Abstract
Guano as a source of fertilizer impacted Puerto Rico in the second half of the nineteenth century. This "white gold", in high demand among agronomists, brought the dry, isolated islands of Monito and Mona to prominence. This was evident in the mid-1850s when Spain and the United States nearly entered into conflict over the guano of the island of Monito, which was sought by the mid-Atlantic farmers with their depleted soils from tobacco production. However, a concerted effort to develop the production of guano on Mona Island in the 1880s and again in the 1890s would witness the impact of larger business interests. International trade, combining demand and price, would result in a shift of interests from the Mid-Atlantic States to European markets. This article is interested in Puerto Rico's participation in the development of a lesser known agricultural product which pushed the island into the world fertilizer trade.
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