Salt should never be applied other than in a pulverous State, and never employed on impervious, cold, and humid soils. The best manner to use it is to combine it with other manures, a dose of 2 cut. to the acre being sufficient.

When selected to destroy insects, it should be applied before sunrise. In the case of cereals, salt strengthens the stems, and causes the ears to fill better, and favors the dissolution and asimilation of the phosphates and silicates, it acts vigorously

OH potatoes, and can be detected in their ashes to the extent of one half or one per cent. Asparagus is a veritable glutton in the presence of salt. A dose Of 8 cut. per acre acts without fail on beet, Injuring its value for sugar purposes but enhancing it for the feeding of cattle. Colza has as marked a predilection for salt as asparagus; and in Holland, where the culture of peas is so extensive, salt is something like a necessity. Mixed with bay in the proportion of 4 ozs. to 1 cwt., the fodder is more appetizing; but the best way to feed it to animals is to allow them to enjoy it in the form of rock salt.