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near the bottom. There is a white variety, a
trailer, easily managed, good soil.
Nemesia versicola*—Snap-dragou like, pur
plish blue or yellow, and lower lip white, eom- j
mences to bloom when quite small; the variety
compacts has blue aod " bite flowers, and is
profuse in bloom.
Phlox Dntmmohdit Druminoud s I’hlox,
flowers m paricles, about oue inch across, color
varying from white, or pale rose, to crimson;
generally with five dark spots about the eye,
forming a star; one foot, easily managed, and
one of the most beautiful. Ataong its
best varieties are Leopoldiana, deep carmine,
with a white star iu the centre; Magii, white,
flaked with rosy purple; Oculata, white with
crimson eye; and Queen Victoria, purple white- .
A bed of the mixed varieties is splendid. !
Strong, deep loam, and leaf mould. Oflen sows
itself.
Re&'cda odorata —Mignonette, flowers brown
ish, not showy.
Papaver rhoeas, (Corn Poppy.)—The double
varieties only are worth growing, and are sold
under the name of Carnation Ranunculus Pop
pies. They embrace every color and shado ex
cept blue and yellow. The variegated ones are
magnificent. Leaves and stem velvety; ono to
two feet. Pscmniferum Opium Poppy is noarly
as varied in color, and is known, when double,
as the Paeony flowered Poppy; two to three
feet. They require good soil, plenty of room,
and show best in a bod. To keep in bloom, cut
off the seed vessels when the petals fall, (a rule
that applies to all plants,) but of delightful fra
grance. The new large flowered variety is said
to be an improvement; one foot. It does best
in pots.
Saponaria Calabrica, (Calabrian Soapwort.)—
A pretty rose-colored flower, small bud, very
free.of bloom; six inches.
Tropoelum Majus.—Varies in color from pale
yellow to orange scarlet, handsome. Tha green
seed vessels are excellent pickled, a climber, six
feet.
T. Aduucutn, (Canary-bird flower.) —Named
from its supposed resemblance to this bird, with
its wings expanded, yellow. These plants like
a sandy loam, and a northern exposure.
Tournefortia heliotropidos, (Summer Helio
trope.)—Violet bluo, trailing, ono foot, a beauti.
ful bedding plant, resembling Heliotrope.
Viola tricolor*, (Heartsease.) —An imperfect
perennial, treated as an annual. The variety
maxima, or English Pansy, is very desirable.
Its flowers are one and a fourth to one and a
half inches in diameter; colors purple or violet,
varied with white or yellow and plain red,
brown, white, yellow, purple, Jfcc. Sow in au
tumn, and the plants will survive the winter,
and blooit* very early. It may also be sown in
boxes or pots at any time during the winter,
in the pit or early in spring in the open ground,
Seed from Turner's prize varieties is greatly
sought for, and produces beautifhl plauts. Good
friable soil.
Whitlavia grandiflora*.—Large blue, bell
shaped, bf remarkable beauty, oue foot, good
friable soil.
Heranthemum aunuum.—Kverlastiug, purple
or white, one foot, good for winter boquets.
Common soil.
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WINTER PEARS. APPLES, AC.
We succeeded in keeping specimens of the
following varieties of Pears until March sth,
and of one oi. th#n until the 15th. All are ex
cellent. They were kept upon shelves in a
small closed fruit room in the northeast corner
of the building. The room being plastered and
kept dark, the fruits did not shrivel. Josephine
de Molines and Charles Smet surpassed most of
the summer Pears. The varieties were:
Castellaue, March 5, very good.
Josephine de Maiines “ “ best.
Charles Smet, “ “ best.
" Easter Bourre, “ “ excellent.
An unknown kiud, March 15, good.
Mr. Vanßuren’s Winter Belle Apple, the new
variety described by us last autumn, is still
keeping fresh and sound. It seems a rival to
the Shockley as a keeper, while it is better m
quality and size.
