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on it, and when you get ready to plant, open the ridge with a 

 scooter and drop the corn, and cover as you desire. Thirty 

 to forty bushels will be the produce, per acre, on land that, 

 without the guano, might produce ten to fifteen bushels. For 

 cotton, I have found it best to apply it in this way : first run 

 o'ff the rows, and then ridge with two scooter-furrows, by run- 

 ning round the row ; upon this ridge scatter 300 to 400 Ibs. 

 of the compound, guano and gypsum, and then bed out the 

 rows with turn-ploughs ; then, when ready, plant your seed. 

 Much of the success of using guano depends upon applying it 

 early in the season, that it may become incorporated with the 

 soil previous to the growing season. It may be applied, 

 equally successful, without the gypsum the gypsum, how- 

 ever, being cheap, can be used to advantage with it, as its ap- 

 plication is, perhaps, always valuable. 



DR. CLOUD. 



