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The Samples of Table Salt, made entirely from Solar, are 

 superior to any that have ever come under our observation. 

 The pulverized, dry, and perfectly disintegrated condition of 

 its particles, give it a great preference over most of the table 

 salt in use, which becomes damp and solidified by standing 

 exposed to even an ordinary atmosphere. 



The Coarse Solar and Common Fine Salt exhibited were 

 each, in appearance, very pure specimens of these staple vari- 

 eties, and if fair samples of the products of our manufactories, 

 as we believe them to be, they show an improvement in this 

 controling branch of business here, as gratifying to the public 

 as it is commendable to those engaged in it. 



The Committee award silver medals to the Salt Company of 

 Onondaga for their Factory Filled Dairy and Table Salt, and 

 a diploma for the very excellent samples of the other varieties 

 exhibited, 



GEORGE GEDDES, E. W. LEAVENWORTH, 

 J. P. BOYNTON, A. P. GRANGER, 



GEO. 0. ANDREWS, JOHN M. WIETING. 



Report of Prof. Porter, Chemist of the New York State Agricul- 

 tural Society, on the Onondaga Factory -filled Salt. 



STATE FAIR, WATERTOWN, ) 

 September 20th, 1861. j 



To the Executive Committee of the New York State Agricultural 

 Society : 



In the latter part of the month of August last, I received notice 

 from the Secretary of the Society, B. P. Johnson, Esq., that I was 

 appointed a committee on behalf of the Society to report upon the 

 Onondaga Factory -filled Dairy Salt, manufactured by the Salt Com- 

 pany of Onondaga. The nature of the duty to he performed was 

 not specifically mentioned, but ;I presumed it to include a general 

 roport upon the manufacture of tho salt ; the advantages arising, if 

 any, from new methods lately introduced, together with analyses 

 of the. salt, and a comparison of it with the best commercial arti- 

 cles used for a similar purpose. 



The good or bad quality of the salt produced at the Onondaga 

 works, is not a matter merely of Company or private interests ; it 

 is of great importance to the State at large, and especially are 

 agriculturists and dairymen interested in it. The magnitude of the 

 interests involved cannot indeed be well overestimated, nor can the 

 manufacture be subjected to a too careful scrutiny, nor the product 

 be too carefully examined. I regret that limited time and that oth- 



