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posed Salt, Alkali, and Lime Works, in connexion with 

 the Agricultural districts, thus insuring Salt, Soda, and 

 Lime, on the most economical terms. 



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The proprietors of Baylis and WiJson*s patents, with 

 a view to facilitate the introduction of the proposed Salt 

 Establishments in the Agricultural Districts as quickly 

 and simultaneously as possible, have appointed Mr. 

 R. Cort, late Secretary to the Central Agricultural 

 Society of Great Britain and Ireland, No. 8, Man- 

 chester Buildings, as their agent to carry into effect 

 that object, for the general benefit of the Landed 

 Interest. — See Note, at the end (page 12.) 



As regards the probable consumption that may be 

 expected to afford an adequate scope for beneficial in- 

 vestment in the proposed local Salt Works, it may not 

 be irrelevant to notice, that in the year 1773, when the 

 late learned Dr. Watson published his Essays, he stated, 

 that the demand for Salt as a manure had become even 

 then so great, that at one town only, Northwich, in 

 Cheshire, the. Farmers purchased three thousand tons 

 annually for that purpose^ although it was then bur- 

 thened with a duty of 13s. 4d. per ton, and wheat was 

 as low as 45s. per quater. The total demand for Salt in 

 England is now about half a million tons annually. 

 But if only one-tenth of the 46 millions of acres, at pre- 

 sent under cultivation, were to benefit by the use of 

 Salt, at sixpence per bushel^ in the ratio of half a ton per 

 acre, the demand for agriculture alone, besides all other 

 purposes, would be equal to two millions three hundred 

 thousand tons annually ! 



At such Agricultural improvements every lover of his 



