The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-03-29
From the Winsboro' Register.

MEssRs. ED1ToRs AS there are many of
our farmers who are about to experiment
with Guano, beg leave to furnish yon with
the following extract from Colman's European
agriculture, as to its application. "Compar-
isons made between Guano and other man
ures, are not quite satisfactory in respect to
quantities, because it is obviously very dllti
cult to institute any instructive comparison
between SO many pounds of Guano and so
many loads of manure. Manure is so various
in its nature, quality, bulk, &c, but it will
be quite easy to compare the two in respect to
the ease or difficulty of their transportation
and of their application to the plant or SOIL
Comparison, likewise, in respect to the cost of
different applications, as made here, would be
of little use in the United States, as prices OF
manure and labor are totally different; and
the one can afford no rule for the other. In
this matter the farmers of tie United States
must Judge for themselves. The quantity
which 1t is deemed best to apply, varies from
two hundred weight to four hundred weight or
FIVE hundred wcig ght Frequent cases have oc,
cured of the application OF five hundred
weight and eight hundred weight to a statute
acre with great advantage. Cases are on re-
cord of twenty-nne and thirty hundred weight
being applied to grass land with great, but
not most certainly, remuneratlng increase
of crop. met one farmer in Lincolnshire,
who thought more than one hundred we'y mt
applied to turnips was unnecessary; but the
almost universal testimony is in favor OF three
hundred weight. A bushel of sifted guano
weighs from, ffty.two to fifty four pounds. In
regard to the mode of application, it is well
settled that it should seldom be applied alone
To garden vegetables, or green house plants,
it may be applied in a state of solution in wa.
ter. In field cultivation, it msy be applied by
being mixed with four or six times its quaint
ty Of dry earth or mould. In this way, it may
be sown broadcast over the field, and then
lightly narrowed or turned in; or it may be
sown, first in the same drill where the seed is
to be dropped; Sgreat care must be taken,
however that il does not come in contact with
the seed or it will destroy its vegetatlve pow
ers. Its desirable that it should be covered
as soon as may be, after being sown lhe
best farmers give caution against mixing 1t
with lime, or bones, or wood ashes, as these
substances, coming in contact with it, Will
drive off its ammonia Where portion OF
barn manure has been applied in conjunction
with Guano, the mixture has been found much
more etlicacious than the manure when applied
alone. In an application which saw, Guano
gave seven tons of turnip increase to an acre
over an artificial manure which had been much
praised, and was applied at the same time. A
good mode of preparing it for application is to
mix it with fine earth, on the head lands OF
the field where it is to be used, forming it, with
the earth, into alternate layers, in the proper
tion of earth to the guano of three to one
and after it has remained two or three days,
thoroughly incorporating them together by
turning over the heap.
Peruvian Guano, 100 parts consisting of 8
parts of Ammonia combined with PhosphorIc,
carbonic uric and organic acids,
Forming of Ammoniacal salts. ........4 40
Animal organic matter. r............... -
Suphate and Muriate off Patash and Soda ii
Phosphate of Lime and Masnesia. % l-2
Sand. ...............
w ater,. ...ll -
100
The Peruvian contains II l-2 parts of uric
acid, and this is the cause fits superiority over
all other Guanos. AGfiCOLA.
y DEL$. Kcnncdy's Butter Crackers.