198 BONES. 



a contract with the Peruvian government which 

 gives them the exclusive sale of this guano.* 



Whoever may desire to obtain more precise infor- 

 mation upon this important manure and the results 

 it has produced in Saxony, will find it given in the 

 little work entitled Guanobilchlein, which contains 

 instructions for the use of German farmers upon the 

 constituents, action, tests, and employment of bird- 

 manure, written by A. Stockhardt, Leipzig, and pub- 

 lished by George Wigand, 1851. 



IX. BONES. 



Complaints are often heard, that, by the consump- 

 tion of English cotton fabrics in Germany, thousands 

 of English laborers are supported by German money. 

 Germany has done far more ; for nearly half a cen- 

 tury it has given grain to English laborers by the 

 exportation of German manure, German bones, and 

 German oil-cake. According to trustworthy infor- 

 mation, the produce of English fields since the im- 

 portation of bones and oil-cake has been doubled. 

 The revivifying power which has been lost to our 



* The agent of the Peruvian government in New York is E. Riley, 

 and in Boston, C. L. Bartlett. There are, however, respectable seed- 

 stores in the chief cities of the United Stales, where guano may be 

 purchased without risk of its being adulterated. — J. E. T. 



