Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-18
To PADDOCK. DEAN g. Co.
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.
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 years, on COM
melcial 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 willing TO state to the public that
the quality the same you sold TO Others
and that you manufactured but one quality last
| year?
My 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, that 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 half the cost
| that my Superphosphate of Lime can be manu-
featured for, as am prepared to prove, and will
| convince them as soon 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
year which you sold to c. S. Hubbard, of Winds
or, Vt, January 3d. 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 1868. The
points 1 wish to know, and which the public
should understand, are-whether you manufact
ure more than one quality, or whether you MAKE
one "batch," as you call it, to experiment witt
for testimonials, and another "batch" to sell gen
orally; and if only one quality, did Lamber
hastings and others, who have made favorable
reports or your article, use that one quality, o.
did you procure for them an article manufacture
ed by some one else, and dispose of it as you
ownl
fyour regular article, as rule, will answe
the requirements necessary for the growth o
plants. then science, SO far it goes to aid agri
culture, is failure.
1 have always supposed, and still think, tina
farmers want phosphate of uniform quality
one that can be depended upon season after sea
son and one that both science and the expert
ence of years has proved to contain known foo,
constituents in proportions necessary to tn
growth of plants which are sparingly found /,
all soils that have been cultivated for a long pc
riod. You made severe charges against me las
year, as manufacturer of Superphosphate
: which was able to prove to the satisfaction o
: all, trust, that you were unwarranted in doing
to say the least; therefore simply ask in return
from you an answer to the above, that ma,
make further comments hereafter for the bene
fit of the Vermont farmers. "
WIN. L. BRADLEY,
Manufacturer of Standard Fertilizers,
"a Broad Street. Boston.
, Sole agent in the United States for the B ]
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Boston, Feb. 10, 1869. 8