Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-09
To PADDOCK, DEAN & Co.
From WILLIAM L. BRADLEY.

From WILLIAM l.. BRADLEY.
1 notice your list of testimonials from farmers
in Vermont, who used your phosphate last year,
and that they speak highly of your article.
l 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 ear On COIN.
mel cial manures-since the nrst introduction OF
Superphosphate of Lime by the celebrated Liebg
that the article by which these men obtained
such satisfactory results, was moi your regular
article as furnished by you to others twelve
months since, but was made with a view 10 tnese
ex periments, or else, an article purchased Tor
| that purpose, and made by some reliable manu-
| facturer OF Superphosphate of Lime. Am cor
rect Are you Wiling 10 state 10 the puOlic Inae
the quality was the same as you sold 10 others,
and that Won manufactured but one quality last
year ~ :.
me that Justice demands H. Inc farmers shouId
know the facts, for II II = ii'e i-st oul regular
| article will give as good satsIacti-n as mine,
when mixture like yours Will answer as well,
and which they can obtain at one nan Tue COST
| that my Superphosphate OF Lime can oe manu-
featured for, as l am prepared to prove, ana VIII
convince them us soon as you Will convince me
that Mr. Lambert Hastings and Others VINO nave
written testimonials in favor OF your article,
used the same quality of your manufacture last
year which you sold 10 G. D hubbard OF 7" mus
ed to him in letter that it was your last "Oatch
and better than any you made the previous y ear
and the same, also, which you sold to another
marty in Vermont as late as May 1865. Inc
points | wish TO know, and which the puDnc
shuuId understand, are-whether you mahuiact-
ure more than one qualify, or WhetneT you lhahe
one sbaICh,' us you call It, TO experiment Will
for testimonials, and another "6ateh TO sell gen
! e.ally and if only one quality, ola LahDeIe
Hastings and others, who have MADE IdFoTapIe
reports of your article, use that one quallty, or
did YOU procure for them an article manufacture
D ed by some one else, and dispose of it as your
own?
If your guar article. as rule, will answer
| me requirements necessary Tor the grow OF
plants then science, far as it goes TO aid agr-
: culture, is a failure.
have always supposed. and still think, that
farmers want phosphate of uniform quality
one that can be depended upon season after sea
son and one that both science and the experl.
ence vi years has proved TO contain known 1000
constituents i'll proportions necessary To the
growth vi plants which are sparlngly Iouhu IL
ali soils that have been cultivated lof IOhS pc
| Rod. You made severe charges against me las
| wear, as Il manufacturer Ot Supefphospndte
| which was able To prove To the satisfaction o
al, trust, that you were unWaranteo III DONG
10 say The least; therefore SIMPLY ask III retuIl
= | rom you an answer To tie above, that L may
make further comments hereafter tor the bene
4 | 1T vi the Vermont farmers.
l. MM. L. BRADLEY;
+ Manufacturer OF Standard Fertilizers,
"A Broad Street, Boston.
= sole agent III the United States Tor the b l
: oet-FOW GuanO.
| Boston, Feb 10, 1869.