The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-07-20
Facts about GuaMo.

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was first recommended to the notice of
farmers in England and Scotland, as
substitute for farm-yard manure, or an
auxiliary. Notwithstanding the incredul-
ity and caution with which its claims were
at first received, there is now an importa-
ton annually of about 10000 tuns into
the different ports of Great Britain, which
at an average of f10 per ton would
amount to an expenditure of one million
five hundred thousand pounds sterling, or
about 7, 500, 900 dollars, on thisone foreign
manure alone. In one county Of Scot
land-that of East Lothian--it is estima
ted that from 12 to 18 shilings sterling
are expended for guano and other porta-
bic manures for every acre of the cultiYs-
ted land. Indeed, sometimes as much as
forty shillings' worth of guano, or nearly
ten dollars's worth, is applied to one sim
gle acre. A case Of this kind is mention
ed in the last No. of the Journal of the
Royal Agricultural Society. On a very
inferior piece of land, 70, which only TWEEN
shillings was paid as rent, as much as
forty six shillings' worth Of guano was ap-
piled to every acre, the crop abundantly.
justifying this very liberal expenditure.
The beneficial results from the use Of
guano, if not always the greatest, are at
least always the most observable, when
applied to poor, or worn-out soils-such
as cannot be made to produce a remuner-
ating crop by ordinary means. On such
soils it will often be found to pay TO apply
200 or 800 lbs. of guano, at an expence of
SIS or 80, when guano costs $50 per ton.
When applied to soils in good condition,
the increase in the crop is not SO observa-
Bile; but the increase of crop is generally
very strikingly exhausted of their fertility
AS the fertilzing properties Of guano
are in too concentrated a condition to be
applied in an undiuted state to seeds or
plants, it must be diluted by being com
pounded with some innocuous orinert sub
stance. Dry leached ashes, or sawdust,
or pulverized peat from bitches, will an
swer the purpose. One part or bulk Of
guano, may be mixed with five or six
parts or bulke of either of these. Of this
compound tablespoonful is sufficient
for hill of corn or other vegetable
Country Gentleman.
Farmers.
Adam was farmer while yet in Per
adise, and after his fall, commanded to
earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
Job, the honest upright and patient,
was farmer and his endurance has pass
ed into proverb
Socrates was a farmer, and yet welded
to his calling the glory of his immortal
philosophy.
st. Luke was a farmer, and devides
with Prometheus the honor Of subiecting
the OK Tor the use OF man.
Cincinnatus was farmer, and the no.
blest Roman of them all
Burns was farmer, and the Muse
found him at the plow, and filled his soul
with poetry.
Washington was a farmer, and retired
from the highest earthly station to enjoy
the quiet of rural life, and present to the
world spectacle of human greatness.
To these may be added host of others
who sought peace and repose in the cultl-
vation of their mother earth; the enthu-
siastic Lafayette the steadfast Pickering,
the scholastic Jefferson, the fiery Randolph,
all found Eldorado of consolation from
life's cares and troubles, in the green and
verdant lawns that surrounded their
homesteads.