Wilmington Journal

Guano, how Applied to Wheat-Virginia Lands.

A correspondent at Warsaw, Va., under date of 20th May, writes as follows:

"My Wheat looks finely, especially where I applied guano last fall. I put it in with the seed furrow about 3 inches deep, and also with double plough 6 inches deep, harrowing in the wheat frequently side by side. At this time I can see no difference in the wheat crop. I use a large wooden toothed harrow, extending over the bed of ten feet, and an even soil, free from stone; they do admirable work, and drill the wheat as if put in with the drill.

"Mr. Solon Robinson paid me a visit some ten days ago, and seemed delighted with our county as to its soil, climate, &c., and expressed the opinion that it offered the greatest inducements for farmers at the North to settle here. I believe a clear gain or profit of 10 per cent. would certainly be realized on investment on one of my farms, consisting of 950 acres of bottom land, part in wood, on which I worked 22 hands and six or seven mules; the crops sold in 1849 realized a profit of 15 per cent. In this account annually kept, (for I keep an account of debit and credit with each farm, so as to show every year the net proceeds,) I have not credited the provisions to the children on the farm, nor the pork, mutton, and fodder used at my residence. This farm has had no aid from marl or from lime, only so far as it has been used in composts, which I form annually of marsh mud, farm yard manure, and mild lime, in alternate strata, putting the lime on the mud. This acts finely on all soils and on all crops. I intend using guano on all wheat."--Amer. Farmer.