Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-04-27
From the Southern Guilty. ator.
HOW TO USE GUANo

Guano comes In bags, and usually contains MANY
Jumps which require to be crushed into-a powder,
before the manure is applied 10 the soil. The humps
are commonly separated from the mass by riddle or
sieve, as Jumps and pebbles separated from sand
In making mortf grain is sometimes sifed by
hand The ammoncal dust that flies off in this OPP
eratlon is pretty the lungs and eyes of the
operator, and is avoided by mostenng the guano ten
or Twelve hours or day before the sitting begins.
The dampness should be barely sufficient to keep the
dust from being diffused through the atmosp here.
The Jumps sifted or riddled out may be moistened
little more, and crushed in making mortar, with
the back of hoe shovel, plank floor or smooth
hard ground.
For corn, it will probably pay better to put the
manure in the hill drill than to scatter it broad
cast over the ground. After the field is ready tor
planting, let hands take guano in buckets on their
arms, and with the two fore first fingers and thumb
of each, take out good pinch Of the snuff and drop
it where the is TO be dropped, spreading the
guano and covering it with little earth, by using
the foot for that purpose. The track of the manure
dropper tells the dropper where the seed should
be placed, while the earth between the guano and
corn prevents the cansticty of the former doing in
jury the germ of the latter which, when it be-
gins TO grow, is tender and easily killed.
The above hints apply to the of guano in cot
ton culture, not less tran to the planting of corn
Bot as cotton seed usually scattered literally in
drills or rows, one way only should hesitate
TO scatter in the same furrow, marking, guano
equal to 200 or 300 lbs. per and both seed
and manure at one operation. A few seeds might be
damaged or killed by the manure, but enough and
more than enough would grow. No injury has ever
resulted from sowing guano and wheat together, and
the covering both with harrow or plow.
1t is only the soluble salts in guano that iniure
any seed and before the germ starts OUT the SALTS
being dissolved by the damp earth, become
SO dfused and diluted, that injury can be done TO
the young plant. If the soil is dry where the guano
is placed. the result might be different. dry
meTs this hot. caustc fertilizer does harm than
good In the Patent Office Report for 1851, the
reader will find great deal of information on this
and many other important Subjects showing the best
practices in farm economy. On page 252, Mr.. Zook,
OF Pa, gives an account of sowing broadcast, 1000
lbs. of guano and 1000 of gypsum a poor field,
badly by 0years' cropping containing acres.
The manure was sown Immediately after the corn
was planted, and the ground narrowed when the corn
two three inches high. The cultivator was
afterwards ran between the rows. The yield was
fifty bushels per This crop made in 1918.
In l849 the field was sown in oats, and TUNED out
over 40 bushels per Mr.. T. estimates the gain
from the guano and plaster at 800 per cent? cost per
Sd SO. Mr.. Mumma of the same State speaks
highly of plaster used corn, and commends the
free of lime. OF the latter he says: So pow
erfu is its effects poor soil, if properly appiied
that on many farms in this county where it has been
used, the value Of the land has been increased 200
per cent, with less than hundred bushels per
acres MIR. Houston, of Delaware, applied 300 lbs
guano per acre. 10 10 eacres of wheat, in 1851. He
prefers blowing it in six inches deep. He says that
lime pays better than guano, taking ten years togeth-
er. But he gets lime cheap, and guano is expensive
every where.
His large experience induces him to say that 100
lbs of this will give ten bushels of corn on
poor land. Mr. Wright, very successful farmer of
Delaware, says that guano is too high for profit to
the cultivator. Mr.. Walsh says: - Guano is also |
used on crop, but the same extent as |
to wheat. 1t adds materially the gain OF the crop
increasing it, should think, when 800 lbs are used
at least two-fold."
Mr.. Charles Yancey, of Buckine ham county, Va,
says: In the fall Of 1850 purchased ten tons of
guano, ploWed under before stated (hree inch
es deeP) using about 200 lbs per acre, and seeded
wheat, leaving occasional beds, not guanoed Yer
lily, tie eye said the guanoed wheat would yield
doubie.''
We think Eavorably of the following practices Of
Mr.. Y, although from the drouth last year, it was
nearly failure: s. The ground when prepared was
checked in squares three feet four inches; table,
spoonful Of guano scattered upon the check
the killing closed up to prevent the escape of he
the hills were cut off four inches above /
and planted in May. The drought prevented the
plants taking root, or bringing the guano into soIu-
ticn. There was no growth whatever until the 9th
July, when we had rain; the growth was then in
week wonderful-the plants attained fine size. A
second drouth occurred in September and October,
which protracted the rPening and the plants faded
and assumed yellow hue.'' Mr.. Yancey regards
guano powerful stinuIant but too expensive for
general Our notion is, that one may use guano
10 make crop OF corn at profit, if he will make
he corn ray fair price in meat, and yield as much
good manure for producing second crop of corn and
neat as the equivalent of the guano. In other ods
his costly commercial manure cannot be proftablv
purchased to grow corn for commercial purposes,
or home consumption, where all the elements of the
seeds, cobs blades and stalks may be say, d as ma @
ure-the equivalent of III guano, and more too i
his dung of sea birds may be brought to increase
mes corn, cotton seed and lint: d. LEE. f
ANOTHER BOURBON IN THE FIELD. 4 Montgomery, +
Ma, paper lately affirmed that Bocsha, the harpst
nd composer (who has quite Bourbon feaures) was !,
he son of Egalite, Duke of Orleans, and, ~
ueny, half brother Louis Philippe. Being "
sked if the report was true, witty musician, who
eldom loses the opportunity of joke, answered Sc
ously: W
" 1t may be-indeed have heard and seen stranger =
lings during my long public life; but sincerely
ope that busy friends will hastily in the
latter, and endeaver TO overthrow for my snke the
overnment of the nephew of my first and revered
atroD, Napoleon l., as should be obliged to de-
line the mountaineering very pleasant and safe
-own.;'
g How is shat ?" replied the interrogation.
How My dear sir said Bocsha, drawing him
IF up his full height and breadth, s. l am King
the Harp, and am recognized as the legitimate !
cir to King David. Ny Government is based on
armony and concord ing policy is to keep my in
runent well in tune and please indiscriminately,
hIgs and Democrats; my ministers, at home and
broad, Qhe mnsic sellers and hotel keepers) spread
r and wide my fame and name my relations with Sc
reign powers most friendly v, and when | recent
visited the crowned heads of Europe, they paid mot
lily great attention to my solos, but even Melternich
ellington and Nesselrode applauded my fantasies
I'd bowed TO my caPrices; ing ukase or proclama-
ons are only good, snowy concert bills; nv coups
e0t aim solely at getting from Italy the best catgut
rings am at war with nobody and if some ~