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Show Salt as a PrestTTatiie. To the editor of tho SzcuOJlc American: Thlrty.four years since. I set four i by 41 inch oak hitching posts near my residence, 3$ feet deep in the earth, having first bored ono I Inch hole Into the same some three inches above, and another hole of like size some four inches below the earth's surface, and parUy filling' each hole with salt, and Uien plug- cinc same vlth s ilrr nil- htm. Tl... gists are today sound aud strong. raw your own Inference. . . Wm. T. Smith. Oskaloosa, Iowa, Aug. 25, lb90. |