The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-09
USING PERUVIAN GUANo.

USING PERUyAIN GUANo.
Farmers Find it Valuable and Economical
It is Bought from an Island Oft the
Coast Of PERI.
With forty-two hundred tons
Peruvian guano aboard, the Brit
ish steamship Condor: Captain
Anderson, arrived in port re.
Gently and is now dischacging
her cargo at the South Carolina
Terminal wharf at the foot of
Columbus street. AS fast as the
fertilizer is taken from the hold
it is packed in labelled sasks and
made ready for shipment to the
interior and to the agriculturists
along the coast. The cargo is
consigned to order, though it
belongs to C. Mortimer & Co.
This shipment is the first Of a
series which will be received dur
ing the winter, a vessel bearing
seventy-fve hundred tons being
due here next month. Other
shipments will be made to G.
Mortimer & Co., as is deemed
necessary to supply the demand,
which has been steadily growing
as the farmers become better ac-
quainted with its virtues as a
fertilizer. That public attention
is being rapidly awakened to the
fact that genuine Peruvian guano
can be bought in this city is
made evident by the fact that
farmers in the interior are ask
ingfor information regarding the
fertilizer and yesterday a party
of representative farmers from
Orangeburg county were in the
city to personally examine the
cargo and satisfy themselves as
to it's efficacy. The party con-
sisted Of Messrs. G.. L. Salley,
Clerk of Court: T. W. Zeigler, n.
N. Hayden, T. R. McCants, j.
G.. Smith, G. A. Stroman, A. D.
Fair, F. /. Gates, and L. G. Way.
A party from Chesterfield Coun-
ty and a party from Marion
County have signifed their in
tention of coming to the city at
an early date to look at the guano.
The gentlemen from Orangeburg
yesterday said that they were
satisfied that it was the genuine
article.
Several days will be necessary
to unload the cargo of the Con
dor as the men below are unable
to labor for any great length Of
time on account Of the penetrat-
ing odor Of ammonia. In spite
of the fact that wind sails are
provided, the men were unable
to stay in the hold yesterday and
only one hatchway was utilized.
The hot humid weather renders
the odor Of ammonia peculiarly
suffocating.
The Condor came direct from
Lobos de TERRA, and island
about so miles off the coast OF
Peru. These guano deposits are
found on the rocky islands and
in gullies and ravines along the
coast. They must have been for
a very long time the solitudes of
a vast number Of sea birds, such
as penguins, pelicans, gannets,
albatross, shags, petrels, and
gulls, as well as of seals and sea
lions. These islands, from which
the guano is taken, are their llv-
ing and breeding places as we'll
as their cemeteries: where the
birds lived and died, csnd the ac-
emulation consists, not only OF
the slowly putrefying excrements
of innumerable sea fowl, but OF
their carcasses as well. Many
of these mummifed carcases
have been found in the cargo OF
the Condor and dozens of petri:
fed eggs have been unearthed
by the picks Of the laborers in
the hold. That the guano con.
sists, in a measure, of these de,
composed carcasses would ap'
pear from the average compost.
ton Of good guano as compared
with the composition of more re
cent accumulation of pure ex.
creta.
At first thought one might i'm.
agine that heavy rains would
wash the accumulation into the
sea but when it is remembered
that rain never falls on certain
sections of the coast Of Peru il
is readily seen that the excreta
remains undisturbed by nature.
In speaking Of this phase of the
subject, a famous professor has
observed: 1T is the dryness Of
the climate which has permitted
the guano to accumulate or
! these coasts. When we reach
region which from local causes.
the dews are heavier, and the
rains more frequent, the accumu
lation ceases; cold water dis.
solves at least three-ffths of the
guano in the state in which il
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