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get the earth, and above all dont forget the duty you owe 

 your mother. As I cannot be with her, as your oldest 

 brother is away & your oldest sister now married, you 

 have a double duty to perform. You must exert all the 

 good qualities of your nature to make yourself a comfort 

 & a blessing to her in her declining years. Above all 

 other things Leila I hope you & Charles, now you have 

 such a good opportunity will obtain an education. If my 

 life & health is continued so I can earn money, I will 

 spend it freely for that purpose. As soon as it is worth 

 while I should like to put you both in as good schools as 

 can be found in the country. So be industrious in your 

 studies where you are, let it be a constant study with 

 you to be good children, so that you will be loved by all 

 who know you & in after life as much respected as your 

 father. 



As I have letters to write to Josephine & Sarah, be- 

 sides a host of writing for the printer to do while the 

 good people of Charleston are in church, I must be brief. 

 I am truly your affectionate father. 



Solon Robinson. 



How to Use Guano. 



[Augusta Southern Cultivator, 9:70-71; May, 1851] 



[April 14, 1851] 



There is an article (page 35) of your present volume 

 under this title that contains much useful information, 

 but some error, or rather statement, that will be likely 

 to lead experimenters with this fertilizer into error. As 

 I have been upon the land of Mr. Newton mentioned, as 

 well as some hundred others in Virginia and other places 

 where guano is used very extensively, and conversed day 

 after day upon the subject, perhaps I can give your read- 

 ers some useful information. I would premise that I 

 was acting as Agent of A. B. Allen & Co.'s New York 

 Agricultural Warehouse, for the sale of Peruvian Guano, 

 and consequently interested in getting all possible infor- 



