Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-23
To. PADDOCK, DEAN & Co.
From WILLIAM l.. RRADIEY

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
mei cial manures-since the first introduction of
Snperphosphate of Lime by the celebrated Llebig
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 10 these
experiments, or else, article purchased for
that purpose, and made by some reliable manu-
facturer OF SuperphosphaIe of Lime. Am cor
rect Are you willing TO state to the public that
the quality was the same as you sold to others,
and that you manufactured but one quality last
year
me that Justice demands it. The farmers should
know the facts, for If 1t y las, .' our regular
article will give as good satIslat ~" as mine,
when mixture like yours Will answer as well,
and which they can obtain at one hall the cost
that my Superphosphate OF Lime can De manu-
featured Tor, l am prepared to prove, ana Will
| convince them Sooa as you Will convince me
that Mr.. Lambert Hastings and others who have
written testimonials in favor OF your article,
used the same quality of your manufacture last
wear which you sold 10 &. 5. Hubbard, OF WINDS
or. VT, January 3D. 1868, and at that time stat
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and better than any you made the previous year
and the same also, which you sold 10 another
partv in Vermont late as May 1865. The
| points | wish TO know, and which the public
| Should understand, are-whether you manutact-
| ure more than one quality, or whethery you make
one s.batCh" as you call 1t, 10 experiment with
| for testimonials, and another "oalch 10 sell gen
e.ay; 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 an article mdnutactur-
ed by some one else, and dispose OF it Is your
own?
| fyour regular article, as rule, will answer
| he requirements necessary for the growth OF
pa1tS, then science, far as it goes TO aid agri-
| cul uTe, is a failure. go .
| | have always supposed, and still think, tnat
far ers wan. phosphate OF uniform quality,
Que that can be depended upon season ailer STA
son and one that both science aid the expert
ence of years has proved 10 contain known Iooo
constituents III proportions necessary 10 the
growth of plants which are sparlngiy Iouhu IL
all soils that have been cultivated 1Or 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 unwaTranttd III DONG,
10 say the least; therefore simply ask in return
from you an answer to the above, that l may
make further comments hereafter for the Dene-
nit OF the Vermont farmers.
WIN L. BRADLEY,
Manufacturer of Standard Fertilizers,
"A Broad Street. Boston.
Sole agent in the United States for the B
Sea-Fowl Guano.
| Boston, Feb. Is, 1869.