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.