PREPARED AND PUBLISHED
BY SOLON ROBINSON,
FOR
MESSRS. F. BARREDA & BROTHER,
AGENTS FOR THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT AT BALTIMORE;
AND
THEODORE W. RILEY, Esq., THEIR AGENT IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK:
1853.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
SOLON ROBINSON,
in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS

[INTRODUCTION]
[PERUVIAN GUANO—ITS USES AND BENEFITS.]
[EFFECTS PRODUCED BY THE USE OF GUANO IN VIRGINIA.]
[DR. FAIRFAX'S EXPERIMENTS WITH GUANO.]
[MR. NEWTON'S EXPERIMENTS.]
[GUANO vs. MANURE—EFFECTS UPON HEAVY LAND.]
[OTHER WITNESSES IN VIRGINIA IN FAVOR OF GUANO.]
[GUANO IN NORTH CAROLINA.]
[EXPERIMENTS IN MARYLAND.]
[EVIDENCE OF THE DURABLE EFFECTS OF GUANO.]
[THE FIVE FIELD SYSTEM AND GUANO.]
[ED. REYNOLDS ESQ., OF BALTIMORE, ON THE VALUE OF GUANO.]
[GUANO IN DELAWARE.]
[GUANO IN PENSYLVANIA.]
[GUANO IN NEW JERSEY.]
[GUANO ON LONG ISLAND.]
[GUANO IN MASSACHUSETTS.]
[EXPERIMENTS BY MR. TESCHEMACHER.]
[DIRECTIONS AS TO QUANTITY AND MANNER OF APPLYING GUANO TO VARIOUS CROPS AND SOILS.]
[PLASTER WITH GUANO.]
[WHAT IS GUANO?—ITS HISTORY AND LOCALITY.—AMOUNT AND VALUE.]
[PERUVIAN GUANO—ITS LOCATION—OWNERSHIP—QUANTITY—VALUE—HOW PROCURED.]
[DOES GUANO PAY?]
[APPENDIX.]
[SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS WITH GUANO ON LONG ISLAND.]

INTRODUCTION

The rapidly increasing use of guano, in the United States, and the growing conviction upon the public mind, that it is the cheapest and best purchasable manure in the world, together with the fact of a great want of information among American farmers, as to the best mode of applying it to the soil, has induced the agents of the Peruvian Government for the sale of guano in the United States, to employ the author of this pamphlet to collect and publish such information.