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Professor Cook's, from Supt's. Rep't, 1854. 



ANALYSES OF COAKSE SALT. 



Onondaga. Turk's Island. 



Chloride of Sodium 97.31 96.76 



Sulphate of Lime 1.05 1.56 



Sulphate of Magnesia and Soda 00 .64 



Chloride of Calcium 0.05 .00 



Chloride of Magnesium 0.05 .14 



Water.. ... 1.54 .90 



100.00 100.00 



REPORT OF GOVERNMENT TESTS. 



Results of certain trials^/ Onondaga solar salt and Turk's Island 



salt, instituted by the General Government during the years 

 1851, 1852, 1853 and 1854. 



It is almost superfluous to say anything by way of fur- 

 ther recommendation of the superior quality of Onondaga 

 solar salt. Its character is fully established wherever it 

 has been used, or can be employed, at prices corresponding 

 with the best imported salt. The greatest pains are taken 

 by the manufacturers to get in their crop in the best pos- 

 sible condition, and to have it packed without any admix- 

 ture of dirt or inferior salt, and to have it thoroughly 

 drained. In these respects, improvements have been effect- 

 ed within the last few years. The works are better put to- 

 gether, the salting process is better understood, and the store- 

 houses where the crop is gathered in and packed (especially 

 the new ones,) are models of neatness and care. The thor- 

 ough system of carrying on their business adopted by the 

 proprietors, generally, renders the duties of the inspection, on 

 the part of the State, but little more than nominal. 



For obvious reasons, at former periods, concerted efforts 

 were made to prejudice the public against the character of 

 New York solar salt. Especially was this the fact in the east- 

 ern cities, where the domestic product came into competition 

 with the imported article. The general government threw the 

 weight of its influence into the scale of the foreign manufac- 

 turer, by establishing a regulation that contract pork destined 

 for the supply of the army and navy should be packed with 

 imported salt. 



Complaint having been made to the President, in 1851, 

 that the regulations of the War Department in this respect 



