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SOUTHERN PLANTER—ADVERTISING SHEET. 



learn, has done remarkably well on fall and winter 

 grain — Wheat and Rye — and no donbt will want con- 

 siderable this season to supply the demand, as there 

 is already inquiry making for it. 



Yours triilv, 

 HOSHOUK, KLINEFELTER & CO. 



Anne Arundel Co., July 12, 1858. 

 J/r. John Kettlewell. 



Dear Sir — You asked me to say what the " Manipu- 

 lated Guano" has done Ibr me ; I reply with pleasure, 

 that I used only 150 pounds per acre on my wheat 

 last fall, and until, and up to the time when the crop 

 was struck by rust and scab, I had a fair prospect of 

 20 bushels to the acre. My wheat, though much in- 

 jured as above mentioned, is the best (1 think) in my 

 neighbourhood, and I at|fibute its escape from total 

 destruction, in a great degree, to the use of the ''Ma 

 nipulated." The crop ripened so early and rapidly 

 that it escaped the withering effect of the hot sun. 



I prefer it greatly, and think it more valuable than 

 the pure Peruvian. Yours, respectfully, 



FRANK A. BOND. 



W. M. Watkins, Esq., of Charlotte County, Vir- 

 ginia, writes : 



In the applicbtinn of the ton (Kettlevvell's Manip- 

 ulated Guano) last summpr, nt the rate of 100 pounds 

 per acre, at the last working of the crop, I saw no 

 difference in effect compared with 100 pounds Peru- 

 vian Guano applied at the same time, nor could my 

 overseer, the experiment beisig fairly made. Nor can 

 I or he see any in the wheat which followed the To- 

 bacco crop." 



To John Kettlewell, Esq. — We have sold a conside- 

 rable quantity of your Manipulated Guano, from which 

 we infier that it has been approved ; we have had no 

 one particularly to come to us and make statements 

 of trial, comparing with Peruvian Guano, but we have 

 never had any complaints; we expect still to sell it in 

 common with other Fertilizers. 



Respectfully yours, 



r. A. & S. SMALL. 



York, July 10, 1858. 



The following parties, principally residing in Frede- 

 rick county, one of the most extensive Grain growing 

 counties of this State, have used my Manipulated Gu- 

 ano ; and although I have not convrrsed or had any 

 communication with them, yet I refer to them without 

 hesitation, because 1 know many of them to be the 

 best farmers of this State, and if my Guano has, in 

 any way come short, it should be known. In a sub- 

 ject so importtint, the truth, the whole truth, and noth- 

 ing but the truth should come out. 



Randolph Shafer, Middletown. 



Sievt^n R, Bowlers, Midletown. 



Bpiijamin Routz ihn, Middletown. 



William Fogle, Liberty. 



Cliarles Lease, Mount Pleasant. 



Henry Storr, do do 



Jacob Burrier, do do 



G. W. Buckey, do do 



Jacob Booker, Johnsville. 



A. C. Devilbiss, Liberty. 



M. Zimmerman, Creagerstown. 



Moses Grabill, Woodsboro'. 



Prof. D. Beltzhoover, Emmettsburg. 



Samuel Neesbaum, Mount Pleasant. 



Daniel Shellman, Frederick. 



Henry Stouffer, Walkersville. 



Wm. Murphy, Woodsboro'. 



James Graham, Ladiesburg. 



Geo. McCoskery, Woodsboro'. 



Landers &, Keefer, Mechanicstown. 



Jacob Walker, Frederick. ' 



Lewis A. Barr, " 



J. A. Harlsook, Johnsville. 



Ephraim Creager, Mount Pleasant. 

 Daniel McDaniel, " " 

 Wm. Stockman, Jefferson. 

 Hanson EcUer, Graceham, 

 Augustus Hoover, Graceham. 

 George Uiner, Mount Pleasant. 

 Robert Shafer, Middletown. 



Isaac T. Robinson, of Glenalta, Marion County, 

 Georgia, writes : 



" Where the Manipulated was used on Cotton, it ie 

 fliUy 100 per cent, better than on some land on which 

 nothing was applied." 



" The test of Manipulated Guano and Peruvian is 

 about equal now, but of course the making season is 

 yet to come." 



Queens Ann Co., Maryland, ? 



July 15th, 1858. 5 



Dear Sir: 



I purchased a Farm last May twelve months, in 

 this county. I fallowed forty five acres which was a 

 wheat stubble. The field only paid me 50 bushels 

 for my third; I then flushed and sowed it in w"heat, 

 with eight tons of your No. 1 Manipulated Guano. 

 My neighbors think I will get one thousand bushels 

 off of the field. I sowed the field in Timothy and 

 Clover, and I do believe I have as good grass of its 

 age as there is in America, and [ must say with plea- 

 sure and truth, it is the good qualities of your Ma- 

 nipulated Guano. I prefer it to improve poor land 

 for crop, and to start grass to any other Guano I 

 ever saw. Respectfully, 



S. R. CLAYLAND. 



To John Kettlewell, Esq., Baltimore, Md. 



Near Laytonsville, Montgcjmery Co., Md., ) 

 July, 1858. 5 



Mr. John Kettlewell: 



Dear Sir — As agent for the sale of your valuable 

 Manipulated Guano, you have jequesled me to re- 

 port the standing of your Guano in our county with 

 our farmers. I have to report universal satisfaction ; 

 I name N. C. Dickerson, E. R. Griffith, J. Warfield, 

 Walter Magruder, H. Crawford, F. M. Griffith, and 

 could go much further, were it necessary, who believe 

 it equal, if not superior to the best Peruvian Guano 

 for the first crop. I bought of you in the spring of 

 1856, known then as Reese's Manipulated Guano, and 

 ! have been your constant patron since. I have tried 

 I on all crops in all ways, and do not hesitate to say 

 that I esteem ii superior to Pt^ruvian Guano — because 

 it produces an equal crop, when first applied, if not 

 better — flir better in second crop, and admits of no 

 comparison for grass. I use none other than the " Ma- 

 nipulated," and rest assured as long as you keep 

 the article to the present standard, it must su])ercede 

 the Peruvian with us. Respectfully vours, , 

 URIAH H. GRIFFITH. 

 In addition to names g:iven by our agent above, we 

 name A. B. Dav s, Dr- F. Howard, E. J. Hall, near 

 Brookeville, F. Valdevar, near Colesville, &c., &c. 



Washington City, July 12, 1858. 

 Dear Sir — In affording the informaMon you ask for, 

 it gives me pleasure to say, that I have not only not 

 heard a solitary complaint in regard to your " Manipu- 

 lated Guano," of which I have had considerable quan- 

 tities, but one constant and gener 1 applause as being 

 precisely the article wanted by the farmers. They 

 prefer it even to Peruvian, even those who have yet 

 to test its lasting and durable qualities — among the 

 many who 1 have heard express this opinion, was 

 Jno. M. Donn, Esq., of Loudoun county, Va., Benj. 

 Cay wood, Esq., of Fnirfield, or Loudoun, Martin 

 Irich, Esq., Virginia, T. Coonally, and indeed all 

 with whom I have ever conver ed with, that used it. 

 Yours, respectfully, 



' R. J. RYON. 



Mr. John Kettlewell, Baltimore. 



