Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-16
To PADDOCK, DEAN & Co.
From WILLIAM L. BRADLEY.

From WILLIAM L. BRADLEY.
noIce 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 nv 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 cial 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 10 these
experiments, or else, an article purchased Tor
that purpose, and made by some reliable manu-
facturer OF Superphosphate of Lime. Am L cor
rect? Are you willing to state TO the pubnc 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 1t. The farmers should
know the facts, for II II - iati That our 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 tne cost
that my Superphosphate ot Lime can DC manu-
featured Tor, am prepared to prove, ana Will
convince them as soon as you VIII 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 TO C. 5. Hubbard, of Winds
or VT January 22d, 1865 and at that time stat
ed to hun i'll ii 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 1865. The
points | wish TO know, and which the pubic
should understand, are-whether you manufact-
Ure more than one quality, or whether you make
one 'batCh" us you call 1t, TO experiment with
for testimonials, and another "balch" to sell gen.
{. ally; and II only one quality, did Lambert
Hastings and others, Who have made favorable
reports OF your article, that quality, or
did you procure for them an article manutactur-
Ell by some one else, and dispose OF il as your
own?
If your regular article, as a rule, will answer
the requirements necessary for the growth of
plants, then science, far as II goes TO aid agr-
culture, is a failure
have always supposed, and still think, that
farmers wan. a phosphate of uniform quality,
one that can be depended upon season after sea-
son aud one that both science and the expert
ence of years has proved to contain known tood
constituents in proportions necessary 10 the
growth of plants which are sparingly iouho IN
| all soils that have been cultivated Tor long Pc
riod You made severe charges against me last
year. as manufacturer OF Superphosphate,
which l was able to prove to the satisfaction OF
| ALL trust, that you were unwarranted III doing,
TO say the least; therefore simply ask in return
| from YOU an answer to the above, that may
make further comments hereafter Tor the bene-
| tit 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, 1862