——■
Os the Use of Botanical Names tor
Plants. —How common is it for people to sneer
at the use of botanical terms and name 3 of
plants! Those who employ those terms are ac
cused of pedantry and a desire to display their
kno wldge. Now it is true that in-many cases the
common English name of plants may as well be
employed as the botanical name, particularly in
ordinary conversation’; but it is a matter of fact
that there may be a dozen different names for a
plant, even in the same country. This can easi
ly be shown by the columns of the Country Gen
tleman during the past year in the discussion
respecting a weed of the “ antirrhinum” species.
In some parts of the country it is known as
“ snap dragon," iu others as “butter and eggs,”
and so on. Os course this leads to great confu
sion, which would be avoided by the use of the
proper hotauical name.
“ But," say the sticklers for English names,
“ what is the uso of going to the Latin languago
for your terms, when it is just as convenient to
use your own?"
We reply, it is not as convenient. The Eng
lish language is noither copious enough iu its
vocabulary, nor pliant enough in its character
for the use of the botanist. When we consider
that there must be at least one hundred thou
sand species of plants, for each of which a name
must be found, we may well shrink from the at
tempt to manufacture them out of tho materials
to be found in onr language.
These names must be such as shall be under
stood in all countries by men of every language.
The Latin language has been found to be the
most convenient and suitable for this purpose,
and is universally employed.
When we are a little more accustomed to
these botanical names, which appear so terrible
and jaw-breaking to many, they are really no
more difficult to remember than the common
names which we have learned; and the much
greater ease with which' any particular species
of a plant may be designated is certainly a strong
argument in favor of a more general uso of
these derided “botanical terms.”— [Country
Gentleman.
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X3K£ gOTrTK&BJT XXXLS XX&EKXSS.
COMMERCIAL.
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AUGUSTA MARKET.
COTTON. —Muring the |>ast weak the market has .
| been rather quiet, ami the lowpr qualities very dull of
sale—the demand being principally eonflned to the Mid
dling and better grades. The receipts are falling off j
here; hot the total receipts at all sea ports up Us the 27th
Inst- show the following result:
Total receipts 1560—3,965,>07 bales.
“ “ t5V—8,229.613 “
luerease up to March 27th 739.10* “
If the receipts for the remainder of the Cotton season j
are the same as last year (620.357 hales,) the result will j
show a total crop of 4,559.194 bales. A reasonable esti
mate will be 4,500.<V)0 bales, though this may very possi
bly be exceeded.
The market for this week closes quiet at the follow
i ing quotations:
Stained—7@9c
Middlings—lOtg.lOXc
Strict Middling—lo^®.oo
Good Middling—loJi@lo’i
Middling Fair—l@oo
OKOCEKIES.—The leading articles in the Grocery
trade are unchanged. Coffee Is very firm, and prices 1
high.
European Trade with J.yTax.—According
to advices from the East the European trade with Japan
has been stopped In consequence of the manner in which
the traffic for gold has been carried on. Some Indian ;
capitalists are reported to have made large profits through j
the ignorance of the population of the relative value of
gold and silver. The’people, it is said, were induced to
exchange their gold for silver, weight for weight and the
practice was not even checked until they found that tuu
Europeans would not, when occasion required, ha; Ur the
g >ld back on similar terms. A gradual appreciation of
the gold then took place, but even at tho date of last ac
counts a gain of 40 jier cent was being realized by such
purchases as could be effected.
—■ mm- ♦*♦
Commerce of the Sandwich Islands.—The ■
official trade statistics'of the Hawaiian Kingdom for the j
year 1859 show a flourishing foreign commerce. Tho j
amount of Imports was $1,155,555; exports, (931,329.
The increase in the amount of imports over the previous
year is about $484,000. chiefly in the trade with Califor
nia and tho Atlantic States, England and Germany. The
value of merchandise received from the United States,
Pacific side, was $351,375: ditto Atlantic side, (383,559,
from
$117,163; China, $43,035. The chief arttele of domestic
prodnee exported was sugar, amounting to 1,826,000
pounds. For the current year the exports of this article
will probably exceed 2,000,000.
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troduced this fine new variety of Fall-bearing Rasp
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I “ EVERY TEACHER SHOULD HAVE IT.”
