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ent analyses, some nine years ago ,' but we have never been able to learn 

 that any thing was added to it other than sulphate of ammonia. This, 

 which is the same form of ammonia found in Peruvian guano, is used to 

 bring up the percentage to the standard when the guano is deficient. "We 

 can supply the crude guano in sealed bags, as imported, and furnish a copy 

 of analysis, which is not guaranteed ; nor is any allowance made for stones. 

 Price, same as Standard, $63 for 2,240 pounds; and analyses said to be the 



same. 



Yours respectfully, 



SETH CHAPMAN'S SON & CO. 



From this we learn that it is still possible to obtain 

 guano in the original, unbroken packages, directly from 

 the guano islands, though it will be more or less lumpy, 

 and there may be some stones among it. Messrs. Chap- 

 man & Co. quote, Feb. 6, 1885, guano in original bags per 

 ton of 2,240 pounds, $63; Standard, $63; Lobos, $48. 

 This price is at their store, for which cartage to the cars 

 is $1.25 per ton. After paying freight, I have found 

 the price to be several dollars per ton cheaper than the 

 same quality of guano is sold at nearer home. Farmers, 

 in buying, should remember the difference in quality be- 

 tween Lobos and the Standard, and should see that the 

 price corresponds. I am told of an instance in Central 

 Massachusetts, where last season a party mixed a little 

 guano with salt-cake, as the residue of the manufacture 

 of sulphuric acid is called, and sold five hundred tons of 

 the stuff as a fertilizer. He was prosecuted, but, being a 

 lawyer himself, found some loophole in the law, through 

 which he crawled. 



It is proper to state just here, that the fertilizers in the 

 market into whose name the word " guano " enters, how- 

 ever good they may be, have not now, as far as I can 

 learn, a particle of Peruvian guano in their composition. 

 I must also add, that dealers in fertilizers assert that the 

 amount of real Peruvian guano imported is but trivial 

 compared with the quantity sold under that name, and 



