ts or buckwheat.
I have not found it to succeed with corn or potatoes; probably from
being accompanied by a dry season. The best wheat I ever raised was
from using 350 lbs. to the acre, composted. This was on a light
soil, and returned 31 bushels to the acre, on seven acres, weighing
62 lbs. The grass was poor after it. As a top dresser, I have used
200 lbs. per acre, very early in the spring, on half a lot, which
mowed more than half as much again as the part not dressed. One of
my neighbors has used 300 lbs. per acre, plowed in for potatoes;
the yield, good, so far, having just commenced digging.

JOHN HAROLD."

We might give much more evidence of the same kind, to prove that every
barren acre upon Long Island, might be made productive by a judicious
and profitable application of guano; but if there are any persons, who,
after reading these pages, are still doubting, we must say they are most
incorrigably determined not to profit by the experience of others. To
such it would be useless to say more.

_Successful Experiment with Guano as a Top Dressing on Wheat, in North
Carolina._--On page 17, we gave some account of the application of guano
by Henry K. Burgwyn, Esq., since which, we have been favored with the
following letter from his brother, T. Pollock Burgwyn, written, as will
be seen, not for publication, but simply to give the party from whom he
purchased the guano, a detail of his success.

"_New York, Sept._ 20, 1852.

MESSRS. A. B. ALLEN &. Co.--Dear Sir:--Having promised
that I would furnish you with the result of my application of the
21 tons of guano which I purchased of you last winter, I proceed
now to do so, and give you full liberty to quote my experience in
favor of the use of that most invaluable manure, to all who are
anxious to profit by the experience of others without incurring any
risk of their own. My object, and it should be that of every one
who has used guano, is to extend the knowledge of its great value
to any owner of poor soil, like the worn out plantations of North
Carolina. I applied 20 tons of this guano as a top dressing to a
field of 200 acres, which had been seeded in wheat under most
unfavorable circumstances. At the time of application, so
unpromising was the appearance of the growing wheat, that my
manager and myself thought it almost a waste of mone