think
this burning of the seed might be avoided.(2)

For buckwheat, I used 120 to 150 lbs. per acre, sown upon the
furrow and harrowed in with the grain. For barley, 150 to 200 lbs.
per acre; oats 100 to 120 lbs; turnips, 600 to 700 lbs. plowed
under a short depth, previously to forming the drill; and I find a
decided profit in using guano for all the above crops. I have seen
a field of corn the present season very greatly improved in earing
by the application of about 150 lbs. of guano, mixed with 5 parts
charcoal dust, and thrown around the hills a few weeks since during
a rain storm.

I have also used guano and charcoal dust, five parts coal to one of
guano, in my garden, the past season, and found the beds thus
dressed stood the extreme drought better than other parts of the
garden. One more case of my own and I am done. In 1851, I sowed
about 90 lbs. of guano, on a piece of meadow or mowing ground,
covering a little more than half an acre, from which the timothy
and clover was nearly gone; I took 3 lands across the lot, leaving
about 20 feet between each land. Where the guano was sown, the
timothy grew large and thick and bore the drought, and yielded
about one and a half tons per acre; while the rest of the field did
not produce more than half that amount, and that of an inferior
quality of grass. The corn upon the same field the present season,
shows plainly a better yield from the above top-dressing. From
observation and experience, I would recommend the mixing of guano
with charcoal dust, equal parts, or five parts coal to one guano,
It is much more pleasant to handle when thus mixed, being
completely deodorized and rendered much more enduring as a manure,
by retaining the ammonia for several years, instead of allowing the
greater part to pass off the first season, as is the case when
applied in a crude state, especially as a top dressing.

Prepared or decomposed muck if used with guano as a retainer of the
volatile gases, in all cases where it can be conveniently obtained
especially in soils where evaporation is so rapid as it is in most
parts of Long Island, will pay.

That like produces like, is a favorite maxim with me--that it is
necessary to replace the matter, both organic and inorganic, which
we take from the soil in