230 LETTER-FILES OF S. W. JOHNSON 



How to relieve small dealers? — It might be enacted that 

 Grinders of Bones in Connecticut, instead of paying $20 

 analysis fee, should at option pay 50 ets. per ton for product 

 sold, provided they could satisfy the Board of Control (or 

 Executive Committee) of the Station as to the amount of 

 their sales. But making exceptions is troublesome business. 

 I should not favor any exceptions but for grinding Bone. 

 Making superphosphate on a small scale cannot be done so 

 cheaply, nor so well as on a large, — and after all the many 

 farmers and not the few small manufacturers are principally 

 to be considered. 



The present law is very highly spoken of by all with whom 

 I have conversed whose interests are those of consumers of 

 fertilizers. I will send or bring you very soon suggestions 

 for amending the present law. Yours very truly, 



S. W. Johnson. 



(S.W.J. TO J.J. W.) 



May 8th, 1884. 



]\Iy dear Sir, — Prof. Brewer and Dr. Jenkins think I ought 

 to go next week to Atlanta, Ga., to attend a convention called 

 by the Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia to discuss 

 methods of determining "Reverted Phosphoric Acid." There 

 is a very unhappy muddle in this matter already and, with 

 your approval, I will prepare to go and see what can be done 

 to prevent things from getting still more mixed. Yours, 



S. W. Johnson. 



(S. W. J. TO R. B. W.) 



June 3d, 1884. 



Dear Sir, — In answer to yours of May 26th duly received, 

 would say that when the minutes of convention at Atlanta are 

 printed, the committee will elaborate plan of investigation and 

 notify the gentlemen willing to participate, yourself among 

 the rest. 



