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The dry mixtures 



Are of six varieties — 

 No. 1. 75 Jbs. powdered clay, 8 horn shavings, 17 bone dust. 



2. 85 lbs. do. 15 fluid or 5 dried blood. 



3. 85 lbs, do. 5 charred hair, 10 oil cake. 



4. 60 lbs. do. 40 dried duno. 



5. 70 lbs. do. 25 charred leather, 5 bone dust. 



6. 80 lbs. do. 1 fat, tallow or oil, 2 powdered dung, 

 These are to be finely powdered and intimately mixed. The use 



of the clay is to make the other substances cohere together and attach 

 them strongly to the grain. 



Mr. Allen made the following communication on the subject of 

 guano, which was read: 



To the Secretary of the JSew-York Farmers'' Club. 

 Sir, — I herewith transmit to you part of a bag of guano manure, 

 recently received from the coast of Peru. Please to let it be divided 

 anjong the members of the Club as you may think proper. I also 

 with it transmit a paper on the subject of this manure, which if 

 agreeable, I should be pleased to have read before the Club, as it 

 embodies in a small compass nearly all that is essential in its history 

 and use. 



Very respectfully your ob't. servant, 

 A. B. ALLEN. 

 J^ew-York, 19M March, 1844. 



GuAKO Manure. 



Since Mr. Teschemacher's valuable discovery, (an account of v hich 

 appeared page 25 of the January No. of the Am. Agriculturist,) 

 that corn grown by the application of guano contains 50 per cent 

 more of the phosphates in it than that raised on the same land with- 

 out guano, and that its product may be doubled on a poor soil bv the 

 use of a few dollars' worth of this powerful fertilizer per acre, con- 

 siderable attention has been excited in regard to it by the farmers of 

 this vicinity, and we have been called upon for further information 

 as to its history and use. This has been obligingly furnished us by 

 Mr. Bartlett, of this city, who resided some time in Peru, where the 

 article abounds in the largest quantity, and in its purest state. 



Guano is formed in strata from 1 foot to 60 feet deep, on most of 

 the headlands and islands all along the Peruvian coast, from five 

 degrees to twenty-five degrees south latitude, a distance of about 

 1,200 miles, and exists in such unbounded quantities, that it will require 

 ages to transport it away. It is without doubt the pure excrements 

 ot sea-fowl, which harbor in this region in such immense flocks as 

 to literally darken the air in their flight. It has a strong pungent 

 smell, making it frequently excessively disagreeable to approach 

 within two or three miles of its deposits. The Spaniards of South 

 America have used it as manure for more than 300 years, particularly 

 in their crops of maizej and the Peruvian Indians had done the same 

 before them from time immemorial. The corn in Peru is first allowed 



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