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Show EALT AS MASI IIE. Various experiments have been nado by M. Peligut and others, in Europe, to test the value of salt its a B nanurc. The following summing up seems to have been arrived at: Salt should never be applied other -than in a pulveroua state, and never employed on impervious, co'd and humid soils. The best manner to use it, is to combine it with other manures, a doso of 200 weight to the aero boing eutticient. When aelei'Ud to destroy insects, it should bo appliid before sunriue. In the cade ol cereals, cut strengthens the stems and anises the ,. . nn r U solution and assimilation of tho phosphates phos-phates and silicateB. It acta vigorously vigor-ously on potatoes and can be detected in their ashes to the extent of one-half of one per cent. Asparagus is ft voritabla glutton in thoprescnt)3 of salt. A doso of 300 weight per acre acts without fail on beet, injuring its value for sugar purposes, pur-poses, but enhancing it for the feeding of cattle. Colza has as m trked a predilection pre-dilection for salt as asparagus, and in Holland, where tho culture- ol peas is so extensive, salt is something like a necessity. Mixed with hay in the proportion of a quarter of ft pound to 100 weight, the fodder is rendered more appetizing ; but the best way to feed it to animals is to allow them to enjoy it iii the form of rock salt. It iB calculated that ahorse appropriates daily one-tenth of an ounce of salt, an ox one-half that quantity, and a sheep aud pig one-half that required by an ox. |