114 {Senate 



to get up as high as twelve to fifteen inches^ and then about half a 

 handful (say three ounces,) is applied to each hill by scattering it 

 round the stalks, and mixing it up well with the soil. About the 

 same quantity is again used just before the corn commences forming 

 the ear, and as it never rains in Peru, the hills are irrigated within 

 twenty-four hours after each application of the guano. Land in many 

 parts of Peru would yield little without guanoj but with it the pro- 

 ducts are v(!ry abundant. Mr. Bartlett adds, that the corn grown 

 there is the largest and finest he has ever seen in any country. G. G. 

 Howland, Esq., of this city, applied it to strawberry and melon vines 

 last year, in his garden at his summer residence at Flushing, with the 

 best effect. 



A company has purchased the exclusive right of exportation of 

 guano from the coast of Peru, of the government there, having paid 

 for the same $1,000,000. They have exported large quantities to 

 England, of which 15 to 20,000 tons still remain in Liverpool alone, 

 unsold. Our last accounts quote it at .£9 to £10 per ton. x4.t this 

 price, expenses of transportation, &o., together with the United States 

 duty of 20 per cent., it would come too high here for general use 

 among our farmers. If our government would abolish the duty, 

 and it could be had at a low rate oi the Peruvian company, and be 

 brought directly to our own ports, it might be afforded at such a price 

 as we think would ensure its use in considerable quantities on the 

 Atlantic borders. We hope that some of our enterprising shipping 

 merchants will endeavor to accomplish so desirable an object as the 

 cheap importation of it would prove to the country. 



Guano varies considerably in analysis, for there are three kinds in 

 Peru. The white is considered the most valuable, as being the fresh- 

 est and purest. We have seen at least a dozen tables of analysis of 

 it, but quote those only of Bertels and Volckel: 



Bertels. Volckel. 



Parts. Parta. 



Urate of ammonia, 32 90 



Oxalate of ammonia, , 134 106 



" of Lime, 164 70 



Phosphate of ammonia, 64 60 



'' " and magnesia, .... 42 26 



Sulphate of potash, 42 55 



« of soda, n 38 



Muriate of ammonia, 65 42 



Phosphate of lime, 100 143 



Sand and clay, — 47 



Phosphate of soda, 53 — 



Alumina, 1 — 



Residue (insoluble in acids,) 58 — 



Waxy and resinous matters, 6 — 



Carried forward, 



