Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-04-17
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Action and wethod Of Using auane

we have to reply; that, on such lands, its
action should be most manifest-most ben
efcial-coutaiiiing rs it does, in state tc
be availed of, those substances which
plants need, which such land is most de-
ticient in, and without supply of which,
they cannot grow in mxuliance and per.
tection. The non-action of the guano
upon all the kinds of vegetables, with the
exception of one to which he applied it,
arose no doubt from the cause assigned
by our observant friend, viz: the drought
of the summer Guano, like all other
kindred manures, requires moisture to
bring out its virtues; nor can the plants
avail themselves CT any food that may be
in the ground, no matter how congenial it
may be, until that food, through the
agency of water, be reduced to liquid,
or gaseous form, it is one or the other OF
these forms which imparts to the rootlets
of plants the power of feeding.
With regard to the mode of using gu
ano, we give it as our opinion, which we
advanced from the beginning, and have
never seen any cause to change it, that
guano never should be applied without
being mixed with plaster, to .fr and pre-
vent the escape and waste of its ammonia
cal constituents. Before being used, 25
lbs of plaster should be mixed with every
100 lbs. of Guano. This mixture should
be broadcasted over the ground and
ploughed, or spaded in. We believe that
any manure of the concentrated nature of
guano, abounding as it does in the ele-
ments of ammonia in almost every state,
can but rarely be used safely, except as a
broadcast dressing, and that it cannot be
advantageously used in the hill or drill,
except when mixed with a large proper
ton, say twenty to one, Of mould or some
other substance of similar nature, and
even then, that such compost should be
placed so deep as that the seed, sets, or
plants should not come in immediate con.
tact with it.
If we were going to apply it to pota-
toes in the hill, if we did not use it COM
posted with large body of mould as
above, we would use it thus-after mixing
the guano with plaster, we would strew
the mixture on the bottom of the furrow
or drill, and then cover that with an inch
or so of wood-mould, or other kindred
substance, and upon this plant the pota-
to sets, and cover the whole over.
In using it on watermelon hills, we
would act thus: at the point for forming
the hill, we would make hole with the
hoe, and there deposite the mixture OF
guano and plaster, mix it in with the earth,
and raise the hill upon it from the sur
rounding mould; or we would mix 200
lbs. of guano with so lbs. of plaster, and
then compost it with 8 loads of wood.
mould, marsh mud, or like substance
place shovelful at the bottom of every
hill we might raise. By either Of these
modes the vines would derive all the bene.
fit from the virtues of the guano, without
any injury. The volatile portions would
ascend and feed the rootlets of the melon
plants, while the roots would descend and
feast upon those of the constituent ele-
ments of guano that are not volatile.
A solution of guano might be made in
the proportion of l lb. of guano and 10
gallons of water, with which the melon
plants might be very advantageously wa
tered in times of drought. Such solu-
ton would prove doubly useful, first, in
protecting the vines from the effects of
drought, and secondly by afording them
direct food-food of nature adapted to
their wants, as the water would decom-
pose the ammonia Of the guauo, deprive
it of the power Of harm, and prepare it
to be taken up as pabulum.
We will add another remark, in order
to answer question from another quar-
ter. We believe the best way to apply
guano to tobacco, is to sow it broadcast
over the ground and plough it in-and,
that if applied to the hill, it should be
mixed with one-fourth its weight Of plas-
ter, and for every 100 lbs. of the guano,
three loads of woods mould should be
composted with it. In Peru, guano is ap.
piled to the crops at each time of work.
ing; but all such applications, are follow.
ed by immediate irrigation; the water ol
which, by decomposing the ammonia Of
the manure, prevents all resulting injury.
and ensures benefit to the growing plants
Where wheat crop is to follow the
tobacco, we would, by all means, broad,
cast and plough the guano in. If treated
to plaster and ploughed in, we have no
question but that the good effects of the
guano would be apparent during the or
dinary period of a rotation.-American
Farmer.
TURNING IN GREEN CRors. Samuel
Eager, of Worthington, in letter to
Samuel L. Hinckley, Secretary of the
Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden Ag.
ricultural Society, gives the following
result of an experiment in "turning in
crops, either green or dry, as manure,
submitting the same as an application
for premium, under the first division oi
Experiments on Manure" offered by
said Society. We copy from the Brat.
tze6orough Eagle.
"The experiment has occupied several
years, and | have devoted no little time
and attention to the subject, am happy
tn saw. with the most satisfactory result