Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-01-24

quantities mixed in my garden the past season. ]
have never had so good garden before, and am
compelled to attribute it to the manure used Such
manures as answer good purpose for garden
crops where plants maturing at all seasons of
the year. never fail in favorable seasons to produce
| good field crops. Many of our planters used the
! two manures combined, some using 100 pounds of
| each. others $50 pounds of guano, and 70 pounds
of bone per acre, thoroughly mixed and sown in
the drill or furrow. This mode is gaining favor,
especially with such Of our farmers or planters
who are firmly of the opinion that 200 lbs. of the
guano is more than ought to be used in the drill
unless mixed with some other less active material.
This may be a new and singular idea and perhaps
an erroneous one, but there was certainly much
force in the argument of one of our best farmers
who takes that ground and acts upon it.
1t had for many years before the late been
custom of our planters to mix all of tn cir concen-
trated manures such as guanO, cotton seed, stable
| manure, &c, with swamp mud, woods mould, ditch
banks &c, in such quantities to afford abou: 500
bushels of the compost to the acre for cotton This
work usually put through between the 18th
December and the 1st of March, at the cost of much
hard work to hand and team. 1t was persisted in
however, as it considered the most speedy man
of improving the land, and the surest system of
producing large crops while the improvement was
going on, but now that the labor of the negro
not be controlled it then, and has an uncon-
querable aversion to this kind of work, and have
pretty much their own way in all things appertainng
to held work, it is to be presumed that this method
of manuring will have to be reinquished. and some
other adopted that it is to be hoped will answer
good or better purpose If it should give rise 10
deeper and better ploughing, more thorough drain
age, and other Improvements Of which there is
much need, the time may come and that speedily,
when it may be considered fortunate occurrence
that the whole system was broken up.
1t is important In using guano to instruct the
laborers to apply 1t as equally possible in the
burrows. To attain this end the proper quantity for
furrow, fifty or hundred yards in length should
be weighed to each hand and let him try it, and see
how near he can come to making it hold out Let
this be repeated until he gets accustomed to spread
ing it evenly along the furrow, which if he has any
tact, will be much sooner than would suppose
at the first trial. No one need expect the full 6ene-
fit from the guano, unless this matter is attended
to and accomplished.
| l have heard of two persons who used guano for
the corn crop. Both of these speak highly Of its
effect. much larger quantity in my opinion should
be applied to corn than cotton and it should be used
broadcast.
To give you better idea ofthe effect the Guano
by itself and the guano and bone -four mixed,
will give you the statements of several of best
farmers who authorized me to do you desired it.
will mention here that of the large number of per.
sons who bought these fertilizers last spring, have
heard but t,co speak of them in a way that could be
possibly construed unfavorable. One of these
used tons each of Pacific Guano, Flour of Bone
and Peruvian Guano, and If he can save it will az
he states make 1870 bales weighing 400 lbs. each
100 acres OF land. The other used tons Pacific
and tons Peruvian Guano, and will make $50
bales The latter has not said that he will
more Pacific, but he is very emphatic in declaring
he will never use any more Peruvian Guano. These
gentlemen certainly have cause to complain. The
former especially What only one bale Of cotton
per acre!
Mr.. Jesse Mercer, practical farmer, and man
of sterling integrity made an experiment last
season with the following manures: Peruvian
Guano, Patapsco Guano Pacific Gudno, Baugh's
Raw Bone Phosphate, and Goes Superphosphate
of Lime. The PacifcGuano used in this expert
ment cost SIC per ton laid down here, the quantity
used In the experiment 35 lbs which made
80 lbs. more cotton than the unmanured land of
| the same size laying alongside of the MANFRED.
Or in other words, the land without manure made
! 20 lbs. The guanoed land l40 lbs.
| The Peruvian Guano cost $3.50 per ton. 80 lbs.
| were used on land adjacent of the same size and
resulted in product of 1l9 lbs, the unmanured
land along side produced 70 lbs. The Peruvian
cost 80 per cent. more than the Pacific Guano,
while the Pacific in the above experiment shows
in the yield Of cotton gain of 1891 per cent and
the Peruvian about " per cent AS regards the
other fertilizers used in the experiment, prefer
to say nothing, the agents for their sale at this
point can do SO if they think proper
MIR. Z. b. klllibrew opened his cotton burrows
and applied in the drill the usual compost manure
in the drill and then sowed Pacific Guano at the
rate of 100 lbs. per acre, leaving six eight fur
rows without guano. The guanOed land produced
an excess of 200 lbs over the land with compost
only.
Mr.. William F. Knight applied 200 lbs. of Pa
CHIC Guano and averaged 500 lbs. more cotton
than the unmanured land produced He made
lOoO lbs. OF cotton In the seed per acre and had
$50 acres in cultivation.
Doct. VIM. G. Noble used 200 lbs Of Pacific
Guano per acre and averaged about 400 lbs. OF
seed cotton in excess of the unmanured land
Mr.. Bount Bryan used three tons of GuAno.
He left one row unmanured in order to see what
effect the manure would have lie picked less
than half from that row, than the adjoining one
MANFRED.