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New-Yorkj is gratifying evidence that as good butter can be made, 

 when our own best salt is used as from any other. One of the 

 successful competitors remarks " that he has used different kinds 

 of salt and finds none letter than the Ono7idaga^ if you get the 

 best." 



The following notice of a trial of our salt by the government, 

 shows the same result : 



Washington, Jan. 30, 1853. 



It is known to the public that the Secretary of War a year ago 

 ordered experiments to be made in packing pork, to test the 

 relative qualities of Onondaga solar salt with Turks Island. 

 Each hog was cut in two on the back, and one half packed with 

 Onondaga solar and the other half with Turks Island salt, the 

 same quantity of each kind of salt being used in each case, and 

 packed in barrels of the same quality. In short the treatment 

 of each kind throughout was the same in all particulars. This 

 pork has been packed for more than thirteen months, and a few 

 days since I saw some of it opened, and it w^as impossible to 

 discover any particular difference between the two kinds of salt, 

 or to see any difference in the quality or preservation of the 

 meat. 



This pork was put into barrels numbered from 1 to 100, the 

 odd numbers being ot one kind of salt and the even numbers the 

 other. They were sent out, one of each kind, to every military 

 station throughout the United States, with instructions to be 

 opened after a given time, and certain tests of the meat to be 

 made by a board of officers under the direction of the officer in 

 command. Many of these reports have been received at the 

 Commissary's office, and yesterday I took occasion to examine 

 them. The result is that it is almost impossible to discover any 

 difference. The greatest is in the loss of weight, after being 

 boiled for an hour and a half. As a general thing, there is more 

 loss in weight in that salted with Turks Island than with the 

 Onondaga solar salt. In most cases the meat is represented as 

 being uncommonly good. The result of this experiment thus far 

 is a full vindication of the quality of the Onondaga solar salt, 



