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a select Committee on the Salt Laws, that the saving to 

 be made by using" Salt for Sheep and Cattle of all kinds, 

 in the prevention of losses, and improvement of condi- 

 tion alone, without reference to agricultural produce; 

 would exceed Three Millions Sterling annually. 



These advantages, however gi-eat they appear to 

 be, are not the only benefits which may result to the 

 LANDED INTEREST from the establishment of Salt and 

 Alkali* Works in suitable situations contiguous to Lime 

 stone or Chalk, founded on the Patents of Baylis and 

 Wilson, because, where Salt Works are erected, not only 

 that article will be made from Sea Water, fully equal in 

 quality for Agricultural purposes to any from the best 

 Brine Springs j but Lime also, SLud with the same fuel serv- 

 ing for both operations. Owners and Occupiers will 

 thus save on the average at least 25 per cent, in the 

 article of Lime alone, besides which. Lime, when mixed 

 with Salt, is known to form Soda — a still better manure 

 than Salt alone, all of which may be manufactured in 

 their respective districts, and delivered in most cases at 

 their own doors. 



It is therefore quite impossible to contemplate objects 

 better calculated to render the English cultivator inde- 

 pendent oi Foreigners, than the establishment of the pro- 



* Three tons of Salt will make one ton of mineral Alkali, and as the 

 demand for Home consumption, principally for the soap trade, and ex- 

 port, ■nill not be less than 100,000 tons, here are the means of consuming 

 300,000 tons annually of salt alone ; besides, the manufacture of Alkali 

 woidd render the Country independent of Spain for the supply of 

 Barilla as a substitute, which in 1834 amounted to 512,750 cwt., 

 and last year only 90,000 cwt., and even this quantity will _be more 

 and more superseded, by cheaper methods of making Salt. 



