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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1825. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... all kinds of soil. The practice of manuring lands with sea sand, has, within these few years, been introduced with great success in other parts of Britain. The Cheshire farmers purchase a great quantity of the refuse salt from the salt-boilers; they mix it with dung, and it makes an excellent manure." "When the demand for this salt was great, the salt-boilers had a custom to mix a quantity of soot or other impurity, with the ordinary salt, and it then came under the denomination of refuse salt. There has been sold at JNorthwich alone, nearly 3000 tons of it in one year, for the use of the farmers in that and other counties. On the other hand, to destroy vegetation entirely, it is a custom in Cheshire to lay a large quantity of rock salt upon the soil, when it abounds with rushes and weeds. Hence it seems that salt, when used in small quantities, is a good manure, and when used in large quantities, a real poison to vegetables. Some of the African and Arabian deserts are thought to be barren by having too much salt in them; whilst many parts of Barbary are reckoned to be peculiarly fertile, from their containing a less quantity of it." Testimonies from Dr. Anderson.--See his Recreations in Agriculture. "There is no substance so much relished by the whole order of graminiverous animals as common salt. The wild creatures of the desert are so fond of salt, that when they find a bank of earth impregnated therewith, they resort to it regularly. The American hunter, sensible of this, is here confident of game; he skulks and shoots them as they approach the bank or lick. It is admitted by every body, that salt given with the food of domestic animals, tends very much to promote their health, and accelerate their growth. By a proper use of salt, the same quantity of ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150017995
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 58
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150017996
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 122 gr


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