ing 24.60 per cent, of phosphate of lime and 
les3 than % of one per cent, of potash. A 
portion I applied to corn and potatoes in the 
hill, at the rate of 200 pounds per acre. Soil, 
a dark loam. Varieties, early Minnesota 
sweet corn and peerless potatoes. Alternate 
strips of four rows each planted with and 
without fertilizer. Hills %% feet apart each 
it among the most economical fertilizers 
which the farmer can use, taking into ac¬ 
count the value and variety of plant food 
which it furnishes. The guaranteed analy¬ 
sis of this manure is as follows : 
Nitrogen, equivalent in ammonia.10 per cent. 
Soluble phosphoric acid.....10 " “ 
Potash. o .. ,i 
assimilated. The first seems to have been 
proven. An insect no sooner alights upon 
the open trap and touches the sensitive 
bristles of its surface than the segments 
elose like a hook, sometimes capturing the 
invader and pressing it harder the more it 
struggles. A fluid is then exuded which, af¬ 
ter a while, is thought to dissolve the captive. 
The other problems, viz., absorption and 
assimilation, remain unsolved ; and Dioncea 
OUB BEMEDY FOB FALL WEEDS 
KEBOSENE-HOW TO USE. 
A contemporary says that “of every 
hundred dollars lost by fire not more than 
^0 per cunt, can be said to have been lost by 
accident—that is, by causes against which 
ordinary care is not an efficient defence ; 
that SO per cent, is occasioned by incendia¬ 
rism and design, and the remaining 50 per 
cent, by sheer carelessness.” 
For no small share of the latter we believe 
that the demon, Kerosene, is responsible. It 
is used in almost every house where gas is 
uot convenient or attainable, and usually 
with so little care that the wonder is, not 
that there arc so many accidents, but that 
there are so few. People keep it in jugs. 
WAV**' 
The commercial value of these elements s 
as follows : 
Ammonia, 2U01bs.$36.21 
Phosphoric add, 200 lbs., soluble.31.00 
-Phosphoric acid, 20 los., Insoluble.90 
Potash, 40 lb». 2.50 
Total value.$70.61 4 
We believe this commercial value is con¬ 
siderably less than the agricultural value, on 
the geueral principle that honestly made 
manures are always worth more to farmers 
than their cost. With a guarantee of 200 lbs. 
soluble phosphoric acid, and 200 lbs. ammo¬ 
nia, and 40 lbs. of potash in form for eusy 
and even application to crops, this guano 
should be extensively used by farmers. It 
is only the difficulty of buying manures with 
any certainty of their value that has made 
farming unprofitable, and has diminished 
the fertility of most Eastern farms below 
the standard of successful working. The 
offer of a pure and guaranteed guano at $60 
per ton, in currency, has removed this 
excuse, and intelligent farmers everywhere 
will avail themselves of it. 
THE CABNIVOBOUS PLANT DIONJEA 
MU8CIPULA. 
EECTIFIED PEBUVIAN GUANO 
INSECTS AND PLANTI FEBTILIZATION 
New Zealand is in a bad fix. 
Many things, when first introduced, at¬ 
tract little attention and are soon forgotten. 
Years after, the same thing, reintroduced 
ubder circumstances that suggest a special 
view, excites at once a world of wonder. 
A hundred years ago Dio net a was known 
as Venus’ Fly - trap, and she was nothing 
more. But in an ill - starred hour somebody 
called her a Carnivorous Plant, and the veg¬ 
etable anomaly was torn away from her ob¬ 
scure home in the suvannas of North Caro¬ 
lina, and has since been subjected to a system 
of cruelty never before experienced by any 
other vegetable martyr to science. She has 
been pricked, lacerated, Bcalded and frozen. 
Sho has been tortured with sticks and peb¬ 
bles ; blistered with ammonia and every 
known acid; intoxicated with alcoholic 
liquors and stnpitied with laudanum and 
chloroform,until whateverpride was aroused 
by her possible elevation to a relationship 
with t,he animal kingdom must have been 
long since squelched by the cruel methods of 
ascertaining it. 
Diuuicu is the Princess of fly-catchers, and 
Mr. DARWiN used it more than any other 
possessing similar contrivances, in the ex¬ 
periments recorded in his late work upon 
“Insectivorous Plants.” 
The points to be determined were whether 
the flies or other insects caught and crushed 
The price of this guano places by its leaves were dissolved, absorbed and 
The use of guano has never been so exten¬ 
sive in this country as in England, partly, 
perhaps, because American farmers have not, 
until recently, learned the need of using 
other manures than those made on their own 
farms. The high price of guano has also 
operated to prevent its introduction, and 
there have been, also, well grounded doubts 
as to the purity of the manure sold in this 
country for guauo. Luckily, as the atten¬ 
tion of farmers is being directed to the pur¬ 
chase of fertilizers, the Peruvian government 
has largely reduced its price, and its agents 
in this country, Messrs. Hobson, Hurt ado & 
Co., are enabled to send it out with guaran¬ 
tee of its quality at a cost of $60 per ton of 
2,000 lbs., in bags of 200 lbs each. The raw 
guauo is treated with sulphuric acid (oil of 
vitrol), making its phosphatic materials im¬ 
mediately available. The sulphuric acid, 
also, has the remarkable property of “ fixing ” 
ammonia, holding it so closely that the 
guauo is inodorous, and not unpleasant to 
handle, wliile its available strength is 
greater than when constaut evaporation is 
causing constaut loss. Besides this, the 
rectified guano is freed from stones and dirt, 
is in just the right condition for drilling with 
the seed, and can thus be applied in small i 
quantities with the largest and most imrne- | 
diate results. 
Her farm¬ 
ers cannot produce red clover seed, because 
there is no insect native to the country that 
can reach the nectaries of the flower. Hence 
they are crying for bumblebees, and want 
to know how to get them, and have applied 
to the mother country lor help. It was sug¬ 
gested by the gentleman applying to the 
London Entomological Society tot a supply 
of these needful insects, that they might be 
secured when in u dormant sLate and con¬ 
veyed to New Zealand in that condition 
packed in icu. Inquiry has also been made 
by another resident or New Zealand as to 
the possibility of importing a lot of C'htyso- 
pas. As yet no indigenous .1 phidtH or plant 
lice, bav“ been observed on the island, but 
imported species arc making a good deal of 
devastation. The larva* of the Chryunpax, 
or lace wing Dies, feed on plant-lice, destroy¬ 
ing immense numbers thereof, and ought to 
be cherished where plunl-iice are found. 
The above paragraph is traveling among 
our exchanges. Without doubt the commou 
bumblebee may serve a good purpose in 
fertilizing clover blooms, and may be even 
