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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Mat 



tober, perfectly ripe and dry. Good judges admit 

 that the guano increased the crop at least twenty 

 bushels per acre, and was ten or twelve days earlier 

 for the guano ; so that 1350 pounds guano gave an 

 increase of 180 bushels corn. Upon one acre of 

 the same field, sowed 300 pounds guano without 

 any manure, harrowed and bushed it in, planted it 

 same time and cultivated with the other — on har- 

 vesting, it Mas better every way than where it Avas 

 manured and 150 pounds guano; showing plainly, 

 that 300 pounds Peruvian guano Avill make more 

 corn than 15 good loads good manure. 



Also sowed one ton guano upon seven acres of 

 poor pine plain land worn out. After plowing, as 

 I prefer harrowing and bushing it in as it mixes it 

 more suant in the earth, Avhich is very important, 

 and prevents the guano from injuring the crop, as I 

 have never had any injured, always plowing seven 

 or eight inches deep, planted the eight-rowed corn 

 on the second day of May ; all came up, though it 

 was exposed to the crows ; they did not pull it up, 

 as it was planted from three to four inches deep, 

 and patted with the hoe — when planted shallow 

 the crows almost always pull it badly in this vicin- 

 ity. Cut it up the second week in September, and 

 husked in October. It produced 



205 bushels shelled corn, ripe and drj^, at $1 per bush. .$205, 00 

 The stalks sold for 26, CO 



Making $231,00 



Cost of growing crop : 



n«wrfng $14,00 



Haa-Tdwinf: and bushing 4,00 



Sowing guano 2,00 



Planting corn 3,50 



Oultivatiiig three times once in a row 8,00 



Very 'little hoeing three times 6,00 



Cutting u;p and stacking corn 7,00 



Husking asid carting corn 10,50 



Interest and taxes on land 4,20 



Guano 53,0C 



Thi-as5iLD,g corn. 4,00-$116,20 



Profit $114,80 



The last week of last June, sowed one ton of Pe- 

 ruvian guano upon fifteen acres of poor sandy white 

 birch land, worth not more than $6 per acre, and 

 plowed but once about the first of June ; sowed the 

 buckwheat and guano as above, and harrowed and 

 bushed them m together, cradled and set up the 

 last week in September, carted into the barn before 

 the fall rains in fine order ; thrashed in the winter, 

 as the straw was needed for bedding for stock; it 

 is worth as much as any straw for bedding, and when 

 cut before the irosts, cattle will eat it readily. It 

 produced 



203 bushels, of 52 pounds each, at 75 cts. per bush $152,25 



10 tons straw, at $6 per ton 60,00 



Making $212,25 



Cost of growing crop : 



Flowing $15,00 



10 bushels seed 7,50 



Sowing, harrowing and bushing 7,00 



Sowing guano 2, CO 



Cradling and setting up 9,00 



Carting into barn 12,00 



Thrashing , 10,00 



Interest and taxes 6,75 



Guano 53,0a-$122,25 



Profit $90,00 



The Peruvian guano does equally well with the 

 potato crop ; 300 pounds has given me more bush- 

 els of potatoes than 20 loads manure. Oats and 

 spring wheat have proved equally successful. The 



common turnip, 300 pounds on very poor land, 

 gives a better crop than forty cart-loads of manure 

 per acre. 



Seeding with grass seed in August or September 

 for mowing or pasturing, 300 pounds has made 

 fine crops of hay. Turnips may be raised with the 

 same, sowed with the gaass seed. My experience 

 from the experiments made proves that one ton of 

 the genuine Peruvian guano will make more corn 

 than one hundred loads of good manure, worth with 

 us one dollar per load ; and 300 pounds has always 

 made more corn for me, than twenty loads of my 

 best manure. David Mosely. 



JFesffield, March, 1856. 



WAR WITH ENGLAND? 



To the Selectmen nf the tuwn of Concord : 



Gentlemen : — I have received — and herewith 

 send you — from our brethren in the town of 

 Coggeshall, in the county of Essex, England, an 

 address to the inhabitants of this town, invoking 

 their infiucnce for the perpetuation of peace be- 

 tween this country and England. 



It asserts strong fraternal feeling towards us and 

 the American people at large. 



It is enrolhd on parchment. I hope it will be 

 read to the persons assembled in Town-meeting to- 

 day, and such action taken on it as may be deemed 

 proper, and then placed among the records of a 

 people who were the first to resist aggression, but 

 who sympathize with the sentiments of the address, 

 and who believe that war, however fiercely wag-ed, 

 can never settle difficulties between nations. 



Very truly yours, SiMON Brown. 



To George M. BROOKS, ^ Selectmen of the 



Concord, April 1, 1856. 



ADDRESS. 



To our Brethren and Sisters, the Inhabitants of Concord, Mas- 

 sachusetts, U. S. The Address of the undersigned. Inhabi- 

 tants of the Town of Coggeshall, Essex County, England .- 



It is impossible but that we regard with deep 

 and unafi'ected anxiety any approach to a misun- 

 derstanding between the governments of the Unit- 

 ed States and of Great Britain ; and the rumors of 

 hostilities between the two nations have given us 

 intense sorrow ; we deeply regret that the influ- 

 ence of the Press in both countries should have 

 tended to fan the spark into a flame ; but we are 

 devoutly thankful that the "God of Peace" has, by 

 the more recent development of His providence, 

 led us to believe that the gloomy forebodings which 

 some of us entertained, will not now be realized, 

 but that the amicable relations that have been so 

 long maintained may continue undisturbed. Still 

 we deem this a fitting opportunity to assert our fra- 

 ternal feelings towards you, and our American 

 brethren at large. 



Friends and brethren, we hold the evils atten- 

 dant upon war to be so tremendous, so unspeaka- 

 bly horrible and heart-rending — and beUeving that 

 "God has made of one blood all nations of men," 

 and that consequently all men are brethren, we 

 woukl seek by all possible means to maintain j)eace. 

 But there are strong special reasons why we should 

 cultivate peace with the people of your land : Your 

 ancestry is so truly noble, of which not merely 

 England, but all Europe "was not worthy;" we 



