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it useless to waste money by using guano on that portion 

 on which the street was to be, but on each side sowed 

 guano at the rate of 1200 pounds per acre, and planted 

 the whole with Early Cabbages. The effect was the most 

 marked I ever saw ; that portion on which the guano had 

 been used sold off readily at $12 per hundred, or about 

 $1400 per acre, both price and crop being more than an 

 average ; but the portion from which the guano had been 

 withheld, hardly averaged $3 per 100. The street occu- 

 pied fully an acre of ground, so that my friend actually lost 

 over $1000 in crop, by withholding $60 for manure. An- 

 other neighbor, whose lease had only one year to run, and 

 who also unwisely concluded that it would be foolish to 

 waste manure on his last crop, planted and sowed all with- 

 out it ; the result was, as his experience should have taught 

 him, a crop of inferior quality in every article grown, and 

 loss on his eight acres of probably $2000 for that season. 



