® ® • POTATOES. • • • 
Southport, Conn., Oct. i, 1892. 
T the suggestion of your agent I tried 
Bradley’s Potato Manure last year and 
was so well pleased with the results 
that I used this brand exclusively on my potato 
crop this season, applying about 500 pounds per 
acre in the hill at time of planting. The photo- 
graph represents a plot of about three acres, 
soil a light loam, with gravelly subsoil ; yield, 
840 bushels of large smooth potatoes of the 
Burbank variety and of excellent quality. 
It is needless to say that I am thoroughly 
pleased with the result. I have used Bradley’s, 
other brands for various crops with equally 
satisfactory returns. 
Charles F. Buekley. 
[ From Hon. Edw. F. Dyer.] 
Dear Sirs : — In comparison with others of my townspeople the 
farming that I do is quite limited in its extent and for this reason I 
feel somewhat delicate in saying much in regard to my experience 
with fertilizers. 
I have used Bradley’s Complete Manure for Potatoes and Vege- 
tables more or less for the past four or five years, testing it side by side 
with other so-called high grade goods, some of which being of con- 
siderable higher cost. 
The “ Complete ” has been applied on different crops, but in gen- 
eral for growing potatoes, and so far as my experience goes with it 
and other goods, the “ Bradley ” has given altogether the best results. 
From the fact that our potatoes (“Bristol Ferries” so called) are 
mostly all grown for the early Boston market, and that the earlier the 
crop is ready for digging the higher will be the price, it is all impor- 
tant that we have a rich and quickly acting fertilizer on which to 
grow them, and in this respect Bradley’s Complete Manure has proved 
to be peculiarly adapted to our needs, having characteristics not gen- 
erally found in other potato manures, in that it pushes the crop ahead 
in the fore part of the season and at the same time has sufficient pro- 
ductive power left to fully carry it out to maturity. 
A former difficulty met with here in growing potatoes on commer- 
cial manures has been that the strength of fertilizers that were quick 
in starting a crop would all be spent before the potatoes were half 
grown, while those that were adapted to fully carrying out the crop 
were too slow in their action to force the potatoes ahead to maturity 
in season to secure the better prices. Not so with the “Bradley,” 
however, for our potatoes which are intended for first digging are 
generally planted on Bradley’s Potato and Vegetable Manure and 
oftentimes alone, without other dressing. 
Another experience we have had with fertilizers, and a serious ex- 
perience, too, is that goods which for the first one or two years gave 
satisfactory results were soon found to have been greatly cut down 
in their valuation and becoming, therefore, for our particular use, al- 
most worthless. As yet Bradley’s Complete Manure has shown no 
signs of a falling off in its productiveness, and I trust that its present 
standard of excellence will be fully maintained ; but in closing I would 
suggest that if fertilizer companies expect to hold our trade the analy- 
sis of their goods must not be cut down, for with our methods of 
farming a slight falling off in strength of the fertilizer used is very 
readily detected. 
(Sgd.) Edward F. Dyer. 
Portsmouth, R. I., Dec. 31, 1892. 
