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think it the best I am using, anyhow.
I hope to make a fine exhibit.
J. W. F. Little.
West Point, Ga., August 12, 1872.
I was late in planting cotton last
Spring, and in consequence of late
planting and drought, did not get a
stand until the last week in May. My
cotton grew off very slow, and had I
hastened to reply to your enquiry,
would have been compelled to report
unfavorable as to the resu’t of your
Guanos. At this stage of the crop
I can express myself highly pleased,
as to the probable results. My cotton
promises to yield one bale per acre; if
so it will give entire satisfaction. 1
used principally your Manipulated
250 lbs. per acre. I used two other
kinds of fertilizers—Mape’s and Stone¬
wall Phosphates, both offered to stim¬
ulate and shake off the cotton a little
ahead of yours, but at present they
appear to have exhausted, and the
cotton has st opped growing, while the
cotton fertilized with your Manipula¬
ted looks fresh and growing. I used
1,000 lbs. of the Phoenix Guano com¬
posted with cotton seed, after your di¬
rection. The prospect is flattering,
and you may put me down for one of
your premiums. I succeeded in rais¬
ing a fine crop of oats where l had
cotton planted last year; the cotton
was mauured with your Manipulated
Guano. I think tiie effects of the
Guano almost doubled the yield of
oats. Cotton will average about as
last year; corn some better.
J. W. Story.
Jonesboro , Ga , August 7, 1872.
In 1870, I used a few sacks of your
Manipulated Guano on cotton in red
mulatto soil, at the rate enly of 100
lbs. per acre, and I am satisfied made
at least one-third more cotton by its
use, and in November sowed wheat
on the same land without any other
manure, and I am satisfied again that
it made at least one-third more wheat
tthan it would have done if the Guano
bad not been-applied, In 1871, 1
used some of the Phoenix at the rate
of 100 lbs. per acre on old land, and
although the drought was very severe
it still paid well. I then sowed wheat
about the last of November, and I am
satisfied it paid at least 100 per cent,
on the wheat. I also put some of the
same on some fresh land, which paid
25 per cent, on the cotton, and fol¬
lowed by wheat in the Fall. I think
it paid at least thirty per cent, on the
wheat. I used Manipulated this year
on cotton at the rate of 100 lbs. per
acre. The season lias been good, and
the cotton looks fine at this time
and I think it will pay well.
J. 11. Stockman
Newberry Co., S. C, August 20, ? 72.
I have used your Manipulated Gu¬
ano for three years and am well
pleased with it as a fertilizer. My
land upon which it was used is poor
and sandy. I bedded and re-bedded
my land and used from 125 to 200
lbs per acre, and am satisfied it paid
at least 100 per cent. This Spring
I plauted a piece of corn where I had
cotton for two years past manured
with no other but your Guano, and
my neighbors say that it would be no
better manured with cotton seed. I
also used one sack of Phoenix Guano
this year mixed with double the quan¬
tity of cotton seed. Let it stay to¬
gether about six weeks, then put it
under cotton and as near as I could
tell now, I think it will pay well.
Sampson Williamson.
Barnwell Co , S. C, July 31, 1872.
The ton of Phoenix Guano which
I had last year with dry seasons in
creased the crop at least one-third.
This year I planted on the old bed
without re-application, and there is
as much difference this year as last.
1 think it a lasting fertilizer.
11 L. Allen.
Cross Anchor, S. C. August 15, ’72
I have used Phoenix Guano for
three crops of wlmat with success. 1
put it on old field in Fall of 1870,
and it did well. Ten lbs. of cotton
seed wet and mixed with 200 lbs
Phoenix per acre, will make good
w'»eat. Flias Woolley.
Newton Co., Ga., August 6, 1872.
Manipulated on W heat. —“I have
used the Wilcox, Gibbs <fc 0„\s Ma¬
nipulated Guano on wheat, barley and
rye, and my conclusions are that it is
superior fertilizer for grain than
any other J have ever tried.”
K A T. liini.KY.
Troup Co, Ga , Sept. 23, 1870.
