The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-19
CHlRLES Il. PE1BODY:ON CONNER
GILL N -iNURES.
His Method of Application and Results.
From the Southern cultivator.l

Editors Soultpra Cuitaoa.or: As am con-
stantly receiving letters from all parts of the
cotton growing States, asking my Vlcws OF
guano-what kinds l prefer-how use it, and
the medium of my answers to all. Some twen-
ty-iive years ago began to experiment with
guauo. First, tried Peruvian. This gave
good satisfaction, but was, [ then thought,
rather expensive. I have since tried all the
other varieties of note. Some were good
others worthless. I had como . the conciu-
sou that the Peruvian, however stly, was
the chcapestin the cud, as q hard working.
industrious man could manipulate 1t with any
other substance hc thought proper. l have
found salt, plaster, flower of bones, swamp
MUCK, &C., valuable to manipulate with Pcru-
Wan guauo. but the labor OF manipulation
is great, and in the process of manipulation
much OF tue ammonia escapes. from
this fact I have been led to inquire whether
yian guano, and whether it would not be more
advantageous to pay for the phosphatos than
to pay so much extra for the volatile ammonia.
Whilst full Of this idea 1 struck the Soluble
Pacific Guaro and was Dwell pleased with 1t
that last year manured one.half OF my cotton
with it, and the other BALI with the genuine
Peruvian. The same quantity OF each was
used per acre. The land was of the same
quality, tho planting and culture was in all re-
spects tho same, and when the crop was gath
cred it was impossible to tell Which was tho
best. Now tho Soluble Pacific Guano cost me
$40 less per ton, and rs consequence L nave
this year used the Soluble Pacific Guiana alone.
1t cost me, st the agents depot IN Columbus,
SIS per ton.
It may be we'll here to state the character Of
nv land. do not live on exactly what would
be called pine BARI ems, but it is next to 1t. The
older portion OF my land will not, with ordina.
~ culture, bring three hundred pounds OF seed
cotton to the acre. A field of ten acres, which
I wished to experiment on with the Dickson
cotton, hybridizing it with my upland long
staple, I ploughed and subsoiled IN Marc1,
leaving the surface perfectly level; the goth OF
April, laid 1t off IN lands about Twenty-Five
feet wide, and sowed Soluble Pacific Guano
broadcast, at the rate of two hundred pounds
to the acre. This I turned under with turn
shovel plough, then opened furrows three feet
apart with long point scooter, follow
plough; in this furrow I put two hun
dred pounds more Of tho guaao to the
acre. Then / threw the burrows together
into tue centre with q turn-shovel, winch
left but slight ridge. and on this ridge plant
ed the seed. Tho Dickson variety bears much
thicker planting than other kinds. The growth
and fruitlDg of tho crop was SuperD-nothing
equal 10 it had ever been seen in this section
OF tie country, and if the worms had not
made two good bales to tho acre. AS bad as
it has turned out, it has male btle 10 the
acre. 10 halt acre near my DWELLING, that L
had cowpcnned last winter, applied two hun
dred pounds of tho Soluble Pacific Guano IN
tho drill, and, Notwithstanding excessive wet
weather in August, and tho worms, which took
all the late crop, have picked over two thous-
and pounds of seed cotton from the half acre.
There are those in my neighborhood who plant
land as good as mine, but without guano, that
will scarcely realize bale from ten acres this
year. re
And now word to the purchaser. IT you
would get tho Soluble Pacific Guano genuine,
purchase it only OF the authorized agents OF
the company. 1 have tried the Peruvian and
Pacific on my garden crops, but with no good
results. Peruvian Guano seems to be emphat-
ically the food for cotton fruit-other Ferliliz-
ers may make more weed; but in the purchase
of Peruvian Guano, we are paving for vola-
tile ammonia, much of which is bound to es-
cape without benefit to crops. Will it not be
to the planters interest to take that euano
which is richer in phosphates, and yet an
abundance OF ammonia for all practical pur-
poscs? The Soluble Pacific Guano I have
found from sound practical tests to be equal to
the Peruvian and much cheaper. hold that
no man can afford to plant cotton without
gnano. CdAS. a. fEADOD1,
Lee County, Ala, noar Columbus, Ca, Nov.
IA, 1868.