the salt now being manufactured. The analyses of Michigan 

 and Ohio Salt are of specimens taken from salt on sale, and 

 the analyses were conducted by a chemist of unsurpassed 

 skill, with perfect fairness, and with the intention to obtain 

 an exact result. 



ANALYSES FINE SALT (BOILED). 



COARSE SALT (SOLAR). 



This variety, produced by solar evaporation of the brine 

 a process very slow compared with evaporation by artificial 

 heat or boiling is particularly adapted to the purposes of 

 packers; and, after the necessary preparation, to the uses of 

 the dairy. In the process of formation and before the brine 

 has reached the point of crystalization, the impurities are pre- 

 cipitated and fall to the bottom of the vat, leaving the brine in 

 a state of almost perfect freedom from any deleterious sub- 

 stances. It is then conducted into clean vats or rooms where 

 the salt is allowed to form, and where it remains until the 

 cubes have attained the proper size to constitute coarse salt, and 

 a sufficient crop to draw from is deposited. The salt is then 

 collected in tubs and drained, partially, over the vats, be- 

 fore removing it to the store-houses, where it is kept until it 

 has become sufficiently dry to be packed for market. Thus 

 through all the processes of producing coarse salt, the greatest 

 care is taken in order to preserve it clean and free from all ex- 

 traneous substances until it reaches the consumer. On the 

 contrary, the coarse salt of foreign countries, being generally 



