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Testimonies in favor of salt as a manure and a condiment for horse, cow and sheep, with testimonies of its vast importance in the arts, in ... by testimonies in favor of agriculture
Bartholomew Dacre
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-02-07.
ISBN 9781150900297
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1825 Excerpt: ... towards the middle of the field were purposely left without it: oil these two ridges the turnips totally failed; but the remainder of the field produced a plentiful crop. Jt is farther instanced, that four acres of land, completely worn out by successive tillage, were ploughed before Christmas; three acres were sown with salt, at the rate of twenty-jive bushels, and the remaining acre with eighteen bushels, without any other manure: the crop was in general a good one, but was visibly the best where the greatest quantity of salt had been used. Crops of turnips were subsequently raised with equal success: and in the severe winter of 1794-5, it was much less injured by the frost than others similarly treated and cultivated in the common way." f The distressed state of the labouring classes imperatively calls for effective and permanent relief; and I know not any concession so important and so grateful, which a minister could make to their wants, as a removal of the duty on salt. With salt no poor man can dispense: it is an essential article of his food; it is a necessary ingredient in all his meals; and to such an extent is this the case, that upon a moderate calculation it cannot be estimated at less than three per cent, on his income. The high price at which he receives this necessary article also operates most injuriously to his interests, by preventing him from laying up his store of salted provisions for the consumption of the winter, which is so necessary a piece of his domestic economy, and so essential to his comforts." "A bushel of salt, weighing fifty-six pounds, may be obtained at the salt-works for sixpence; and for sixpence in addition, or less, it may be conveyed to any port in the United Kingdom. But when we consider that 3, 000 per cent, is levi
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