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4. That all raannfactiirers of Fertilizers do not, or have 

 not, regarded the exaction from them of a tax as oppressive 

 or unjust would appear from the facts that the first legisla- 

 tion of that kind in this State originated with a manufacturer 

 of fertilizers, and that fertilizer makers and dealers urged 

 the passage of the present law on the ground that it would 

 give steady occupation to honest manufacturers while, other- 

 wise, the frauds practised upon and feared by farmers tended 

 to imsettle the business. Yours very truly, S. W. Johnson. 



(S. W. J. TO F. H. S., ACKNOWTLiEDGING THE RECEIPT OF A NeW 



Edition of Stoker's "Agriculture.") 



New Haven, Conn., Mar. 26, 1887. 



My dear Storer, — The book followed close on your note of 

 20th inst., and has infatuated me even as a love story tempo- 

 rarily (or permanently) crazes a damozel. I found it on 

 returning from a two days attendance on the law-making 

 power at Hartford, and though nearly tired out I sat up 

 'nights over it — at first reading some 100 pages with due 

 consideration, then as the fire got low and the head hot I 

 skimmed the pages — taking cold and waking up next morning 

 with congestion of the two valuable viscerge that secrete bile 

 and thought, from which I am happily recovered. Well, the 

 plot of the story pleases me and the details are worked up in 

 capital shape. I feel relieved by your book of a heavy sense 

 of unread and undigested literature — judicial decisions on 

 natural law — that needed codifying — I have the code now in 

 good shape ! 



To our ag. schools the book will be of the utmost value, and 

 the Exp. St. boom that is expected from the Hatch bill will 

 find within its covers both stimulant and tonic for the sober 

 workers, while those that have more zeal than sense will find 

 it healthfully sedative, it is to be hoped. 



The only drawback I find is that I can't praise the work 



