Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-11
To PADDOCK, DEAN & Co.
From WILLIAM L. BRADLEY.
HENRY C. CLEVELAND.

FROM w LILLIAN IL. bhADLE1.
Inorice your list of testimonials from farmers
in Vermont, who used your phosphate last year.
and that they speak highly of your article.
I 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 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 to these
experiments, or else, an article purchased for
that purpose, and made by some reliable manu-
factnrer of Superphosphate 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,
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 G. S, Hubbard, of Winds
or, VT, January 22d, 1868, and at that time stat
ed to him in letter that it was your last 'sbatch"
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 / 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 with
for testimonials, and another "batch" to sell gen.
erally; 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 manufactur-
ed by some one else, and dispose oft as your
owni ---- .#..
If your regular article, as rule, will answer
the requirements necessary for the growth of
plants, then science, so far it goes to aid agri
culture, is failure.
| 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
ence of years has proved TO contain known food
growth of plants which are sparingly found IN
all soils that have been cultivated for long pc
riod. You made severe charges against me fast
year, as a manufacturer of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
which was able to prove to the satisfaction of
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 l may
make further comments hereafter for the bene-
fit ofthe Vermont farmers. A
WIN. L. BRADLEY,
Manufacturer of Standard Fertilizers.
"a Broad Street, Boston.
Sole agent in the United States for the B d
Seal Fowl Guano.
Boston, Feb. 10, 1869. r.e q.