Manipulated on Wheat .—“I used
one ton of Wilcox, Gibbs A Go’s Ma¬
nipulated Guano on wheat, in the
Fall of 1808, and was well pleased
with it. »J as. F. Little
'Talbot Co., Ga, August 12, 1870.
Phoeni.ro i Wheat. —“Dear Sir;
I used both Phoenix and Peruvian
Guano on my town lot last year for
wheat. The yield was 561 bushels
on an acre and a quarter of land
This woui<l be about 45 bushels per
acre of Tappahannock wheat which I
sold for seed at $3 per bushel.
“I discovered no difference in the
yield between the portion where Pe¬
ruvian Guano had been used or the
Phoenix.
“After harvest I turned under the
stubble and sowed the patch in peas.
On the portion of the lot where the
Phoenix Guano was used, I noticed
that the pea vines grow larger and
kept green through the drouth—
whereas where the Peruvian was used,
the vines turned yellow and shed
their leaves.” Kespectfuily,
11. J. Sargent.
Neuman, Ga , Dec. 1, 18GU.
Manipulated on Wheat. —Gents:
I drop you this note to say that i used
your Manipulated Guano last year on
four acres of very poor land (consid¬
ered worthless); planted same in
cotton, got a bad staud, and had ten
weeks drouth, consequently made poor
crop. Last November 1 sowed same
down in wheat; three acres had no
other manure; one acre had a light
scattering of stable manure and about
100 pounds of the Guano. All came
up thick and grew off so luxuriantly
as to attract the attention of ail who
saw it. It was reaped about the 10th
of June. The weather being bad 1
lost considerable of it. I, however,
got seventy-three bushels of g'ood
wheat, although I fed my horses on
green wheat for six weeks, com¬
mencing I while it was in bloom.
Consider the Wilcox, Gibbs
A Co’s Manipulated Guano the very
best application lor wheat lands, and
shall use uo other. I have used it for
Hvy or three years on cotton, and
have seen nothingthat is its superior.”
Very respectfully, F M. Chfnky.
Newton Co., Ga., July 20, 1870.
Phoeni.r on Wheat. — “Gents:
1 hud by the application cf the Phoe¬
nix Guano—a quantity, ot which I
bought last year from your agent at
Conyers, Ga., and put on lands that
have been twenty years in cultiva¬
tion—that toe amount of wheat pro
duccd is about one hundred per cent.
or double what it would have been
without the application.
“I am satisfied troni actual experi¬
ence, that the second yearV crop i*
increased fifty per cent bo the use ot
this fei tiliz *r ” Trios J Nei.ms.
Norton Co. .Ga , June 20.
Mantptdat d on Wh ‘at .— ‘i use ■
W lcox, Gibbs A Go’s Manipulated
Guano, (bought of their ag-nt at
Newberry. Mr. G. T Scott), oti wheat
ia-t Fail, broadcasting it at the rate
of 100 pounds per acre, in November.
The yield was three times as much as
where there was no manure used, and
the land where no Guano was used,
was better land titan that, to which
ilie Manipulated Guano was applied
1 will not sow wheat again without
this Guano.” 8. W. Sample.
EdgeJield Co, S C., Aug. 16, 1870.
Opelika, Ala., August 28, 1872.
Messrs IT. C. Minnurphg <(• Co.,
Savannah, Go :
Gentlemen.—Siui.e my last letter
(three weeks ago) the prospect for a
good cotton crop has materially de¬
clined in East Alabama.
In my own crop the rust and cater¬
pillar have made their appearance and
have worked so rapidly as to cut off
the yield at least one-third. The
damage exists to the same extent in
many portions of this section, over
which i have travelled. la several
plantations possibly 1 do not think it he land
.gan produce over 100 lbs.
seed cotton per acre, injured as it has
been by the caterpillar and rust. I do
not think it extravagant to estimate
the damage at one-third J
Where fertilizers have been freely
and properly used the crops will
range from one half to two thirds of
the yield promised thirty days ago.
but where planters have not used
Guano the injury must be still m -re.
Our only hope is that the decrease in
the yield of cotton will produce a cor¬
responding increase in price; unless
this be so planters may look out for
squally times ahead.
