THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS. 19 



tion you see you have lost five days work, worth, at least, 

 five dollars, and it is now so late that your corn will not 

 be nearly as good as it would have been planted earlier. 

 You will lose at least five dollars on every acre of corn 

 you plant, for want of this information about the proper 

 method of using guano. Five dollars in loss of labor and 

 fifteen in loss of time make twenty dollars, which would 

 furnish you with at least a dozen of the best agricultural 

 journals in the country, and pay the postage on them.&quot; 



&quot; I should not wonder if that was so.&quot; 



We left our unfortunate friend, scratching his head, now 

 radiant with a new idea. What the result will be, of 

 course, we cannot tell. But we expect better things in the 

 future. Hundreds of cases like this are to be found all 

 over the country. Men hear of guano, and take it for 

 granted it is of no consequence how they use it ; they put it 

 in by the handful and plant the seed directly upon it. 

 Farmers should read and think more. It is very expensive 

 to cultivate the soil without knowledge. Take the pa 

 pers. ED. 



No. 6. TIM BUNKER ON MOSS BUNKERS. 



Hookertown has been thrown into quite a ferment late 

 ly, by the arrival of numerous loads of fish from the 

 shore for the purpose of manure. The muck heaps are in 

 a ferment with the fish, and the people with the talk about 

 them. As in all new enterprizes, there is a great differ 

 ence of opinion, and almost every man is as decided in 

 his views as if he had used moss bunkers from his boy 

 hood. Some declare that the fish cannot be used without 

 making an odor, more distinguished than all the spice 



