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THE TROPICAL AGEICULTORIST. 
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drawal of the Salt and to provide the authorities with 
necessary arrangements for the joint looking of the 
places. 
3. To keep the Salt only in the appointed and 
announced receptacles, spaces or chambers. 
4. To keep exact books showing the Salt mads 
and despatched, and to place these books before the 
Customs’ Officer whenever required. 
[The enactments for the carrying out of the Tax 
are very detailed; the following are some of the 
points referred to Weighing of Salt in sacks; 
Control and Disposition of Inland Salt ; Duties of 
owners of Salt-works ; Withdrawing from the Depots : 
Allowances for Employees in Salt-works; Eemoval 
of Salt within fixed hours only ; Monthly Statement 
of Sale-owners ; 3 months’ credit on sufficient secj»rity ; 
Stores of Salt; Bonded Warehouses; Customs, 
treatment of Salt springs or Mineral springs, Baths, 
&c.; Foreign Salt how admitted and treated ; Enumer- 
ation of objects freed from Salt tax ; Products in 
Manufactories ; Salt for Charitable Institutions free.] 
exemptions from salt duty. 
The preparation and sale of so-called Baths-Salt 
which is useless for human food is (under following 
conditions) free: — 
1. The manufacturer must make no change in place 
or in utensils employed without consent of the 
Customs’ officers. 
2. He may keep the stores of this salt in one 
appointed place only. 
3. He must follow his directions concerning ap- 
proach and exit. 
4. The Customs’ officers must be admitted any 
hour of the day, and by night also when the boil- 
ing pans are in work. 
Farther, rubbish from the salt works containing 
less than 36 p.c. of salt is quite free of control, and 
that containing less than 75 p.c. of salt is free, 
subject to various conditions. 
The Customs’ officers are to make periodic chemical 
examinations of the salt that is not being denatu- 
ralized and ascertain the exact proportion it contains 
of kitchen salt. 
SALT USED FOR CURING OR PICKLING of 
herrings and other similar fish and for salting of other 
things intended for export is free of duty. The salt in- 
tended for the preserving of herrings is to be de- 
naturalized with 6 Liter (quarts)* of herring brine 
to every 60 kilogram (110 lb.) of salt. 
Salt may also be allowed free of duty for charitable 
institutions or in cases of immediate need. 
The substances that can be used for DENATU- 
RALIZING SALT are the following:— 
A. For salt which is to be used for AGRICUL- 
TURAL or manufacturing purposes. 
(a) For salt destined for the feeding of cattle : 
(aa) For that from made salt : i per cent of oxide 
of iron and J per cent wormwood powder, 
(bb) For that made from rock salt | per cent 
oxide of iron and j p.c. wormwood powder. 
For the denaturalizing of salt, only such wormwood 
powder shall be allowed, as has been prepared ac- 
cording to directions and measures appointed by the 
Customs and has been locked up or taken in charge 
by them ; it must also not be over two years old, 
dating from the time the raw weed was received. 
(b) For so-called cattle-licking rock salt : 
(aa) From made salt J p.c. oxide of iron and J 
p.c. charcoal powder, 
(bb) From rook salt g p.c. oxide of iron and J 
p.c. charcoal powder; 
(c) For SALT FOR MANURE 1 p.c. of soot. 
(d) For salt for manufacturing purposes: 
(aa) From made salt : either J p.c. train oil or 
fish oil and J p.c. iron oxide, or h p.c. train or fish 
oil and J p.c. lamp black, 
(bb) From rock salt either i p.c. train oil and § 
p.c. iron oxide, or J p.c. train oil and g p.c. lamp-black. 
B. One of the following denaturalizing agents can 
be employed for salt destined for manufacturing pur- 
poses or for manure: and which has come from inland 
s.alt works at which it had once been denaturalized. 
The process ca,n be attended to in the godowns of 
the recipient under Customs supervision. If none of 
the already named denaturalizing agents is suit- 
able for the purpose intended, one of these follow- 
ing agents can be employed :— 
(a) 1 per cent black oxide of manganese; (b) 1 
p. c. smalt; (c) J p. c. minium or vermillion* ; (d) 
2 p. c. finely powdered charcoal, peat, black oxide 
of manganese or coal dust; (e) ^ p. c. — lamp 
black; (f) 1 p.c. soot; (g) 5 p.c. palm oil, COCO- 
NUT OIL or train oil ; (h) 1 p. c. fine dried soap 
powder, after a previous testing of its purity ac- 
cording to directions already indicated ; (i) 4 p, c. 
iron or copper ■ vitriol ; (k) 6 p. c. alum with g p.c. 
pine oil. 
For ordered salt, if necessary, some of the follow- 
ing agents may be employed by the Customs’ 
officers; — | p. c. mineral oil (peat oil); i p.c. red 
oxide of iron in combination with 0.05 p. 0 . anirna- 
oil; 2 p. c, sulphuric acid (of 66 °B. diluted with 3 
to 4 parts water), or also only 1 p. c. sulphuric acid 
of 66 °B. with 1 p.c. water, if the salt is for a 
hona fide manufacturing purpose, and if no other 
agent can be employed ; 2 p. c. strong fuming 
muriatic acid; 2 p. c pink saltt ; p. c. chloride of tin. 
Salt refuse can only be given for agricultural 
and other purposes free of duty when it has been 
denaturalized, in one of the ways indicated. Solid 
pieces like pan-stones must be denaturalized in the 
same way as rock-salt. Unbroken lumps can only 
be allowed to individual planters or manufacturers 
under the following conditions : — • 
1. The delivery of the same requires the consent 
of the Cirstoms’ authorities. Detailed information of 
purpose for which used, &c., &c., is required on pe- 
nalty of forfeiting the privilege, unless every re* 
quirement is fulfilled. 
2. Those who require the salt for cattle fodder, 
must state exactly number of cattle kept, &c., and 
fulfil various other regulations. 
CEYLON TEA IN AMERICA: AN 
INTERVIEW WITH THE LADY 
DEMONSTRATOR. 
“ Well," she said, “ You may grumble about 
heat, but I can assure you it was a good deal 
worse in America than this when I left. My 
cu tomers were going in pretty largely for ice'et 
tea then. However I will begin at the beginning, 
and tell you all I can think of about the tea 
enterprise as I have to deal with it. I am working 
under J. H. Parke & Co., the advertisers of the 
Gold Camel blend. Here you see”— she continued, 
taking in her hand a tiny two-inch little tin 
box, daintily got uj) Witli a gaudy picture of the 
gold camel on the lid, and a paper of instruc- 
tions fastened by an elastic strap to the uncler 
side “is our sample tin. There is enough tea 
here for two infusions, and the paper accom- 
panying every box tells exactly how to make it. 
Well, when 1 am going to a place to give a 
demonstration, we first send out a number of 
circulars saying, I shall be at such and such a 
store on a certain day. If it is in Philadelphia or 
anywhere near we send out also our waggon, which 
* With regard to minium or Vermillion, the Ger- 
man word “ menuig” certainly has both these meanings, 
and yet they are totally dilTerent substances. Mini- 
um is “ red lead, ’ i.c., an oxide of the coinnion 
metal lead ; verinillion is a red sulphide of mercury. 
jMenuig also stands for cinnabar, the chief ore 
of mercury of which Vermillion is a purified form. — 
M. COCHKAN. 
t Pink salt is a double chloride of tin and of ammo- 
nium used by dyers. — M. Gociikax. 
6 liters=l'32 gallons. 
