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.
Of the solution, when prepared, it takes about one gallon to a
square rod, applied in the form of a spray as fine as possible.
For this purpose the “Nixon Pump” is the most effective among the
many that I have ever tested. The application should be made upon
the first appearance of the worms; any delay resulting often in
entire loss of crop, since nothing but flowage will kill the larger
worms. Another and more convenient solution is obtained from Hill’s
Extract of Tobacco--two or three quarts to a barrel of water. This
requires no heating, and may be prepared at a moment’s notice. My
sales last year of this Extract amounted to over eight hundred
gallons.
Respectfully yours,
FRANKLIN CROCKER.