HIGH SCHOOL GRAMMAR;
AN EXPOSITION
OF THE
C’oiiNtructlou of the EngliNli Language.
BY W. S. BARTON, A. NT, OF ALABAMA.
12 mo„ half morocco. Price sl.
Tho design of this work Is to furnish students in the I
higher institutions of learning with a general view of
the leading features of English Philology, and to place
in their hands a work that may prove no't only a useful
auxiliary through their Academic and Collegiate course,
but a hand-book of reference for after life.
Special attention has been given to the wants of
Teachers. In the ordinary routine even of Common
School instruction, day by day questions arise either in
their own minds, or arc proposed by their pupils in re
gard to idiomatic forms or some pecuqprities of structure,
which have been scarcely noticed, or entirely pissed
over, in their text-books. Such will find their wants
anticipated, and will be furnished with timely assistance,
that will enable them more thoroughly to discharge the
duties of the important office in witich they are engaged.
VIEWS OF EXPERIENCED TEACHERS.
j Front IK F. Perry, A. M., President of East Alabama
Female College, Tuskegee, Alabama.
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ercises in English Composition, in the College, and pre
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in the hands of our advanced classes.” fVf
From If. Talbird. D. D., President of Howard Col
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From Rev. E. I). Pitts, A. M„ President of Auburn
Female College, Auburn, Ala.
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cently appointed Superintendent of Education for Ala
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concurs with him in recommending the introduction of
Prof. Burton's text-books in English Grammar and Com
position into the Public Schools of the State.”
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“The author has given in plain and simple language
a general view of the leading features of English Phil
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a text-book in the Collegiate Course, but also a hand
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Series now covers the entire ground; he begins with the
young pupil in his Easy Lessons, conducts him through
an Intermediate Course, and completes the whole with
an Exposition of the Grammatical Structure of our lan
guage in his High School Grammar. Itcomineuds Itself
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IMPORTANT TO PLANTERS.^
THE RICHMOND FACTORY, Richmond county,
Oa., continues to manufacture WOOLEN CLOTH
at 12)4 cents per yard for plain, and 16 for twills—find
ing every material except the wooL The extensive and
constantly increasing patronage the Factory hag enjoyed
for years past, assure the proprietors that the article of
Winter Clothing for Negroes, made by them, has not
been surpass.*! by any Cloth made North orSouth.
Recent extensive improvements and others now being
erected, enable us to keep up the standard of the
Goods, and to secure an early delivery.
Planters or others who may wish to send ns the wool
to be made Into cloth, can send it dirty or clean—if wash
ed, it should be done in cold water, nnd done thoroughly.
If sent dirty, we charge half per cent per yard extra for
washing. Burry Wool is not objectionable—the burrs
are removed by machinery. The name of the owner
should be marked upon every package sent
Wool sent by Railroads in Georgia, Alabama, Tennes
see, or South Carolina, to the Augusta Depot with own
er's name, and “Richmond Factory” marked ui>on it will
be regularly and promptly received, and the Cloth,
when made, returned to .the points directed. Each par
cel is made up in the turn received.
We would especially urge upon our patrons the great
necessity of sending in the wool as soon as clipped. If
this rule is followed, the parties would always be sure
of having the cloth in ample time.
All instructions to Messrs. Flkming & Rowland, our
Agents in Augusta, Ga.
A. JOHNSTON,
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“THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.”
THE ATLANTA SPOKE COMPANY is doing its
part in this fight. If Ocorgians particularly, and
citizens of adjoining States really feel what they say
about Southern independence and self-sustaining effort,
now let them prove it We have our works on Peach
tree Creek, five miles from the City of Atlanta, where
we put up, at the shortest notice, all sorts of Spokes,
from “ Carry-log” to the smallest buggy size. All sizes
and descriptions of Hubs and Kims, ns well as the Fin
ished 'Wheel. Wo not only have in our Works the la
test and best machinery now used in Northern factories,
but when we find that we lack n machine of perfect
adaptedness, we have a foreman of genins to invent it
Our “Rim-binder” is unequalled in the world. Our
stockfnow consists of 40,000 hickory Buggy Spokes,
with a good supply of Carriage, Wagon, and Omnibus
Spokes, all of which are made of closely culled timber—
Hubs of red-elm. jiost-oak, and block-gum, and Kims of
second growth white oak, which, for really faithful jobs,
we regard as infinitely superior to any other whatever.
