HOME-MADE GUANO. 
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band-wheel), to the upright end-piece, k, of the horse¬ 
power towards the barn, just above the band so as to 
extend over and beyond it on both sides, as it comes 
from the wheel. 
If the horse is not used to working in a circle, ap¬ 
ply him to the lever a few moments before the band 
is put on. It is always best to work new machines 
for the first time a quarter or half an hour before 
threshing with them. 
All the gudgeons or sockets to the wheels and 
pulleys must be oiled frequently with sperm or sweet 
oil; and the cogs of a new machine especially, should 
also be oiled or greased. Be particular to oil the 
shaft, b , on which the band-wheel, g, runs. 
The grain should not be put in until the machine 
is in full operation, and should not be held back in 
feeding, but pushed forward. Spread the grain in 
the hopper, in, when feeding the thresher. 
In setting the horse-power in motion, the tender 
should, in every instance, take hold of the band and 
start the machine as the horse moves, until the horse 
will go without jerking. 
It is important to use steady horses. Do not un¬ 
necessarily expose the machines to bad weather. 
Keep them from rusting. Be careful in frosty 
weather. Use them in all respects as machines 
ought to be used—viz. : as though they could be put 
out of order, if abused. 
If a barn-floor is 20 feet wide by 30 feet long, the 
machines can be used inside the barn. 
These machines are made of good materials, and 
delivered in good order; and if used as directed, will 
not break nor easily get out of order ; and are war¬ 
ranted to easily thresh, in a clean and thorough man¬ 
ner, at least 30 bushels of barley or oats per hour, 
and other small grain in proportion. 
The thresher is set, as it is delivered, to thresh dry 
wheat and other grain. 
Be particular to set the machines firm and correct. 
Put the band on right. Oil all parts, and put the 
machines in motion according to directions. Get up 
the motion gradually, and keep it up; for it is the 
speed of the thresher which threshes, more than the 
closeness of the beaters to the bars of the concave. 
If necessary, the cylinder can be raised by putting 
pieces of leather under the boxes. 
Let the horses walk briskly, and go their circle 
about 4 times a minute. Feed the thresher lightly 
until you become familiar with working it; do not 
hold on to the grain when feeding, but throw it in 
by handsfull, that it may pass immediately through 
the machine, and spread the grain in the hopper 
while feeding. 
Be particular to use new machines carefully. It 
would even be better to run them without doing any 
work for half a day, as a machine will work much 
easier after being used awhile. 
The lever should be straight, but if it is not, let it 
crook upwards rather than down, that the ends may 
not b« too low. 
This horse-power is very compact, and can be 
loaded easily, together with the thresher, on to a 
wagon or cart, and carried to any place in the neigh¬ 
borhood. They have been greatly improved within 
a few years, and are now highly approved of by all 
who have recently used them. They are especially 
well calculated for the south, inasmuch as they are 
the most simple in construction, and least unlikely 
to get out of order; they are also easily managed by 
the hands there. 
Price of the four horse-power alone $80; two 
horse, $50; one horse, $40. Four horse thresher, 
$30; two horse, $25 ; one horse, $20. 
We can furnish any number of recommendations 
of these machines from the most respectable prac¬ 
tical farmers and planters in different parts of the 
country, who have them now in use. 
H. Bartlett & Co., successor to 
L. Bostwick fy Co., 146 Front st. N. Y. 
HOME-MADE GUANO.— NO. I. 
There has been a great deal said and written of 
late about Guano, and no small amount of money ex¬ 
pended for its importation for the benefit of farmers. 
The rage for procuring this expensive fertilizer re¬ 
calls to mind a facetious country dealer, who relates 
the following, among numerous instances of the gul¬ 
libility of his customers. He had a number of pails 
hung around his store, and a somewhat dull genius 
coming in, he says, “ Bill, if you will kick down one 
of those pails, you shall have it for 5 shillings.” 
Bill takes him at his word, and after a good deal of 
floundering, succeeds in bringing one down. Ano¬ 
ther and another is secured and paid for, at a some¬ 
what less price, in consequence of the increased dif¬ 
ficulty of the achievement. “ Well, Bill,” says our 
fun-loving merchant, “ you shall now have as many 
as you want without kicking for three shillings,” 
which was the highest asking price. 
1 would not be understood as underrating the high¬ 
est estimated value attached to this powerful ma¬ 
nure, but only as wishing to point out substitutes 
which may be had, for, perhaps, less than one 
fourth its cost, and without the additional trouble of 
kicking. 
Guano contains nearly all the elements of vegeta¬ 
ble nutrition, in a highly concentrated form. The 
dung of all birds is the most valuable of manures, 
from the fact that their excrements contain the urine 
in combination with the faeces. The evanescent 
ammonia, and the easily dissolved sulphates, phos¬ 
phates, and other salts, are thus embodied in a form 
which renders their escape more difficult; and while 
in this combination, it possesses a high degree of 
fertilizing power. Guano consists of the dung of 
sea-fowls, which is richer than such as live on land, 
in consequence of their food being entirely of fish 
or other marine substances; and it contains, in ad¬ 
dition, all the feathers from their annual moultings, 
and the immense quantities with which sea-birds al¬ 
most invariably line their nests; together with the 
innumerable carcasses and bones of such as have 
perished on their hatching-grounds, and become bu¬ 
ried in the mass. 
By the analysis of Dr. Ure, guano contains, of or¬ 
ganic matter 50 per cent., of which 8 to 17 is given 
off' in ammonia, by slow decomposition in the soil; 
pure phosphate of lime 25; other phosphates and 
ammonia now existing in it 13; and water but 11. 
It will readily be seen that this estimate, which is 
made from the best specimens, contains great value 
in a small compass, and such as fully to justify its 
use, if to be obtained at a price sufficiently moderate. 
The inquiry in England, where the principal 
amount of guano has been imported and consumed, 
seems never to have been made, whether this was the 
