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grass seerl then was sown, at the rate of five pecks Redtop and ten 

 quarts Ilerdsgrass per acre. This was followed hj the Brush har- 

 row, and the whole piece was left perfectly clean and level. The 

 soil varied, In different parts of the field, from a light, gravelly, to a 

 deep, moist loam. The seed germinated quickly and covered the 

 surface, before winter, with a good body of grass. This was not 

 much injured by the severity of winter's frost, except in a few low 

 spots. With the return of spring the grass grew rapidly, vigorously 

 and evenly. The first return of hay was quite two tons to the acre ; 

 — the year following the yield was larger ; and for four succeeding 

 years, it has been, at no time, less than one and a half tons to the 

 acre, with no other manure, during the time, than two light dressings 

 of Compost. 



This field was distant from the farmer's barn nearly a quarter of 

 a mile, and he believes it would have cost more time, labor and 

 money, to have drawn and appUed manure from his barn, sufficient 

 for the first outlay, than did the whole quantity of Guano and the 

 subsequent dressings of Compost require. 



To confirm this statement, he adds, that a second trial was made, 

 next year, on an adjoining piece of mainly similar land and with 

 equally beneficial results. Here the effect of the Guano is yet seen, 

 after four years' cropping, in the earlier greenness and growth of the 

 grass, both before and after mowing, compared with that on an 

 adjoining piece of precisely similar soil, which Avas laid down one 

 year later, and had received the benefit of two years' tillage and two 

 heavy dressings of barn manure. 



The piece first mentioned has since been laid down anew, at the 

 same season of the year, with a fair dressing of barn manure, and in 

 the spring following with a good dressing of plaster and ashes, 

 (Guano not being found at the time in the market ;) but without any 

 thing like similar results. 



Greatly beneficial results have been observed, by the same farmer, 

 from the use of Guano, upon wheat and other small grains, upon 

 corn fodder, beans, peas, cabbages, squash, and other vines, young 

 fruit trees, currant, and other bushes. Indeed there is no article 

 of horticulture or field culture to which the judicious application of 

 this manure would not, he believes, be of great service. 



The experience and observation of this farmer lead him, therefore, 

 to venture the opinion that our farms would be, in all respects, bene- 



