North Harwich, Mass., Oct. 19, 1891.
I have been in the habit of using Bradley’s Fertilizer on my cranberry bogs for a number of years, and consider it very beneficial. It pushes the new vines along to a bearing condition much earlier than would be the case if left to depend on the natural strength of the soil, and by covering the ground quicker with vines the grass and brush are not so likely to get a start.
It also does well on old vines, increasing the crop, and the size and quality of the berry. Last spring, to my sorrow, I neglected to apply this phosphate to my old bog, and on gathering my crop this fall I found I had made a great mistake. Shall use it another year, without fail.
BENJ. F. HALL.
Harwichport, Mass., Oct. 19, 1891.
I have used Bradley’s Fertilizer for growing cranberries, and find it very beneficial. New vines come to bearing one year earlier by its use, and grass and weeds are crowded out, and do not get the foothold they are apt to where vines grow slowly, and are a long while covering the ground.
Cranberry growers in this section are finding it greatly to their interest to use Bradley’s Fertilizer on their bogs, both new and old.
About the 1st of June, 1891, I put on 100 pounds of Bradley’s Fertilizer on about 60 rods of late vines, set out 20 years ago. On the other side of the ditch were 60 rods of vines, the same age, both done by the same man; in other words, the same conditions exactly, except the Fertilizer. This year I gathered both pieces. The piece to which I applied 100 pounds of Fertilizer yielded 8 barrels of cranberries, the other, barely 1 barrel.
E. B. ALLEN.