since the first Introduction of
Snperphosphate of Lime by the celebrated Liebig
that the article by which these men obtained
such satisfactory results, was not your regular
article as furnished by you to others twelve
months since, but was made with view to these
experiments, or else, an article purchased for
that purpose, and made by some reliable manu-
facturer of Superphosphate of Lime. Am cor
rect Are you wiling 10 state to the pubic That
the quality was the same as you sold to others,
and that YOU manufactured but one quality last
year?
Nv reason for asking this is that it seems to
me that Justice demands it The farmers should
know the facts, for if it is fact tat your regular
article will give as good satisfaction as mine,
when a mixture like yours Will answer as well,
and which they can obtain at one nan the cost
that my Superphosphate of Lime can De manu-,
featured for, as l am prepared to prove, ana Will
convince them soon as you will convince me
that Mr. Lambert Hastings and others who nave
written testimonials in favor OF your article,
used the same quality of your manufacture last
year which you sold to c. S. Hubbard, OF W lnds-
or. VT, January 22d, 1868. and at that time stat
ed to him in letter that it was your last ''batch"
and better than any you made the previous year
and the same, also, which you sold to another
party in Vermont as late as May 1858. The
points | wish to know, and which the puDnc
should understand, are-whether you manutact-
ure more than one quality, or whether you make
one ''batCh," as you call it, 10 experiment with
for testimonials, and another "batch' to sell gen.
orally; and if only one quality, did Lambert
Hastings and others, who have made favorable
reports of your article, use that one quality, or
did you procure for them article manufactur-
ed by some one else, and dispose of it as your
| own?
If your regular article, as rule, will answer
| the requirements necessary for the growth of
plants, then science, far as it goes TO aio agrf
culture, is failure.
l have always supposed, and still think, that
farmers want a phosphate of uniform quality,
one that can be depended upon season after sea-
son and one that both science and the expert
| enAe of years has proved TO contain known food
| constituents in proportions necessary TO the
growth of plants which are sparlngly found IN
| all soils that have been cultivated for long Pc
| Rod You made severe charges against me last
year, as a manufacturer of Superphosphate,
which was able to prove to the satisfaction of
all, trust, that you were unwarranted IN dong,
to say the least | therefore simply ask in return
| from you an answer to the above, that l may
| make further comments hereafter for the bene-
/ fit ofthe Vermont farmers.
| VIM. L. BRADLEY,
| Manufacturer of Standard Fertilizers,
| "a Broad Street. Boston.
| Sole agent in the United States for the D
| Sea-Fowl GuanO.
Boston, Feb. Is, 1869.