SOUTHERN PLANTER.— ADVERTISING SHEET. 



KETTLEWELL'S GUANO. 



This is to certify that I have been in the employment of John Kettlewellfor 

 upwards of seven years, and that I know him to be the originator of Manipula- 

 ted Guano by machinery ; that he manufactured and sold it before his associa- 

 tion with Mr. Reese, and that during their connexion in business, he manufac- 

 tured about eleven hundred tons of Manipulated Guano at his own works and 

 upon every bag of which the name of John S. Reese was branded, without Said 

 Reese having any agency director remote in the manipulation thereof; that 

 after the separation between them, Mr. K. had a kiln of peculiar construction 

 erected (generally used by chemists) for the purpose of evaporating the water 

 from the Phosphate Guano, whereupon the said Reese or his agent hunted up 

 the same mechanic for the erection of a similar one ; and further that Mr. Ket- 

 tlewell has always with specific and most scrupulous care manipulated his guano, 

 without a single exception, so as to contain the full extent of the Ammoniacal 

 and Phosphate properties which he has advertised to the public, 



CHARLES WHELTREE. 



Sipped, acknowledged and sworn to before M. W. MEARIS. 



Baltimore, March 3rc7, 1858. 



This certificate proves the result of my experiments before I introduced it to 

 the public. Pierceland P. 0., Howard County, is the postal direction to all 

 these gentlemen. 



Anne Arundel Co,, Feb. 7th, 1857. 



John Kettlewell, Esq: 



Dear Sir : — -Interested as we are in everything that promises to promote the 

 great agricultural interests of the country, we take great pleasure, as your 

 neighbors and friends, in bearing our testimony to the results of your experi- 

 ments, upon your own farm, with your Manipulated Guano previous to its intro- 

 duction to the public. Upon a worn out soil you produced a wheat crop equal 

 to any of your neighbors who used Peruvian Guano, which was followed b ; y 

 a crop of clover and timothy equal (especially the former) to any we have 

 ever seen grown upon the soil in Maryland or elsewhere. 



It attracted universal attention, and is freely spoken of with unreserved sur- 

 prise. ^ Neither was it a clover lot, but about fifty acres in two fields of twenty 

 and thirty acres each, the latter being "the best. Since its introduction under 

 your " arrangement" with Mr. Reese, some of us have used your Manipulated 

 Guano in preference to Peruvian, with highly satisfactory results, and we shall 

 continue to do so. 



Most respectfully, your obedient servants, 



JOSHUA ANDERSON, 

 AMOS CLARK, 

 GEO. W. WAR FIELD, 

 JAMES NEW BE RN, M. D. 

 L. W. GOSNELL, anU others. 



The quantity used to produce the above crop w T as 300 pounds Manipulated 

 Guano, per acre, and a top-dressing upon the clover in the spring of one barrel 

 per acre of potash and plaster. The phosphates here show their value, after the 

 wheat crop and the atmosphere had exhausted their ammonia. 



The following certificate proves that I sold the " Manipulated Guano" before 

 my arrangement with John S. Reese. 



