• • • CABBAGES. • • • 
AVING grown, the past season, about seven acres of unusually fine cabbage, and in doing 
so made some comparative tests with stable manure, ground bone, and Bradley’s Com- 
plete Manure, it will doubtless be of interest to you to know of the result. The tests 
were made on sward land ; a part of it, after being duly prepared for receiving the crop, was fer- 
tilized in the following manner : — 
Part i. Ground bone in connection with fertilizer, in the hill as top-dressing. 
Part 2. Stable manure alone. 
Part 3. Bradley’s Complete Manure alone. 
The crop flourished well and was all good, but during all the season, as well as when fully 
matured, the cabbages on part three, where nothing but Bradley’s Complete Manure was applied, 
were decidedly ahead of those on the other parts of the field ; and as I have formerly been some- 
what skeptical on the subject of commercial fertilizers, I am greatly astonished at the results 
of my experiment. The cabbages grown on part three, where nothing but Bradley’s Complete 
Manure was applied, are shown in the photograph you have of a section of my field. 
I now feel bound to state that the season’s experience has thoroughly established my confidence 
in Bradley’s Complete Manure, and, notwithstanding its higher cost, I believe there is more econ- 
omy in using it than in buying cheaper grades, and especially is this so when largely depending 
on commercial fertilizer for the growing of a crop. 
Framingham, Mass., Nov. 23, 1892. 
Truly yours, 
F. H. Sanger. 
