Market Gardening with Bradley’s Fertilizers. 
By Fernald E. Ham. 
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HAVE used the Bradley Fertilizers for nearly twenty years, and they have paid me so well that I would not 
I now think of carrying on my farm without using them. I have applied them to nearly every crop growm 
in this vicinity, both with and without stable manure, and am convinced that the use of Bradley’s Fertil- 
izers materially increases the farm’s net profits. 
I have an asparagus bed of one and a half acres which has not been dressed with stable manure for the past 
seven years. I apply every spring a ton of Bradley’s Phosphate and nothing else, and average to get $500 worth of 
asparagus yearly from this bed, having cut as high as $90 worth in one week. 
I have made a special test of Bradley’s Fertilizer on squashes, of which I grow six or seven acres every year, 
and the results have justified me in claiming that I would rather have a handful of Bradley’s Fertilizer than a good 
shovelful of the best barnyard manure that can be produced. My former practice was to apply to my squash field 
nine or ten cords of stable manure to the acre ; but I now, by using five cords of manure broadcast and a hand- 
ful of Bradley’s Fertilizer in each hill, get a much more satisfactory crop and with far less labor and expense, the 
work of planting alone not being half what it used to be when we applied the manure in every hill. The Bradley 
Fertilizer is very obnoxious to the black bugs and other insects which feed upon the young plants, and I seldom 
have any trouble from them when I freely use Bradley’s Fertilizer. The picture you have of my squashes is a cor- 
rect photograph of load of squashes that took the first premium at the fair. It may be thought that because I sell 
the Bradley Fertilizers I should not say very much regarding their value, but I feel that my extensive use of them 
for the past twenty years justifies me in making this plain statement of what they have done on my own farm. 
Burlington, Mass., November 29, 1892. 
