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Show Salt Fertilizing. The farmers in the vicinity of the Gampo powder mills, in Windham. Conn., use as a fertilizer the salt which accumulates in great quantities at the mills. The salt comes from the saltpeter, salt-peter, and its separation from the niter is a process of refining which constitutes consti-tutes the most difficult and important feature of powder making. In the year 1863 tobacco was pretty scarce in the North, and its cultivation was instituted in Connecticut. At that time 800 tons of salt had accumulated at the powder mills, and it was sold to the Connecticut tobacco growers ns a fertilizer for 1 cent a pound delivered at a wharf in Portland. It took four months to haul it. For what was considered con-sidered worthless, the sum of $16,000 was derived. |