Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Observations on the Employment of Salt in Agriculture and Horticulture: With Directions for Its Application, Founded on Practice
Although the use of salt for live stock is now becoming quite general, yet the enlightened farmer must not suppose that its introduction, even for that important purpose, was the work of a day. The very magistrates were opposed to its use - for, only a few years since, some honest farmer's servants were brought before a justice of the peace at Winchester, charged, by their ignorant master, with the dreadful crime of giving his horses salt in their corn. I should not have suspected it, said the farmer, had not my horses' coats become so fine lately. Salt for horses exclaimed the indignant magistrate, can any thing be more poisonous? Let the rascals be committed to the Bridewell for a month.
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