• • • ONIONS. • • • 
Westport, Conn., Oct. 5, 1892. 
The field of onions was a piece of wild land which had 
not been plowed within the memory of the oldest inhabi- 
tant and had received no attention in any way. 
Last year, after twice plowing, 1 planted it to corn, and 
this season with a fair coating of stable manure and 1,600 
lbs. of Bradley’s Fertilizer per acre, grew a fine crop of 
white onions. 
I have used Bradley’s goods this season side by side 
with other fertilizers with such a marked difference in favor 
of the Bradley that I intend hereafter to use that only. 
Henry F. Rippe. 
Green’s Farms, Conn., Oct. 10, 1892. 
The photograph sent you shows an onion field of 9^ acres, on the 
farm of my father, A. C. Taylor. We used one ton of Bradley’s Fer- 
tilizer per acre and the crop yielded 200 barrels of onions per acre of 
fine quality. 
For a number of years we have used these fertilizers extensively 
and always with good results, not only for onions but corn, potatoes, 
and seeding to grass. Our potatoes this year yielded 250 bushels 
per acre of large handsome tubers. Edward J. Taylor. 
FTadley, Mass., Nov. 25, 1892. 
I have had two years’ experience with Bradley’s Complete Manure 
for Potatoes and Vegetables, and become convinced that it is the best 
fertilizer the market affords. 
I was invited last year to furnish, a testimonial, but while I was 
well pleased with the goods I did not feel that, with the one year’s 
trial, I was warranted in putting myself into print on the subject, but 
with a second year’s trial, more satisfactory than the first, being more 
extensive, I now express my convictions. 
From the much scientific teaching of late years I have been led to 
accept the theory of special fertilizers : That if best results were to 
be obtained, we must buy a fertilizer expressly compounded for the 
single crop that was to be grown. That if it was potatoes we wish to 
grow, we must buy a fertilizer tagged “ potato ” ; if corn, marked 
“corn”; if turnip, marked “turnip”; and so on through the whole 
category of the various crops grown. Not that I supposed the theory 
of specials needed to be carried to quite this extreme, but considered, 
nevertheless, the theory in general to be correct. 
My experience, however, with Bradley’s Complete Manure has 
given me an object lesson which has entirely vanquished all the ideas 
entertained in the theory of special manuring, except to a limited 
extent. 
I have used Bradley’s Complete Manure on almost all crops, and 
for each it has proved the best fertilizer I ever used on my farm. I 
have never tried it on tobacco, but have seen it tried by others with 
good results. 
I grew nine acres of corn the past season with Bradley’s Complete 
Manure alone, on land that had received no stable manure for six or 
seven years past ; 1,000 pounds per acre of the “ Complete ” being 
applied. The average yield of the whole field, the corn being meas- 
ured as husked, was 130 bushels (ears) to the acre, and the best of 
corn too. 
I have also used the same, Bradley’s Complete Manure, this year 
on potatoes, Hungarian, and buckwheat with gratifying results, the 
photograph you have showing my buckwheat in bloom. (See page 2.) 
If one single brand of fertilizer will produce the best of results on 
every crop we grow (and thus far Bradley’s Complete Manure has filled 
the bill), why need we farmers pay further attention to the specials 
theory, except in a common sense way. George B. Smith. 
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