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weeks after the publishing hereof, shall have one legg tyed up, and 
if such a dog shall break loose and be found doing any harm the | 
owner of the dogg shall pay damage. If a man refuse to tye up 
his dogg’s legg, and hee bee found scraping up fish in a corne- 
field, the owner thereof shall pay twelve pence damage beside 
what ever damage the dogg doth. But if any fish their house 
lotts and receive damage by doggs, the owners of these house 
lotts shall bear the damage themselves.’ 
From this time until the latter part of the last century, I can 
find no reference to the use of fish fertilizers, but there is no 
reason to doubt that the customs of old have been handed down 
by the local agriculturists from generation to generation. 
I have been much astonished to find that the use of fertilizers 
by the uncivilized races of man has not been more frequently 
observed. Dr. Rau, with his extensive acquaintance of eth- 
nological literature, tells me that he has met with but one allu- 
sion of the kind, that being in the writings of Garcilasso de Vega, 
who states that the Peruvians used bird guano for the purpose of 
manuring their plantations.! 
Bancroft refers to one instance of the use of fertilizers by the 
1“ They used to dung their Lands, that they might make them fruitfull, and in is 
observable, that in all the Valley mon Cozco, and in the hilly Countries, where hey 
sowed Mayz, they esteemed the best manure to be Man’s Denes gh to that pe 
they saved an d gathered it i great care, and drying it, they cast it tipo their 
Land before shes» sowed their Mayz. But in the Gountry of Collao, which is above 
one hundred and fitty Leagues long, which, by reason of the bapa of the Cli- 
mate, doth not oiire Mayz, though it bear other sort eR rane, there they estee 
the Dung of Cattle to be the best manure and improvem 
“ By the Ba aot from below Areguepa, as far as Tar ea a which is above two 
: other Dung but such as comes from the Sea-birds, of 
which there are great numbers and incredible flocks on the Coast of Peru; they breed 
little fends: which lie in the Sea, and are unpeopled, where they tel such heaps 
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wsoever in other parts of au Coast, eee in the 
Tigo Vitlacori, Malla and Chilca, and other Vallies, they dung their 
with = H Meg ofa B sh, like our — = with no — oilage 
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Siis Countries of a 
r groun unds 
eT are cae ee g Pilchards pat up by ihe Sea at di seasons, as are 
not onely sufficient for e Food o n, and Birds, and for dunging the earth, bu 
even to lade many = s, if occasion eae ak Spe is sai 
chased ashore by so s Deicke „or greater Fish by wha 
advanta, age is great, and = - Providence of God is admirable i in these His Blessings 
towards His poor Crea 
Garcilasso de la Vega e Royal Commentaries of Peru. Trangia h from the 
Spanish by. Sir Paul : ri 1688, pp. 135- 
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