New-York tribune., 1871-01-16
Island and Onondaga Solars for packing Army and
Navy Beef and Pork.


Navy Beef and Pork.
DAIRY SALT.
finer quality of Salt is required for Dairy pur
poses than for packing provisions; and, il any sam
pie Of Salt is pure enough to mpar no bad flavor to
butter it has passed the severest test that expert
ment can give Nothing can 90 beyond the expert
faster in detecting poor Salt unless it be the chem
lists tests in his laboratory.
Importers Of foreign Salt, understanding this fact,
generally turned their attack in this direction, after
the appearance of tho Government reports from
which | have made my extracts; and makers OF
butter were generally notified that they must use
Liverpool (Ashton Salt, if they wished to sell their
butter in your market. To meet this, our salt
makers made arrangements with well known butter
makers in various sections Of this State, from st.
Lawrence to Orange Counties, and in Bradford
County, Penn. to use alternately Onondaga and
Ashton Salt during the of 1861 and prepare,
each, one package salted with each kind of Salt to
be sent to the New-York State Agricultural Fair TO
be held at Buffalo in October of that year. These
manufacturers were guaranteed against loss on ac-
count Of tho use of Onondaga Salt. and great care
was taken that they should treat the packages of
butter that were to BE- sent Buffalo in all respects
alike and that all the circumstances should be the
same except the kind of Salt used; and am entirely
satisfied that these instructions were oboyed.
The butter so salted went to Buffalo, and was sub
iected TO the examination of a committee, selected
by the New-York State Agricultural Society consist
ing of Col O. c. Crockcr of Broome County, Col G
w. Buck of Chemung, and James l.. Crofoot, esq.
of Lewis assisted, at their request, by anumber
of experts that they selected. The examination was
bong and full Two of the committee, and most OF
the experts that assisted them, were inclined in
opinion against our Salt, not having used that made
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| report as follows:
"On entering the discharge OF our duty We found
awaiting examination the largest amount Of butter,
| by far that ever presented at q State Fair"
Butter was produced from many counties IN duplicate
lots, each dairyman sending one tub or nrkn packed
with Ashton and one with Factory Filled Dairy OF
Onondaga and in instance Of examination were
we told the Salt used until had decided the question
l OF the quality Of the butter"
The c0mmitte then give the names of the makers,
and say:
awe pronounced in tceni wire cases. the butter cured
with Factory Filled Dairy salt made at Syracuse, to be
the beet compared in each case with Its alternate
| package cured in the same dairy with Ashton"
In fire cases the AshtOncured the best" But the
committee express the opinion that Of the butter
was injured by the Salt, and say eve have no doubt
that for the preservation OF butter the Factory Filled
| Dairy Salt has 10 superior"
The Salmakers, and the State officers in charge OF
the Salt Springs have considered that this victory
was so decisive that it must remove all doubt as to
the quality of our Salt; and having entire confidence
that the tests were full and fair, do not see how
il is that men can still have the face to say that
foreign-made Salt is better than that of our own
production - unless they are ignorant of these
| exhaustive trials.
Mr. Editor, am called to meet charge never be-
fore made against our Salt so far / know. VIZ:
The American Salt refuses to form into rock,
rs does tine saline product of the West Indies ms
il new and untrue as is proven by the fact that our
Salt weighs more to the measured bushel than any
other salt known to commerce. In max ing our Solar
Salt we avoid the union of crystals into large masses
nv breaking them up mechanically, while i'll the pro-
cess of formation. and then screen the Solar
salt so as to take ont the finer crystals for the use OF
the fishermen leaving the cOarseT part for packers Of
provisions. ] have now living before me a mass OF
Salt that formed undisuTbed from the leakage OF
floor of reservoir that still weighs, after many
pieces have been broken off, 80 pounds, which is only
one pound less than "A statute bushel. Our nanutac-
urers could send their coarse Salt INTO the markets
in larger masses if there demand for such Salt
Ii appears to me that have said all that the public
care 10 know in regard to the qrality of OnOndaga
salt. have said nothing new certainly and have
no expectation of convincing persons that do not
mean TO hear anything against such opinions as their
interests demand should be entertained 10y the pub
lie but do think that the proof presented will be
satisfactory TO candid men who may chance In read
what have written. GEO. GEDDEs.
once SlpL OI,On. Salt Springs, Jan. IA, 1871.
P.S-In my article which yOu printed under the
title The Truth About Salt find that the type
say that the mpOrtatOns have risen from 1850 10 1870
nearly OOOOOO bushels per annum. The context will
show that here and that the lmportatlons
have risen from about l4,DOOOO OF bushels IN lNO
TO 900 in 1870 being increased importation
per annum of over 100000 bushels.