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thiit I have gone out of it because it did not pay ; because I 

 could not manufacture an lionest article and sell it at a profit. 



Dr. Loriug has referred to the fertilizer, which is being 

 made at Brighton. It is the good fortune of myself and 

 partner to be connected with that firm, as the sole agents of 

 •the fertilizer, and as the superintendents of its manufacture. 

 The fertilizer is made, as perhaps many of you are aware, 

 from the blood, the head-bones, the scraps and offal of the 

 cattle and sheep slaughtered at that establishment, after the 

 tallow is pressed from them. The works have been in opera- 

 tion about four months. They are now slaughtering from 

 two hundred to three hundred head of cattle a day, and from 

 fifteen hundred to two thousand sheep. And we should be 

 pleased to show any farmer the whole process from beginning 

 to end, or, if he desires, he can go there alone. He can see 

 the ox as it comes into the stall to be killed ; he can see his 

 carcass hung up in the cooling-house ; he can see his blood in 

 a liquid form, and in five hours, he can see it 'brought out in 

 the form of a dry, fine powder, and a better fertilizer was 

 never put on our lands. Dr. Loring has said that much of 

 this material was being sold to Southern manufacturers of fer- 

 tilizers to be extended, and I will state that, we have sent 

 one hundred tons to Georgetown, D. C, for which the man- 

 ufacturer there paid us a good price ; and out of every ton, 

 he will make two or three tons of a fertilizer which he sells 

 to go South. Now, we do not propose to do any such thing 

 at Brighton. We propose to take the article as it comes out 

 of the factory, and sell it directly to the formers. One gen- 

 tleman, a manufacturer from New York, said tome, "Why 

 do you do that? It will kill everything the farmers attempt 

 to raise with it." My reply was, " Farmers can extend it as 

 well as we can." 



Reference has been made to the Stassfurt potash salts. 

 Undoubtedly, the Stassfurt salts are the cheapest source for 

 potash in this market. We are mixing these potash salts 

 with this fertilizer which is being made at Brighton, and it 

 works very admirably indeed. The salts are neutral in their 

 chemical action, and do not affect the fertilizer until they are 

 moistened, and when moistened, then they act upon the 

 bone, the blood and the meat, and hasten its decomposition ; 