We make, also, ash and hickory Rims. Our Improved
Lathe will turn any shaiied Spoke that may be ordered,
and if onr customers wish any particular shape or pat
tern. they can have it Now if, with our virgin forests,
mild climate, cheap house-rent and full accessibility to
every section of country, wo cannot manufacture ns
good an article in our line and as cheap as can be bad at
any Northern factory, why then go North, us many are
now doing, passing by our doors to reach the shop. But
if wc save you nearly nil your freight—give yon as good
and fashionable a Carriage 'Wheel as you can passibly
get anywhere, had we not as well keep Southern money
here a* to send it such a long way to help “John
Brown J” If any active, business man, with capital,
would like t<> have an interest in this establishment,
proposals will be received for the sale of a half or third
Interest. Address
T. C. HOW VKD.
or. F. A. WILLIAMS.
42-ts / Atlanta, Ga.
NOTICE TO PLANTERS WO OTHERS.
THE undersigned have tho appointment of the Amer
ican Guano Company, as their Sole Agents for the
sale of GUANO (mm Jarvis A Baker's Island, in the
Pacific Ocean, for the States of North and South Baru
lina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee, hereby
caution purchasers against buying from all other persons
—as there are as many as three spurious cargoes offered
in the markets which were not imported by said com-
I>any, and were taken before any chemist had arrived on
the Island to make selections.
Mr. D. 11. Wilcox, of Augusta. has a cargo not import
ed by the Company, and as he refuses to inform us from
whence he received it, it is presumable that It is one of the
cargoes alluded to. Others may be offering the whole or
parts of the other cargoes referred to. But purchasers
will do welt to buy from ns, or our agents, the genuine
nrtielc selected on the Island by com|>etent chemists.
We are selling a large cargo recently landed at Savannah,
direct from the Island, which was carefully selected and
shipped by a competent chemist, sent out for the purpose
of analyzing it before shipment
Seventeen samples of Guano from the Island, forward
ed by Com. Charles H. Davis, to the U. S. Government
were analyzed by order of Mr. Toncev, Secretary of the
Navy, under the direction of Professor Henry, of the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington, which averaged,
viz:
Water 18.2775.
Organic matter containing ammonia. 10.156.
Phosphate, containing Phosphate of Lime, Ac., 71.57.
The result of its use in 1859, by James Gardner, Esq.
1 editor of the Constitutionalist, and Frank Hampton, of
; Woodland, S. C, on Cotton lands. If are no doubt that it
j i* the beet and cheapestof all fertilizer* offered in the
; market, and that Cotton PJantere cannot compete
! iclth their neighbor* without the uee of it.
OUR AGENTS ARE
Messrs. 0. A. 1,. Lamar, Savannah, Georgia:
“ J. C. Dawson, Augusta *•
" Sims A Rust, Albany. '•
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“ Brown, DkKosset A Co., Wilmington, N. C.
•• Wardlaw, Walker A Co.. Charleston; 8. C
“ Gilmkr A Co., Montgomery, Alabama;
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•• Pratt A McKknsie, Apalachicola, Florida;
•• Hopkins A Meg fin ess, Tallahassee, “
G. B. LAMAR.
W. W. CIIEEVER.
Savannah, January 31st, 1800. 37
GUANO!
liwwt TONS of AMERICAN GUANO, from Jarvis'
• \/"U Island, Pacific Ocean, imported in Bulk,and
i Barn-led under my own directions and therefore war
ranted
-PURE AND GENUINE!
The Analyses and Certificates published in Pamphlet
form, and furnished gratis, show this article to be Equal,
if not
SUPERIOR
to Peruvian Guano; and the price is
one-third Less:
Planters and Dealers will find it to their interest to
apply to the undersigned before buying Manures else
where.
