• • • GRASS AND CORN. • • • 
Hadley, Mass., Nov. 3, 1892. 
I HAVE lately bought a small place that for lack of 
previous care the land had become badly run 
down, and not having any stable manure at all, 
I have depended the past season entirely on Bradley’s 
Complete Manure for growing my crops, and as I have 
been more than pleased with the result, I forward you 
this statement. 
On a piece of grass land, the condition of which was so 
poor that your agent discouraged the experiment, I ap- 
plied about 500 pounds to the acre of Bradley’s Complete 
Manure for Top-dressing Grass and Grain. The result was 
an astonishment both to me and everybody else who saw 
the crop and knew the previous condition of the land. 
The hay was not weighed, but by the best estimation ar- 
rived at there were not less than two and three fourths 
tons to the acre, and in addition to this a fair crop of 
rowen was cut on a portion of the field. You have a 
photograph of this crop. 
On my corn land, which has had no stable manure for 
the past five or six years, I applied 1,200 pounds per acre 
of Bradley’s Complete Manure with no other dressing. 
The crop was the biggest ever grown in this section, it be- 
ing so admitted. The corn as husked was kept count of 
and the land measured, and from one acre and 126 rods of 
ground 296 bushels of “ Longfellow” corn were harvested. 
The fodder was also heavy. 
W. L. Smith. 
This is to certify that the subscriber assisted in husking and meas- 
uring the above corn, and knows the statement to be correct. 
L. R. Smith. 
Hadley, Mass., Dec. 5, 1892. 
I measured W. L. Smith’s corn land with a tape measure and find 
286 rods of ground, one and 126-160 acres. 
Yours respectfully, G. Frank Smith. 
Chartley, Mass., August 17, 1892. 
My business is jewelry manufacturing, but I have a farm which 
has become considerably run down, so much so that the mowing 
fields were producing but a very small crop of fine or June grass. 
On inquiring in regard to what I could clo to increase my hay crop, 
was advised to try some of Bradley’s Complete Manure for Top-dress- 
ing Grass and Grain. 
This I decided to do and the results shown are surprising both to 
myself and my neighbors. 
A good amount of herds-grass was brought in adding to the qual- 
ity, and my crop was increased to about two tons per acre. 
This, of course, is not an unusual crop, but, everything considered, 
was quite beyond my expectation. 
The land on which your Top-dressing was applied has been seeded 
about fifteen years, and for six or seven years past has received neither 
stable nor other manure. 
I consider the money paid for your Grass Fertilizer well invested, 
and purpose now using a larger amount of it another season. 
Yours truly, Frank P. Barney. 
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