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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
fish-manure .
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Examples
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In America fish-guano is manufactured to a considerable extent -- one important source being the menhaddo, a coarse sort of herring.
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Reverted phosphate, finest steamed bone-dust fish-guano, poudrette 83
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From such a practice has sprung up what is now an important and ever-increasing trade -- viz., the manufacture of fish-guano.
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Of fish-guano, the total consumption per annum may be put down at about 8000 tons, of which
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That fish-guano is a valuable manure there can be no doubt.
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There is much truth in Professor Storer's views; and no doubt, as our sources of artificial nitrogenous manures grow more limited, the manufacture of fish-guano will be carried on in the future on a larger and more systematic scale than hitherto.
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In this country the manufacture of fish-guano is carried out to a considerable and increasing extent.
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Mr. C.F.A. Tuxen has already published in the present year two series of experiments on the formation of ammonia and nitric acids in soils to which bone-meal, fish-guano, or stable manure had been applied; in all cases he found the formation of ammonia preceded the formation of nitric acid.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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Large quantities of Norwegian fish-guano are exported to various parts of
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The same remarks apply to it as to fish-guano, although it ferments probably very much more quickly than the latter, and is undoubtedly a more valuable manure.
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