The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

PHOSPHO GUANO

Contssetnrs 'h.& Mark ___pinny's Trade Mark
mins PR ICES, including cost of bags, carriage re* at any railway station or shipping port
in the kingdom, are as follow :-
For 10 tons and upwards .
For Ave tons up to 10 tons
For manor quantities.

£l2 0 0 per ton
12 5 0 „
12 10 0 „

10a. per ton discount for oath within a month.

To prevent fraud, all bap are branded with the Pboapho Guano Company's Trade Mark, as well as that of
the Contractors.
Report by Dr. Voelair of • visit of inspection to the PHOSPRO GUANO STORES at Searsombe,
Birkenhead, and of analyses of samples taken from the Stores, on the 9th of February, 1866
In compliance with Messrs. Peter Lawson and Son's condition in which I found the whole bulk, ready for
request, I spin this year paid • visit of inspection to delivery in the present salami.
the Phospho Guano Storm at &moilibe, Birkenhead, Since my hat visit • decided improvement has been
and On that occasion took the following samples from effected in the mechanical condition of the Phospho
he bulk : Guano. The bulk for 1866, while fully as rich in letha-
l. A sample from a bulk of about 1,000 tons, stored in stonily valuable fertilising constituents, is now obtained
Shed No. 1. in a beautifully fine and uniform media n, which it
2. A portion from • heap of about 4,000 tons, in abed maintains even when submitted to pressure or violent
No. 3. agitation.
3. A sample from about 5,000 tons, stored in shed Much practical inconvenience is frequently experienced
No. t in the use of artificial manures rich in soluble pboe-
4. A sample token from the top of heap of about phate of lime, inasmuch as such manures, although dry
7,000 tons, in shed No. 7. and in good condition when they leave the stores, be-
5. A sample from the middle of the same bulk, come sticky or lumpy during their transport, without
6. A sample from the bottom of the same bulk, gaining any appreciable quantity of moisture. This
7. Men were at work filling barrels for foreign ship- serious inoonventenoe has been entirely overcome by an
went from a hulk of about 7,000 tons, and I took • improved plan of preparation, and the Pbo pho Guano
sample from the barrels ready for delivery, can now be sent to any distance, or be subjected to any
IL A sample from • lot of about 2,000 tons lying in reasonable amount of pressure, without losing its fine
the docks in which Pbospho Game is prepared for use. and dry powdery coodition.
Two of the samples I submitted to careful and com. Raving no frequently expressed an opinion of the
plow analyser ; in the other' I determined only the intrinsic fertilising value o Phospho Guano, I need not
amount of soluble and insoluble phosphates. The mean repeat former statements on the present °melon ; bet
result, of the eight analyses gave 40.02 per cent of I may be permitted prominently to dwell upon the feet,
.ojoblo phosphates, and 4.67 of insoluble, while the that Millet the chemical composition of the bulk of
ammonia averaged 3.77 per cent. 1866 is fully equal to the Phoepho Guano of former years,
I waseooduated over the whole range of the exteve its mechanical eondition ham been greatly improved.
onildinp, and left at liberty to select as many samples AUGUSTUS VOBLOKER, Pb. D. Professor of
'es I oboes, and to take them from any portion of the Chemistry to the Royal Agricultural Society of Eagland
stores ; and I cannot retreat from noticing that, while No. 11, Sellsbury-equare, Fleet-street, Landes, KC
doing so, I was mush struck by the remarkably fine February 94, 1866.
There are authorised agents appointed for the sale of Phrapho Guano in all the principal towns and villages
in the Uhited Kingdom, but where any diffioulty exists In prooming supplies, orders may be sent direst to
Feria Lswaost and 60d, George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh, or 26, ILing-strimt, Cliespside, London.
PETER LAWSON and SON, Contractors.
or The attention of farmers is particularly directed to the fact that Phosphn Guano is the only manors,
the quality of which is vouched for by chemist' of high standing, who here themselves visited the bulky and drawn
their own maniples for analysis.
AGENT WILLIAM DICK, Gunville, Blandford. Dorset.

ROBERT HAZEL,
..m. go ost a oilikpr, a complaint too frequently and too truly mad.
IRONMONGER, DORCHESTER,
BEGS leave to invite attention to hie improved CULTIVATOR. It is in itself a thorough and
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dteaudveree ovit.nuabgavii.llM,
theOr 01111, he ussa as a Purina Plough. It las great strength end eo far IL H.
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against others.
Hear what one respectable Farmer says :—" I have riven you- cultivator some ver7 severs trials and it
I•twov• "mimbir, nod when in nee it will pear owl ia 'fortnight."
A large nod well-selected stock of Passes of siltraal dalligut and patteraa always On hand.
• goad and efill-esleeted stook el Memo Good..
Mee !ire Xi 4 via low row.
Odthiesr, July SI '