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NEW MANSION OF MU. CAPELL, ETC. 
NEW MANSION OF MR. CAPELL. 
*"* I have just completed a dwelling house, which, 
to my own mind, combines neatness, convenience, 
and durability. All of the materials employed in 
its construction are of the best quality—the timber, 
cypress and yellow pine—plastered on the inside— 
a convenient staircase in the middle, and fine tin 
gutters with pipes at the eaves to conduct the water 
from the roof. 
Fig. 27. 
'Perspective View from the South West. 
Description .—The main body of the house, fig. 
Jt8, is nearly square, say 42 by 46 feet, with one 
fortico, E, in front, 6| by 10k feet, and another on 
Ihe south end, 6 by 8 feet. 
A, denotes the dining room, 12 by 20 feet. 
B, the parlor, 17 by 18 feet. 
C, the family, or living room, 17 by 18 feet. 
D, * a gallery, 10| by 24 h feet, which is between 
the front portico and the lobby, or hall, the latter 
being 10 feet wide and communicating with the 
parlor, living room, and dining room. 
At each end of the dining room A, there is a 
fine bed room, 12 feet square. 
- At each end of the gallery D, is a small room, 
10h by 12 feet. 
The house is one story high, with an attic con¬ 
taining two fine large bed rooms with fireplaces to 
each. The cost of the whole, exclusive of the la¬ 
bor performed by my own negroes, was $2,100. 
E. J. Capell. 
Pleasant Hill, Centreville, Miss., Dec. 13th, 1848. 
EXPERIMENTS WITH GUANO. 
I am one of the pioneers in the use of guano in 
this section of the country, having used it for about 
five years. My first experiment was on an old 
worn-out sedge lot, on which I applied at the rate 
of 300 lbs. of Peruvian guano to the acre. The 
product was a fraction over 20 bushels of clean 
wheat per acre. 
My second experiment was upon the same lot, 
with the addition of three acres adjoining. The 
quantity of guano applied was about 400 lbs. per 
acre, part Peruvian and the balance Patagonian. 
The product was 25 bushels of clean wheat per 
acre, exclusive of scrapings. In each of the above 
experiments, previous to sowing the wheat, I mixed 
about a peck of gypsum to every hundred pounds 
of guano. 
My third experiment was also made with wheat 
on six acres of the same kind of land as the other 
two, which were plowed up directly after harvest 
and manured with 400 lbs. of Patagonian guano, 
mixed with two bushels of charcoal dust per acre, 
applied at the time of sowing. The wheat now 
looks fine, better than the years previous, but what¬ 
ever the result may be, next harvest will tell. 
It may be proper to state, that in my first experi¬ 
ment, owing to the previous season being wet, about 
one third of the seed sown did not come up: and 
in the second experiment at the time of seeding, 
the ground was somewhat like a mortar bed, and a 
considerable quantity of the wheat plants were 
winter-killed. The quantity of seed sowed in each 
case was two bushels per acre. 
My fourth experiment was with potatoes, by 
spreading a handful of guano, mixed with plaster, 
to every one or two yards along the furrows after 
the tubers were dropped. The product was mid¬ 
dling, size of the potatoes good, quality first rate, 
and no rotten ones. 
I have also tried guano to Indian corn by apply¬ 
ing it in the hill, but owing to the dryness of the 
season, I have not reaped that advantage I antici¬ 
pated. In one instance, I sowed a small square 
broadcast, plowing in the seed, which resulted in 
from one third to one half more corn than w'hen the 
guano was applied in the hill. The quantity of 
guano used was from 300 to 500 lbs. per acre. 
I have also applied guano to my young fruit 
trees, as well as to almost every vegetable and 
flower on my grounds with marked success. 
Jacob Hewes. 
Leiperville, Pa., January, 1849. 
A Natural Birth Register. —When a native 
of Java has a child born, he immediately plants a 
tree, which, adding every year a circle of wood to 
its trunk, indicates the age of the tree, and therefore 
that of the child. The consequence is, the child 
regards the tree with reverence and affection as long 
as he lives. 