34-ts DANIEL H. WILCOX.
GUANO!
FROM JARVIS AND BAKER'S ISLANDS.
THE following certificates will show the value of this
remarkable S’ertllizer:
The following letter is from the proprietor of the
“ Constitutionalist” and “ South era Field and Fireside,"'
published at AngnSta, Georgia. The eminent position
held by Mr. Gardner, renders his voluntary endorsement
of the merits of American Guano of great value.
Avgusta, Ga. Nov. 29,1859.
I applied American Guano to about 85 acres of cqtton.
The field was old land, the oldest I have, but still quite
productive.
I staked oft' one acre, on which there was no manure
or guano. I staked off four acres, on which I put 100
poundsgnanoto the acre, and four acres with 200 pounds
to tho acre. The result, including the last picking, is as
follows:
Seed Cotton.
One acre, no guano 808 lbs.
“ “ 100 lbs. “ 1,091 “
“ *• 200 “ “ 1,800 “
This result is no doubt gratifying to you. It shows
the value of American Guana,,
The guano was drilled in the bottom of the furrow,
and covered by a turning shovel run on each side. About
a month after, the ridge was opened with a small scooter
Slow about four inches wide, so as not to reach quito
own to the guano. The seed was then drilled in, and
covered with n forked plow, made of two scooters, about
one and three-quarter Inches wide each. When the seed
commenced sprouting, a mould board was run over the
ridge. The cultivation after that was the same as the
balance of thecrop. James Gardner.
Rfssei.l CorNTY, Ala, Sept. 19,1559.
i Messrs. Giikby A Co, Columbus, Georgia:
1 Gents — You ask my opinion of tbe merits of the
l American Guano as a fertilizer. I have, the past season,
; used four qualities of Guano in the culture of my prolific
Com, and to test their fertilizing qualities fully, adopted
the following plan: In Janu.-uy I broke up the ground;
in February I broke it up again; in March I subsoiled It,
then checked it off with a scooter plpw four feet by five.
The land is thin, sandy, piney-woods land. In this
check I deposited the Guano and covered It with earth;
over it I dropped the seed com, and covered lightly. On
the first acre I used the American Guano, the second the
genuine Peruvian, the third Reese's Manipulated, at the
rato of about one hundred and eighty ponnds to the acre,
of each kind. The yield on all three of these acres la
superb, and it is hard to tell, without actual measure
ment, which is the greatest.
Many intelligent gentlemen have pronounced the acre
manured with American Guano to be the best of the
three, and lam inclined to tills opinion. It will make at
least three hundred bushels of shelled com to the acre.
The American Guano seems to lack ammonia, but I
think it must more than make up for it in its phosphates,
and from this fact it will prove moro durable and lasting
than tho more volatiio Peruvian. I send you with this
a stalk of corn manured with the American Gnano, that
yon may judge yourself of Its merits. It is truo, it is
notali owing to the fertilizing qualities of tho Gnano, as
the corn is my prolific variety; but when yon bear in
mind that no grain crop can be produced in abundance
from a soil without its specific food, the American Guano
must take a large share of the glory of this yield.
Very respectfully, yours,
Charles A. Peabody.
The following valuable and concise testimony is from
the son of the late Wade Hampton, near Columbia, South
Carolina:
Woodland, 8. C, Dec. 1,1859.
Dear Sin—Herein I send you the result of my experi
ment with American Guano. I think it most conclu
sive.
The best evidence I can give of my high opiuion of it '
is, that I shall make use of it almost entirely for the
next year's crop. Frank Hampton.
