Smyrna times., 1859-02-10
Annual Nesting Of the Agricultural So.
ciety CT Kent County, Delaware


DOVER, Febuasy lst, 1859.
The Society met and organized IN the Cour
House. The President, Henry Cowgirl, in III,
! chair.
The proceedings of the last meeting wer,
read aud approved
! DIR. }. ID. Bird, Chairman of the Committee
on lot, reported progress and read the form Of
the lease to be made between john w. Smith
aud Tie President Of the Society.
M. Hayes. E,q, Corresponding Secretary,
presented, aud on motion read lhc following
communication from r. B. Cuursey, Esq:
10 Nontore Hayes, Esq, COrrespoading SEC.
retary ef The Ag rieutturat Society Of Hen,
county,:
DEAR SIR: When | submitted my report Of
experiments to the last annual meeting of the
AgrIcniturhI Society, had determined to dis
continue Them altogeIher; but some of the mem
Gers expressed desire that would conIinup
them through another year. And turthermorp
| subsequently received letters from severa
gentlemen who are interested IN the monufac
lure aud sale ot Fertilizers, qUeslIng me to en-
ter their articles 10 competition with Peruvian
Guano. therefore yielded to their request
and prepared to carry out the object, and test
the articles III the most systematic manner tba,
my time and opportunities would permit. To
do this, made special visit to The CITY of Viii
mlhgtOn, so as To select personally articles Of
Standard quality only. such as was sold in the
market, and not manufactured for the esppcjaI
purpose OF making reputation. selected
from TIC stock ct Messrs. Aiken g. Culbert an
amount suiiic'ent Tor my purpose, OF Rhodes
,Fn tIt.in 4. e,
dau's ditto, NJ films Blood Manure. and Navos.
"a Guano; and from WIN. b. lIorsev. of Sea.
ford, Manipulated Guano. The Peruvian On.
aho used III the experiments was directly from
the warehouse Of Mr.. Christian, and The Pacific
Guano was directly from the warehouse nj
Messrs. Allen d. Needles. The sacks selected
were taken at random from q large lot of eoch.
and were prime articles.
ln preparing for the experiments measured
OH win iape-lIne ten separate acres, leavin ~
d space OF SIX feet between each and assloned
an altIcle to each acre. and sa W each article nm.
piled to the acre assigned it, This was ON ex.
hausted land, that has not been cultivated for =,
number of years
also laId OFT IN like manner eipht balEncr.s
on improved land leaving a space IN each Moi
10 "h'ch row OF potatoes were planted. On
Ihese PLOTS used the same articles used on the
e"n'us'eu lahd' from the same barrels aud
sacks. 1''
have been thus explicit to shoN tbe Societv
The care and trouble have taken To test The |
articles IN the most systematic manner, so asto
De satisfactory TO myself, and Of practical utility
o agrIcuIturists generally. 10 this | would
ave succeeded had the summer been an ordi.
'aty one but the extremely dry summer has
'ntlfeIy frustrated my design, and my labor and
= "posere proved nothing satisfactory. / will,
nsni,s ue as otleI as possible in detailing the
esu''S' commencing with the improved land.
49, .;.L Baskets
the plot yielded IJI
acre, without manure, on the oDpn. "a
site side, IL a
acre Rhodes Superphospate, combined
with Peruvian Guano, cost S4 o44