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Title: Guano
A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers

Author: Solon Robinson

Release Date: December 23, 2006 [EBook #20168]

Language: English

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GUANO:

A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers;

CONTAINING

PLAIN DIRECTIONS HOW TO APPLY PERUVIAN GUANO

TO THE VARIOUS

CROPS AND SOILS OF AMERICA,

WITH A

BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF ITS HISTORY, LOCALITY, QUANTITY, METHOD OF PROCURING,
PROSPECT OF CONTINUED SUPPLY, AND PRICE; ANALYSIS OF
ITS COMPOSITION, AND VALUE AS A FERTILIZER,
OVER ALL OTHER MANURES.

"If the experience of the last few years has taught us one thing
more certainly than another, it is the unfailing excellence of Guano
for every kind of crop which requires manure."

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.

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.

It is hoped the favorably and well known name of the author, as an
agricultural writer and traveller, together with his ext