For sale in any quantity by
Messrs. C. A. L. Lamar, Savannah, Georgia;
“ J. C. Dawson, Augusta. “
“ Sims A Rust, Albany, “
“ T. R. Bloom, Macon, *•
“ Gun by A Co., Columbus, “
“ Brown, Deßosset A Co., Wilmington, N. C.;
“ Wardlaw, Walker A Co., Charleston, S.C.;
“ Gilmer A Co, Montgomery, Alabama;
” Pomeroy A Marshall, Mobile, “
“ Pratt AM< Ken-si f, Apalachicola, Florida;
| " llopkins A Mkguinuss, Tallahassee, “
Price, S4O per ton of 2,000 lbs., at the Ports, payable in
cash or Factors acceptances, payable next fall with inter
est added. 37
SOUTHERN SEED STORE
yLA-TASJTE respectftally calls the attention of
• Gardeners to bis largo and splendid assortment of
GARDEN SEEDS, from the fatnons establishment of
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that having disposed of his stock of Medicines, his
whole time is now devoted to the Seed Store. Having
devoted many years ot his life to horticultural opera
tions, persons unacquainted with gardening may find it
to their interest to leave the selection of their Seeds
with him.
Rhodes’ Superphosphate of Lime for sale at the
Southern Seed Store. 40
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7(1 ACTIAi 1,, intelligent young men, of good address
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or address PRITCHARD, ABBOTT A CO,
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AVERY large assortment at GREATLY REDUCED
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RHODES’ SUPER-PHOSPHATE!
PLANTERS seeking Manure's, will recollect that
Rhodes' Super i-hosfhatk is the only Manure the
late eminent Analytical Chemist, Prof. Biekell, of Mary
land pronounced Standard! and which has been con
firmed by every section into which this Manure has been
Introduced.
This Manure is sold under a legal guarantee of Purity
and Freedom from all Adulteration, from the eminent
Manufacturing Chemists, Messrs. Potts A Klctt, under
whose personal supervision Rhodes' Supe-Phosphate is
manufactured. This Manure has been used in South
Carolina for several years past, with great success, in the
culture of Cotton and Corn, and Is now thoroughly es
tablished for these important staples. Do not let the sea
son pass withont the experiment
Read the annexed letters from gentlemen who have
tried it the past season.
J. A. ANSLEY A CO.
No. 300 Broad Bt, Augusta, Ga.
Athens, Ga., Nov. 22,1869.
Dear Sir: Rhodes' Super-phosphate has been applied
by me this year, on a small scale, to both Corn and Cot
ton. The result exceeded my expectation, although
the experiments, for many reasons, were not, and could
not be-eonducted with due cantion; yet I am entirely
satisfied that the growth of weed. In both instances, and
the fruit In corn and in the number of bolls of Cot
ton, were fully double the yield in the portions unma
nured, and this when only a tablespoonful of the Super-
Phosphate was applied as a top-dressing to each hill of
Corn, and a tea-spoonful to each stalk of Cotton—and the
last as late in the season as the ISth of July. Some of
the Weed grow to nine feet high, with six feet branches,
covered with boils, while the nnmannred was not half so
good. It is my intention next year to test it more fully.
Very respectfully,
Your most ob't serv’t.
(Signed). M. C. M. HAMMOND.
Union Point, (G. R. R.) Nov. 28,1559.
i Messrs. J. A. Ansucy A Co—Gents: 1 bought a ton of
! Rhodes' Super-Phosphate in Baltimore, lest Spring.
| through Mr. 11. D. Leitner, of Berzelia, to test its value
as a Manure. I put about 126 ponnds on an acre of Cot
ton, In the drill, on land that would not make over 76 to
! 100 pounds of Seed Cotton per acre, without manure.—
' The result is entirely satisfactory. I have made at least
I 450 to 600 pounds to the acre on this very poor land. 1
expect to purchase from 5 to 8 tons for my spring crop.
My overseer wishes me to put bis name to this also.
• Yours, In great haste.
(Signed), P. W. PRINTUP,
deft* WILLIAM FOSTER.
NOTICE TO FARMERS ft PLANTERS.
THERE is great demand for a strong and permanent
u Fertilizer,” aud experience of late years has prov
en the inefficiency of imported manures for securing
crops and renovating soils. To meet the wants of the
times, and give to exhausted lands of the Atlantic and
Gulf countries, a superior fertilizer at moderate cost,
we have pleasure in calling attention to the valuable
comiiound made at the Highlands, New Jersey, and en
titled the “NATIONAL FERTILIZER." suited to
staples of every section.
