Bradley’s Superphosphate, “the old reliable,” has been successfully used in the cultivation of Cranberries for many years past.
It is, as every one knows, the best general fertilizer on the market. By practical experience, and not by fallacious (though plausible) theories, it has demonstrated its entire fitness for growing the best Cranberries and producing the largest crops. It has been repeatedly noticed that Cranberries grown on this fertilizer are more highly colored, harder, and better “keepers” than those raised under ordinary conditions of cultivation.
As Bradley’s Phosphate contains the very choicest quality of plant foods in such forms and proportions as long practical experience has demonstrated will most fully satisfy the demands of the crop for a complete and nutritious fertilizer, it wholly meets the requirements of the Cranberry, as has been abundantly proven by exhaustive tests on the largest bogs.
A “Special Fertilizer” for Cranberries, claimed to be “based on their analysis,” may be taking with some; but this is only an idea,—a theory without practice to support it, an advertising dodge to catch the uninitiated. The theory of feeding plants on this basis was exploded long ago both at home and abroad; and while formerly one manufacturer of “Special Fertilizers” advertised twenty-four special crop formulas, he now sells but ten, and the analyses of these are totally different from the original formulas which were represented as accurate demonstrations of the “discovery,” so called.
Professor Johnson, Director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, and one of the best authorities on agricultural chemistry of this country, has said: “In honest truth, there is no possibility of compounding special fertilizers adapted to each of our various crops, nor even to our various classes of crops. Special manures for particular crops are, in fact, least heard of where agriculture is guided by the clearest light of science and the widest range of experience.”
Professor Atwater, recently Director of the Experiment Stations of the United States at Washington, has stated: “There is no best fertilizer for any crop, and the formulas to fit all cases are out of the question.” So do not be caught by this theory snare, and pay four or five dollars a ton extra on your fertilizer for that “idea.”
Bradley’s Superphosphate has stood the test of nearly thirty years, and its sales are far greater than that of any other fertilizer on the market. It is the acknowledged Standard, so recognized by its strongest competitors, whose favorite argument is that their fertilizer is “equal to Bradley’s.” “There are tricks in all trades,” but no trick can undermine the stability of an article so universally recognized as the standard of excellence in its class as Bradley’s Phosphate.
The following letter may serve to answer inquiries about “Insecticide.”
Hyannis, Mass., Feb. 22, 1892.
In regard to tobacco as an insecticide, I submit the following: Tobacco solution is prepared by steeping tobacco stems in warm water, using from one and a half to two pounds of stems to a gallon of water, according to strength of stems in the nicotine principle. So far, the larger growers prefer the stems from the Missouri-river region, and for this purpose I ordered six car-loads last Saturday from that section for the use of growers the coming season.