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SOUTHERN" PLANTER.— ADVERTISING SHEET. 



Dr. Whitely was the third person who used the Manipulated Guano in Mary- 

 land ; myself and Mr. Davison only preceding him. The Manipulated Guano 

 he refers to was bought of me in the latter part of February or March, and pre- 

 vious to my arrangement with Mr. John S. Reese. Dr. Whitely is one of the 

 most venerable men of our State, and known by thousands. 



" I purchased three tons of your ''Manipulated Guano" before it was intro- 

 duced to the public, solely upon my personal confidence in you, and the theory 

 which you advanced. I used it upon corn, and with such satisfaction, that I 

 again purchased of you for my wheat crop, during your arrangement with Mr. 

 Reese. As manipulated by you, I have no hesitation or reserve in recommend- 

 ing it to the public. WM. WHITELY." 



Baltimore, March 2d, 1858. 



John Kettle well, Esq : 



My Dear Sir: — 'You directed ray attention to a card, by John S. Reese, published in the 

 Southern Fanner, and solicit rriy views relative to the matter at issue. 1 stated in a letter to 

 you, published in your pamphlet, that I had advised you, indeed urged, to introduce the "Manipu- 

 lated Guano." Sometime previous to your arrangement with Mr. Reese, having seen your ex- 

 periments on your farm, and having tested it myself, and knowing that such a combination by 

 machinery could not but succeed, and- about the time of your arrangement with Mr. Reese, I 

 remember well of his getting my views relative to the whole matter, and making enquires as 

 to your experiments. I should hardly suppose there could be any ane in Baltimore, at*all ac- 

 quainted with the facts, that would doubt for a moment that by you and through you, this val- 

 uable fertilizer was made known to the public ; and! am more surprised that Mr. Reese would 

 attempt to speak disparagingly of your able and competent foremen, Mr. Wheltree, even by 

 implication. I hate been a manufacturing Chemist many years in Baltimore, now of New 

 York, with full opporiunity of judging of Mr. Wheltree as a man in every way. He was in 

 my employ for several years, understood the manufacture of various chemicals, and, in some of 

 the departments had charge. I considered him competent to manufacture any chemical em- 

 braced in my catalogue. lie cannot be placed as an ordinary laboring man in any sense, but 

 thoroughly competent to take charge of any business that he would assume to do. I consider 

 that you are exceedingly fortunate in secdring the services df such a man, and your agricultu- 

 ral friends nlay rest assured that they are safe as long as he has charge of the manufacturing 

 department. Most truly yours, &o. WM. DAVISON. 



Mr. Davison is a member of the highly respectable houses of Davison & Co., Lombard st., 

 Baltimore, and Davison, Myer & Wilson, No. 143. 



Baltimore, March 1st, 1858. 



John Kettlewell, Esq: 



Dear Sir: — In answer to your note of this date, I beg leave to state, that previous to your 

 connexion with Mr. J. S.Reese, in the manipulation of Peruvian Guano, you applied to me to 

 join you in the above named business, which, as you are aware, I declined doing, because I 

 was "heavily engaged in the Peruvian Guano trade, and was unwilling to push my operations 

 so extensively beyond it to any new article ; at the same time, I suggested to your notice the 

 natiias of some other gentlemen. In reference to your last enquiry, I would state I hate al- 

 ways considered you as the originator of this mode of applying Peruvian Guano to the pro- 

 duction of crops. Yours very truly and respectfully, ROBT. TURNER. 



Baltimore, March 2d, 1858. 



John Kettlewell, Esq : 



Dear Sir: — In reply to yours of the 1st irtst., we have to say, that as early as December, 

 1855, or January, 1856, you applied to us to Us to join you in the manipulations or mixing of 

 Guano by machinery. As dealers in manure, we declined, not wishing to be connected in any 

 way with the manufacture of them. 



Whatever particular merit there may be in the making of Guano by machinery, you as the 

 originator, we think, are entitled to it. Very respectfully, J. J. & F. TURNER. 



Jg^ My Maniplated Guano, Nos. 1 and 2 can always be had of my Agents, Messrs. 

 DEANE, IIOBSON & JAMES, Richmond, Va. Sept, 1800— It 



