Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-02-18
From the Warrenton News


DEAR S1R-Agreeably to promise, I avail Emyset
of a few spare moments to furnish you, for puble.
ton in the News with receipt for Guano Com.
post, to be applied to land before seeding plant
ing the crop.
If YOU intend the application of Guano to the o..
tober crop, measure the field as nearly as possible
then for every acre weigh out one hundred and fI
ty pounds Guano proceed to seive it, taking care
pound the Jumps until they shall have been dissolved
and seived. When the entire quantity shall have
been reduced in this wise to dust, measure it accu'
rately and for every bushel, add an equal quantity
of leached moistened ashes, one peck of plaster,
0ubec is the best and one peck and half of ground
alum or Liverpool SALT Mix the whole intimately,
with long handled shovel and proceed to SOW
broadcast thus Having laid off the field into lands
of nine or ten feet take your best hands and SOW
the quantity designated for land; taking care to
sow half each way, so as to equalise its dissemna
ton over every part of the field.
If designed for What the same mixture only
recommend two hundred, instead of one hundred
and fifty pounds If for Tobacco, two hundred ana
fifty or three hundred pounds
With this compost, the last season, land very
dry and Improbable one it was0 on entirely e.
hausted ground, q couldn't dignity it with the aP
pellation of Land L raised more than ton OF oae
for every acre.
Without hesitation, I am free to say its applies
ton has paid me extremely well on the Dat crop
its effects on the growth and maturity OF Tobacco
are almost incredible, and the land seeded IN Wheal
last fall with 40 lbs Guano, mixed above, prom,
Uses better yield than a very fertile Tobacco4os
seeded two weeks earlier.
So convinced am of its extraordinary powers as
a fertilizer, Cor producer / should say, of crops
that I intend to enclose my poor, exhausted Os
fields as rapidly as can, with the view OF extene
ing the of It for corn, as well for small gram
and Tobacco, and thereby save my forest land IRON
which must obtain my fuel, timber and ashes:
In dry seasons, Guano often fails, being SO arla
ITSELF that its application to Tobacco in the hm .
to corn In the drill often burns and frequently h
the plant and inasmuch as we cannot know IN AZ ~
vance what kind of season is before us tnlnk s..
would be profitable to those who rely much on ~.
of the article to apply half to upland ana n'
other to moist or bottom land. -.
If wet season the former would produce alnOs'
double crop-if a dry one, the latter Woulu p
duce equally well. Finally if an average seasLn
should happen, the crop would be good on eacn !"
cality. Very respectfully, ,,rpv
Halls Branch, N. G. Jan. Esd, 1854 OIL
p. S. I forgot to say that in seeding oN. nd
would sow the compost frst-then the gram, ~. .bs
pillow deeply, on upland-ifo on bottom pillow harrow
compost deeply, then sow the grain and nall es
thoroughly. If wheat or tobacco, pillow the comps.
in deeply, sow and harrow until fine filth Is p''
duced.
Conpos1rIoN OF rHE HOUSE or DELEcArEs III II
may not be uninteresting to our readers to know
professional character of the House OF Delegates
will be seen from the following table that the hs
Der of gentlemen" and the number OF " ed'o
is equal-two of each. .;,ns
There are SO Farmers 26 Lawyers, 10 Physlcl,,I9s
10 Merchants, 2 Editors, Manufactures, d.s,
chinist, Printer, Milwrightf Miller, and s
tIemep III are married, % single, and II w1doWs'
IS are Methodists, II Baptists Presbyt Ssr
Episcopalians. Disciples, Lutherans, and Wv
Gen Smith, of Kanawha, is the oldest, zoo d s
Nj Sinclair of Prince William, the youngest ~
% are under thirty, 55 between 30 and ~ Sovsr