cre adjoining. On the fourth year he sowed
the same ground without guano--- yield, 4 bushels to the acre. We
see by this, that the crop used the whole strength of the guano.
Another neighbor applied one ton to two acres, heavy loam; plowed
under and sowed with turnips (common Russian)--yield, 1,300
bushels--estimated increase from the guano, 600 bushels. People in
this section of the Island are agreed in this--plow under guano for
durability, and harrow in for present benefit, or present crop. For
wheat, 500 lbs. plowed in is considered a full dressing per acre.
The same for corn. For oats, 200 lbs. harrowed in. For buckwheat,
100 lbs., and 200 for barley. One tablespoonful applied in a hill,
for corn, is quite enough, and that requires to be put some six
inches from the seed; otherwise it will kill it. Some have lost
acres by putting their corn on that little quantity; the only safe
way to apply in the hill for potatoes, is the same as for corn. I
have come to the conclusion from what experience I have had with
the article, that it answers the best purpose to use it for spring
crops, in the manner above stated, or compost it with charcoal
dust, or well decomposed pond mud, to absorb and retain the
ammonia, it being very volatile in its nature. I have not written
this for publication; I have only thrown out a few hints for you to
embody.

SETH RAYNOR."

Although the above was not written for publication, we prefer to give it
just as it was written, in the plain style of one farmer to another.

INTERESTING LETTER FROM EDWARD H. SEAMAN, ESQ., SEC. OF QUEENS CO.
AG. SOC.--Successful experiments since 1847--Great increase of
straw and wheat--Harrowing in guano, 300 lbs. to the acre, produced 41
bushels of wheat. Increase, seven bushels for each 100 lbs--Thirty
bushels of wheat per acre on an old worn out buckwheat field--Advantage
of guano in drouth--astonishing effects from top dressing grass.

_Cherrywood, Sept. 11th, 1852._

MR. SETH CHAPMAN--Dear Sir,--I forward according to
request, the results of several years use of Peruvian Guano, upon
my farm at Jerusalem, Long Island.

The first decisive benefit from guano that I shall notice, was
obtained from using it for wheat, as a top-dressing. In 1847,
October 1st, I took a field containing 6 acres of oat stubble, on
w