It is composed of fresh bones, finely ground, and thor
ougly dissolved by Sulphuric Acid, thus affording food in
ready form for assimilation to plant With these as con -
stituting the basis for Phosphate of Lime, are then also
commingled large proportions of Marine Fish, King
Crabs, snd other Crustacea, vieldtng the properties Am
monia—as deposited by birds of tho Guano Islands. To
prevent escape of this volatile element a modicum of
Green Shell Marl is used. By virtue of this the ammonis
resulting from decomposed fish, is at once fixed and laid
dormant, till by natural process It Is set free, and grad
ually absorbed by vegetation ns It progresses. With
three important essentials, Potash and Soda, as combined
with soluble Silica, arc chemiealiy manipulated, and the ,
entire mass is ultimately made fine, dry, and Immediate
ly applicable to toil Tho “ National Fertilizer,'’ as
shown in Circulars, is so compounded by change of these
and other valued ingredients, as to be suited in diversi
ties to any particular staple of the United States. The
Company's Works and Fisheries are very extensive, and
though their enterprise is but recently started, they have
a largo and growing trade. They manufheture one Fer
tilizer for the Cereal Grains, Cotton, Vegetables, Ac., and
another specifically for Tobacco, and mother for Sugar
Cane; thus giving to plants those ailments peculiarly
adapted to them, and which, by rotation of crops, they
are known to extract constantly from the land. Analy
ses and certificates establish tho results of this manure.
It is 80 percent less cost per ton than Peruvian Guano,
but requires heavier application as a sure and lasting ren -
ovator. The National Fertilizer fulfils the two-folu ob
ject of being stimulant to growth, and invigorator to
soil.
Mode of use: broadcast sowing—drilling—or deposit
ing In hills. It possesses but half the moisture of Gnano,
and suffers less deterioration by carriage.
Price |4O per Ton. of 2000 lbs, bnt up In strong bags
of 200 pounds each, or In new barrels, all stamped with
Company's brand, and shipped to any order in the United
States. Agents established in all tho cities. A fair trial,
with discreet and liberal attention. Is solicited.
CARMICHAEL A Agents, Augusta, Ga.
LEWIS M. HATCH, Agent,Charleston, S.C.
WELLS A ANDERSON, Agents, Columbia, 8. C.
OATES A WILLIAMS, * Charlotte, N. C.
0c29 ts
MANIPULATED GUANO.
REPORT of Analysis of Robtnson'sManipulatedGua
no, for Francis Robinson, Esq., Baltimore, Md.
A sample of the above, which was taken at your Mills,
was found, upon Analysts, to be capable of predticlng of
Ammonia,.... 8.81 per cent.
And to contain of
Bone Phosphate of Lime, 45.82 per cent.
Tho above proportion of Ammonia and Bone Phos
phate of Lime Is known to be most proper for Concen
trated Manures. Both theoretical reasoning, and the re
sults of numerous practical experiments have approved
of it An application of 200 pounds of this article per
acre, will supply more of Bong Phosphate of Lime than
Is required for any crop—thus leaving a considerable
surplus of this valuable nutriment incorporated with the
soil aftercropping, and will furnish a sufficient quantity
of Ammonia to act as nutriment and stimulant
CHAS. BICKKLL, Ph. D.
Baltimore, January 28,1869, No. 88, Second St \
REPORT ON MANIPULATED GUANO FOR FRANCIS ROBINSON.
The sample Analyzed was taken by myself from the
bagsin the mill where the Guano was manipulated. It
contained of
Ammonia, 8.24 per cent.
; Phosphoric Acid, 21.98 percent.
Equivalent to
Bone Phosphate of Lime, 47.59 percent.
It Is therefore and excellent manipulated Gnano, con
i taintng enough Ammonia to produce a rapid and vigor
| ous growth, and a sufficient quantity of Phosphates to
j prevent exhaustion of the soil.
A. SNOWDEN PIGGOT, k. D.,
Analytical and Consulting Chemist.
For sale by J. A. ANSLEY A CO.,
30 Agents, 800 Broad st„ Augusta, Ga.
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