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An intelligent gentleman, who has been employed in loading a ship 

 with guano at the Chiucha Islands, on the coast of Peru, has Commu- 

 nicated to us some interesting information with respect to the trade. 

 He has been at the islands at three different times, and nearly six 

 months in all. The last time he was there was in the fall and sum- 

 mer of 1855. He says that he found at times five hundred sail of 

 vessels together, loading with guano, generally large ships; One 

 ship was 1,500 tons burden. Not less than three hundred sail of ves- 

 sels are now at the islands, loading for the United States, Portugal, 

 France, and English and German ports. Some cargoes are sent to 

 Constantinople and some to* Russian ports in the Black Sea. This 

 was before the war in the Crimea. The Russian trade will now open 

 again, both from the Black Sea and the Baltic. Freights are high ; 

 £6 10s. are often paid per tun for Liverpool and Hampton Roadst-^ 

 Generally ten shillings more a tun for freight is paid to Europe.— 

 At the rate at which guano is now shipped from the Chincha Islands, 

 It will be exhausted in six to eight years— not a tun will be left.- 

 Twenty thousand tuns are sometimes removed from iliQ islands in a 

 single day. These islands are about one hundred miles north from 

 Callao. The longest of the group is two miles in length and a quar- 

 ter of a mile wide, but contains only a small quantity of guano. The 

 most northerly island is the smallest, being about a mile in breadth. 

 Guano on this island is two hundred and fifty feet deep. The island 

 contains a Chinese settlement of Coolies, about a thousand in num- 

 ber, who are employed in digging guano and loading the vessels — 

 N. Y. Post. 



Small Farms.— We desire to impress on the common sense rea- 

 soning of every man, the paramount importance of having no more 

 land in cultivation than can be cultivated. By no means attempt to 

 manage more than you can manage well. Be a farmer, not a mere 

 earth scraper, lazily scratching up sufiicient earth to destroy the face 

 of the soil, and throw seed away, or you will always have to scratch 

 hard for a living. But make your farm a source of pride, and it will 

 surely become a source of profit. Make the object to be not to have 



MANY, but RICH SiCYQ^.— Selected. 



