Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-09-25

AGRICULTURAL
DRAINING TILE-MODE OF APPLYING
GUANO-CANADIAN RECIPROCITY
BILL.
To the Editor Of the .1mericen Farmer ::

10 the Editor OF TIE .7aertcen Farmer
In answer 10 the inquiries of your South
Carolina correspondent in reference to drain.
ing Tile, ! state, that young Englishmar
by the name of William Lovel, encouraged
by some OF the Agricullurisls of this neigh.
borhood, commenced some two or three
years back the manufacture of draining Tile
near Wilmington in this State In the first
patterns The sole or bottom was separate
from the top, after the then English mode
but last season lac constructed a mould by
which the pipe, of some two inches in d.
ameter, and the sole which is fiat and some
four inches wide, was made in one piece
These were highly approved and sold very
readily. purchased several thousand OF
them myself. The price was s Is a thou
sand each tile being one foot long render
ed them cheaper than any durable material
tina, could be used, and ORDERS as they be-
came known, came in from Pennsy lvana
and New Jersey, and ali manufactured were
readily sold. But poor Lowell became in
the course of last season, the victim of the
cholera, and the business has not been re-
sumed here by any one, but no doubt will
be. To show that Lovel had hit upon the
very latest improvement in Eng gland, refer
you TO the Cd vol. CoIman's European Ag-
ricullure, page 100. The Tile manufactur-
ed by Lovel are identical with what MIR. Col
man there describes to be the last improve
men, in England.
will bring with me TO the Baltimore Ag
ricuI,ural Exhibition one or two Of these
Tile, and will endeavor to suggest to Mrs.
Lovel 10 have present the mould or machi
merry by which they were constructed; pos
sibly the Society may deem il deserving a
premium her husband, poor fellow de-
served much credit for his perseverance and
success in getting them up. The Tile are
made from common brick clay, and burnt
in kiln like common brick, so that they
can be made in any part of the country,
where there is common brick clay.
The price of Guano is SO enormously
high tina. some may prefer to wait for later
arrivals. state for the Information Of such,
that in my experience, an application after
the ground is ploughed, and covering i. with
a cuItiva.or, is as good as pioughing it down.
applied ten tons Of Peruvian last season,
to poor field on a farm in Kent County :;
one half before ploughing, the other after
as above; we could discover no percepti-
BILE difference in the wheat, though carefully
examining it. This we discovered; that on
land or two where the teams had been
driven off by the rain before the guano
had been ploughed down, the wheat was
much less, apparently nearly difference
of one half, SO that guano should be pul
at once below the surface, out Of the way
OF the dew and rains, or large portion
OF its valuable salts will escape and be lost
remember the query was put last season
TO the editor of the s.4meriGnn F"rme"1 ''"e
sSr1 Mhsi a|er lie guano had baen turned I'M
der, would affect the guano; and the ar-
swer, as a matter Of opinion, and for rea-
sons assigned, was in the negative, that it
would not-such is my experience on the
field above alluded to, where by misun-
Outstanding my manager covered some TWEEN
~ acres Of it with dressing of pretty re-
Gently slaked lime; we thought it did good
rather than injury, so that the result of this
involuntary experiment showed that the ed-
tor was right, as he generally is. The GU
ano, in this case, had been ploughed down
two or three weeks before the application
Of the lime.
My guano cost me last season 1860
cash, the long or legal ton. The product
of the field Of 20 acres was 1906 bushels,
which have jus, go. to our Bfandywine
market, where i, brough. me Sl.I5 bushel.
This may pay This season, but considering
the contingencies that attend the wheat crop,
anything like SIS ton added to this, which
she holders in Philadelphia underderstand
are now asking, will not pay, as ! do not
choose to grow wheat for the ''benef. of
commerce" merely, shall not purchase al
any such price.
highly approve the views Of your cor
respondent Agricola; no doubt he is right.
The Peruvian government should by our
government, be possessed of all information
IN reference to the extent Of our market for
the sale of guano-we want a little good
practical business-Ike diplomacy on this
subject, and trust we shall have it, when
she monopoly Of one English House could
probably be broken up, and American Far
mers be furnished with this very valuable
fertilizer al fair and regular prices, which
npld greatly advance our agriculture.
bope your subscribers generally, have,
attend to the suggestion you pro-
hade in late number of the Farmer,
ng up and signing circumstances a
|he Canadian Reciprocity Bill ; we
comply and with great unanimiiy
be premises. The success of this
would be injurious-most IN furious
I'm the opinion Of many it would
reduce the price of wheat twenty
bushel, and oats not less in pro-
orion. They have, it is said, very large
surplus this season, and are ready to take
possession Of our markets; if fer the be-
nefit Of other interests we are to have
our "home market," for the creation and
supper, of which we are heavily taxed,