Very respectfully, v<»urs,
L. A. B.
As a subscriber to the Agricultu¬
rist, and wishing to comply with your
request iu furnishing some inform i
tion in regard to-ll e growing crops
iu this section of country, (and being
I suppose the only one that takes the
paper in the Liberty Iliil communi¬
ty), I will endeavor to state what I
know to be facts: The crops at pres¬
ent made are anti very promising. Corn is
very good on the low lands.
Hill lands are almost a failure iu our
immediate vicinage. Cotton generally
backward on account of the dry
Spring, but the late seasons with g od
work will make a good average. I
will again write. Kespectfuily', etc*.
Jas \V. Denton.
Liberty lidl, S. C. Aug. 10, 1872.
1*. S.— Von will please make known
through your little paper where a
good selection ot fruit trees can be
obtained, and oblige, J. \V. 1)
W eekly Review of Augusta Markets.
OFFICE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. *
Augusta, Ga., September 6. 1*72 l*. M.f
COTTON REVIEW.
I lie arrival* (luring the tirst week of the new
cotton year indicate unusual activity in the c>t
ton districts tributary to Augusta, and that
planters are taking advantage of the favorable
weather for picking, ginning and preparing the
staple for market.
Lite destruction wrought by the army worm
in several localities tributary to Augusta is a
matter of serious complaint with a number of
planters exposed to t ho earliest rails of those
destructive pests. The precise per cent ge of
damage wrought by them is. however, a matter
not they yet attacked definitely sett led. In localities where
the cotton plant tin* strongest,
the foliage and tender bolls have been *<>
thoroughly eaten out that they ,-ceui to be
resting from their destructive work, or skip¬
ping about from point to point, without any
systematic plan of further destruction.
Luring the past week a good demand has
ruled in this market, and offerings have been
correspondingly full free, with a maintenance of
prices. Annexed will bo found a resume
of i he week's transactions:
SCOT COTTON.
Katukovy. August 81. The market opened
steady, with good demand. Sales, tut hales;
receipts, 121. Middling, lDuelOJ: Low Middling.
Monday. September 2. The stock on band
ginning by actual of count the on Monday morning, thebe- halos.
new cotton year, was '.MIS
1 ho demand continued good throughout the
day. wadi sales of I5ti halos; receipts, HI bales;
upon a basis of lP;e. for Middling, and ]-i|r.
for Low Middling.
Tuesday, 3. Market continued steady with
good demand. Sales. 342 bales; receipts, 220
bales. Wednesday, Middling, lPjc; Low Middling. JSJ.
t. Market unchanged in fea
ture, with good demand ruling. Sales, IP2
hales; receipts. 112 bales. Middling, lit’; Low
Middling, 1KJ.
i'in itsuAY, 5. -Market continued steady and
unchanged, with a good demand. Sales. 2PP
Middling, bales: receipts, 317 bales. Middling, IP J; Low
IP.
Friday. <!. Demand active, with a slight im¬
provement receipts, m quotations. Sales, 270 bales;
2^7 bales. Middling, 1P\.
TOTAL SALES AND HECK I UTS OK THE WEEK.
Kalos....................................] ,|27
Receipts.................................1,103
COTTON FUTURES.
Monday. September 2. ~5o halos— December
delivery, Augusta, at 1H.
5tt bales September delivery. Augusta, at IP.
50 bales—October delivery. Augusta, at 13*.
COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand September 1. 1*72...... PT.H
Receipts since to date................. 1,1 f>*
2.13b
Exports and home consumption........ 7*U
Stock on hand this day ^.Sopt. 0. 1*72)... 1.353
2.130
CO.MTA IIATIV F. It FA 'El IT-.
Receipts la^t season to Hept. <k 1*71... 311
Receipts present season todato. Sept. G,
1372................................. 1.011
Difference in favor this year........... 703
receipts of cotton.
The following are the receipt* of Cotton by
the different Railroads and the River for the
week ending Friday evening. September G,
1*72 ;
Receipts by the Georgia Railroad bale*.. 195
Receipts bv the Augusta an 1 Savannah #
Railroad.,.............................. 110
Receipts by the River.................... 13
Receipts by the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad............ 2'2
Receipts by South Carolina Railroad...... 30
Total receipts by Railroad* and River.. Gd3