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with salt for the amount of money that has been spent this 
year in our own county alone in petty agricultural shows, and I 
ask what practical value are they to the public ? 
Having been closely associated with the working of the 
Aspatria Agricultural Co-operative Society since its founda¬ 
tion in 1870, I have paid great attention to the various natural 
and chemical manures, their application and effects on 
animals in health and disease, and during the past ten years 
I have noted the great diminution of blood and parasitic 
diseases on soils which have been dressed with salines—viz., 
common salt and kainit, and it may be interesting to know 
that during this time nearly 5,000 tons of these materials have 
been applied to the lands in our immediate district. 
Hoose in young calves and stirks has almost disappeared, 
and should a case be met with you find upon inquiry that these 
salines have not been applied to the pastures upon which the 
animals have been located. Blood affections, as redwater, 
rheumatism, and blackquarter are also fast vanishing from the 
district, while on lands that have been well dressed with salt , rot in 
sheep is not known , and from close observation I have found the 
use of salt as beneficial to the maintenance of health, tone, 
and vigour in the highest forms of vegetable and animal life 
as it is destructive to the lowest forms of organisation. 
The following are instances of some of the beneficial results 
of its application. A farm at Edderside, when occupied by Mr. 
Twentyman, now of Blennerhasset Farm, had been noted for 
generations for redwater, was entirely freed during his 
tenancy by salt dressings. On Gillgooden, a grazing pasture, 
occupied by Mr. Holliday, Plumbland Mill, redwater was also 
common, and since salt has been applied the disease is un- 
