• • • POTATOES. • • • 
I HAVE used Bradley’s Fertilizers more or less for a number of years, and for the past six 
years have been using their higher priced goods, viz: Bradley’s Complete Manure for Pota- 
toes and Vegetables, and in my business of growing early potatoes for the Boston market 
find it more economical to buy this class of goods than to use cheaper grades. 
Earliness is of great importance with potato growers here, and I have never seen anything that 
would start potatoes quicker, bring them to earlier maturity, or would produce larger crops than 
Bradley’s Complete Manure; and from the fact that I am cultivating more acres than my stable 
manure is sufficient for, I am often obliged to depend quite largely on the fertilizer for growing 
my crops. I began digging my early potatoes the past season on the ioth day of July, they 
being grown on Bradley’s Complete Manure, and when the whole field was dug out found the 
yield to be eighty-four barrels to the acre. It is quite probable, had the crop been allowed 
to get fully grown, the yield would have been nearly or quite one hundred barrels of marketable 
potatoes to the acre. The fine quality of these potatoes was highly commented upon by the party 
receiving them at the Bristol Ferry R. R. Station. The photograph you have is of the above field. 
I have an asparagus bed of a little rising an acre on which I use Bradley’s lower priced goods 
with no other dressing, and sold the past season 2,100 lbs. of asparagus from the bed. I am also 
in the habit of growing seeds of various kinds on Bradley’s Fertilizers. 
C. C. Mitchell. 
Bristol Ferry, R. I., Dec. 1, 1892. 
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