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mixing it with three or four times its bulk of fine dry loamy 
earth ; and, of course, using a proportionably increased quan- 
tity of the mixture. Sir T. F. Buxton, Bart., applied to grass 
Guano at the rate of 2 cwt. to the acre ; and Soot 4 cwt. to 
the acre. The produce was 561bs. from a rod, manured with 
Soot, and 1 14lbs. from the same quantity, manured with Guano. 
We shall not, here, recapitulate various experiments minutely, 
but notice their general results; not, however, omitting any 
particulars that may seem desirable to guide our readers in the 
use of Guano. 
Mr. Banton, of Siesdon, had a field of wheat, sown in Octo- 
ber, which through the winter, he says, was thick and strong, 
and, in April, rather forward for the season. On the 23rd of 
April he had six plots, of a quarter of an acre each, accurately 
measured off, and to these respective lots he applied the fol- 
lowing manures, at the rate per acre mentioned, and obtained 
the produce per acre as stated against each experiment respec- 
tively; viz. — 
1. Guano, Ij cwt. produce, 45 bushels. 
It may be only necessary further to remark that the quantity 
of straw grown on the plot manured with Guano alone con- 
siderably exceeded that of either of the others ; the wheat, also, 
was of equal weight per bushel. 
In another experiment, at Wraxall, Somersetshire, 2 cwt. 
2qrs. 291bs. of Guano was tried against 12 tons of stable manure, 
and also against 20 bushels of Bones. Here the Guano was 
sown after the wheat had been drilled in, and harrowed at once. 
The produce from the Guano-manured ground was greatest. 
An experiment with a crop of Swede turnips, at the same place, 
shows the following results. 24 cwt. of Guano, mixed with a 
like quantity of mould, and half as much powdered charcoal, 
produced 17 tons of turnips per acre, each ton of the produce 
costing 2s. Id. for manure. 20 tons of Stable Alanure pro- 
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14 cwt. of the mixture, 
3. Nitrate of Soda, 14 cwt. 
4 White caustic Lime, 4 to 
5. Lime 10 cwt.. Salt 5 cwt 
6. No manure. 
vious to its application 
