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the last moment that it is only in the spring of the year that 
ova are dropped on the land to pass their prescribed time out 
of the body when the weather and soil are warm and genial, 
which occupies from four to five months, preparatory to re¬ 
entering warm-blooded animals during the winter. Professor 
Williams in his work says, “All writers are agreed that 
common salt prevents the development of the parasites, and 
its application to land would be worthy of a trial.” 
In conclusion—how is it our lands require salt ? Imme¬ 
diately we have a scarcity of rain we all cry out, but how few 
of us think where it comes from, evaporated as it is from 
our mighty waters—it is said the Mediterranean Sea alone 
contributes 52,800,000 tons per minute—and wafted by the 
winds in every direction over the lands to supply their demand 
moisten the atmosphere, and find its way back again by 
rivers to the oceans from whence it came ! This has been 
going on for countless thousands of years, and it stands to 
reason, that a large amount of the soluble material will have 
found its way from our mountain sides and lands to the river 
beds and bottoms of the oceans; nature in her bountiful way 
returning the fluids, as already described, but leaving to 
human agency the replacement of the solids, and for a long 
period nature has been pointing out to us the necessity of re¬ 
turning these matters, by afflicting our flocks and herds with 
certain ailments, more particularly those animals pasturing on 
lands that are not under immediate cultivation. 
Salt is everywhere plentiful; it is readily procured by the 
evaporation of sea water as well as quarried in a solid state 
from the earth, and by our united efforts how soon could our 
lands be well supplied; 20,000 acres could be amply dressed 
