Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-09-26
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From the Journal of the N. Y. State Ayr. Soc.
GIIANO. -

A gentleman of Wilmington, Delaware,
has given us the following account of the
use Of guano, under his own directionj as
well as the experience of others in the
State of Delaware, which will be valuable
tothose who are DESTROYS of experimenting
with this fertilizer. No experiments can
be satisfactory but those made with the
.gens1iue Guano. The gentlemen In Dela- |
ware are particular in securing the true
article. and reliance therefore Is to be |
placed upon their statements.
at have postponed answering your
queries with regard to guano, in order to
submit them to some of the best farmers
of this neighborhood, whom I was to meet
yesterday. The general result of their
answers, is, that the effect Of guano is in
inverse ratio to the richness of the SOIL.
On the rich farms of Chester County,
Pennsylvania, guano has not been much
tried. as they have no need of it, and
when tried, gave unsatisfactory results
On the contrary, on the naturally fertile
land, but exhausted by injudicious cult
Walton, of our lower counties, it has pro-
duced very good and durable effects
Mr.. Bryan jackson, an intelligent agri~
culturist and practical farmer, informs me
that an application of 800 pounds of guano
per acre produced on his place crop of
wheat equal to the one grown OH the
same land with seventeen cart loads of
barn yard manure. He had the ground
ploughed deep previously to spreading the
guano, and had it covered by another
shallow ploughing. He states that he OBJ
tanned no results of guano for oats or bar
ley. However, one Of my neighbors gets
good crops of oats On poor land in which
ho ploughs guano. I was also informed
that a crop of corn Of 70 bushels to the
acre had been obtained on poor land from
a mixture of guano and plaster, at the
rate of handful in each hill, put in be-
fore dropping the seed. This is only an
hearsay. My own experience with this
manure dates from ten or eleven years
ago, when tried it for wheat with very
good results, and l obtained the best
wheat where the most guano had been
laid on. The next year, having q new
grass field that had given a very short
crop at the first cutting, I applied on
twelve acres of it Il top-dressing Of one
ton of Ichahoe guano, mixed with an
equal bulk Of plaster. The result was,
for the following year. q crop of upwards
OF two tons of hay to the acre on the
twelve acres which had been top-dressed, I
while it was quite light on the part that
had received nothing. Having top dress
ed the remainder of the field in the same
way, it became quite equal to the first
part. l have had that field moved or
Pastured six years before it was necessary
10 plough it again. Since then l am so
satisfied with this fertilizers effiacy that
l do not experiment upon it. l use it in
conjunction with stable manure, plough |
ing it down, except for ruta-baga and |
other urnips, for which 1 cover it with
slight narrowing, and also for top -dress~
ing wheat stubble, at the rate of 800
pounds per acre mixed with an equal bulk |
Of plaster. For this operation [ wait
rainy weather, in order to have the guano |
Immediately washed in the ground 1t is,
however, desirable to have it performed |
early, in order to let the clover and other
grass get strong enough to withstand the |
pernicious influence OF winter.
On the whole l think guauo is most
invaluable on exhausted soils to produce |
straw, folders, DC, or to enable the farm
er 10 increase his manure, but that when
applied exclusively to the production of
grain, without combining with it stable |
manure or green crops, as believe is |
done in some parts of the country, it will |
ultimately LEAVE the lands IN u a0orSe state
of exhaustion than eUor.