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this fertilizer upon crops cultivated at the South ; 

 but as it has been used from time immemorial by the 

 Chinese, Japanese, and European farmers, we may 

 take it for granted, a substance which has been 

 heretofore a fruitful source of disease in our cities, 

 will be made a blessing to our country. 



With all his industry and efforts, the farmer will 

 find he can manure but a small portion of his farm 

 annually, and a great many contend that making and 

 collecting manures in this way will not pay. A fatal 

 error ! It will pay to keep one hand and a horse 

 and cart, to do nothing else but haul materials for 

 making manure ; this hand would pay better than 

 any other on the farm. 



As we said before, the farmer who cultivates a 

 large surface, will have to look to other sources for 

 the largest portion of his fertilizers. This renders it 

 necessary that we should take up and discuss some of 

 the most prominent fertilizers now offered for sale in 

 the markets. First upon the list, W T C find 



PERUVIAN GUANO. 



Guano, or huana, which signifies in the Peruvian 

 language, " manure/' is now well known to be the 

 excrements of various kinds of sea-fowl, which 

 resort in vast numbers to small uninhabited islands, 

 and rocky promontories, on the coast of Africa and 

 South America, as Avell as in other parts of the globe. 

 On these islands their excrements have accumulated 

 for ages; in some instances, on the coast of Peru 

 (according to the celebrated traveler Ilumbolt), to 

 the depth of from fifty to eighty feet. 



The Peruvian, or that from the coast of Peru, is 



