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ture to undertake to choke me off, when I have something to 

 say. 



The Chairman. You must allow me to say, that there 

 has been no attempt to choke you off. You have occupied 

 your full portion of the time. While I believe in free speech, 

 I cannot allow the insinuation to be made, that there has, been 

 any attempt to choke you off. You have already occupied 

 twenty-five minutes of the time. 



Mr. Lawrence. It rather chokes me off, when I was 

 about to speak on the point on which we have been abused. 

 What I was going to say on the matter of fraud, was simply 

 this : Prof. Goessmann, in his last report to the Amherst 

 Agricultural College, has analyzed a number of phosphates. 

 Now, compare the agricultural value, if you please, with the 

 price in the market. I think he says Bradley's is worth 

 $47 a ton. As a matter of course, we must add the price 

 of the barrels, and the .cost of transportation. I say nothing 

 about our own article, because the gentleman gives us even 

 more than we ever claimed, all the way through, as to money- 

 value. He also gives an analysis of Mr. iiussell Coe's super- 

 phosphate, and of Mr. E. Frank Coe's, and they do not 

 either of them find a word of fault. We cannot see, to save 

 our souls, where the matter of fraud comes in. 



Mr. Strong, of Newton. I feel that the result of this 

 discussion will be to leave the impression that there is no 

 help for the farmers of Massachusetts, except the exercise of 

 their ordinary shre^vdness in the matter of the purchase of 

 superphosphates. It was said by Dr. Loring, in the early 

 stages of this discussion, that, in his opinion, the time would 

 come when superphosphates would take the place of animal 

 fertilizers. I am not prepared to go as far as Dr. Loring; 

 but I go so far as to say (and I think every one in the house 

 will go as far as that) that this is an exceedingly important 

 discussion, and I can understand why it was that, when Dr. 

 Loring said that the farmer should refrain from the purchase 

 of commercial fertilizers for one year, as the remedy for the 

 eyils under which they now suffer, our friend from Herkimer 

 feared lest there should be a steady stream through the 

 Hoosac to New York. But we are interested for another 

 reason. I do not believe that this violent interference with 



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