LIBRARY O^- m ^"Sr* 184 188 9' CHRISTY'S CYCLOPEDIA OR \ IlOW^ TO DO eve]ryth:iiv&5 : i AND I I HOW EVERYTHING IS DONE, Containing the most Valuable Information on all subjects of interest, with about one hundred and fifty of the Best EVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. jrST WHAT ETERYBODY IVEEDS AXD WAIVTS. Knowledge that has Cost the Author Thousands of Dol- ^ lars by experience and otherwise. ^ ^XEP ^AK£ rOK .^VKHY ^AMILY. SlSli: CONTET^TS. PRtCE OJVE M>OIjL.,1R, PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, T. J. CHRISTY, Olney^ Ills. | Printed by O. T. B>.gk, Journal Office. jj A> Eutereil acconlingf to act ot Couo^ress, in the year 1871, by T.J. CHRISTY, Mj the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. PREFACE, In presenting this work to the Public, I feel coDfident that it will be thankfully received, and appreciated by all who peruse its pages. iSever betorb has so much valuable information been published in so small a work; it contains all new and valuable discoveries of the age, together wMth all Secrets and Eeceipts of all professions and businesses. There are several Eeceipts in this little book, that are worth ten times its weight in gold, and no family should be without them. My desire is to give the public the benefit of all ray knowledfije, and experience of several years of traveling through about sixteen States in the Union, and in mingling and dealing with all kinds and classes of people. Several times 1 have paid exlravagent prices to obtain some mans t^eeret of doing or cureing something. And whereas the public is being continually imposed on, 1 propose to furnish th^m with a ready adviser upon all sub- jects, and which will save them dollars upon dollars, if gov- erened by its dictates. It tells you how all kinds of valuable remedies are made. It tells 3'ou hovv all kinds of Soaps are made. It tells the secrets of all professions and trades. It tells just what every body wants to know. This book will be mailed free to any address in the TJ. S. OQ receipt of price, One Dollar, by addressing T. J. CHRISTY, Olney, Illinois. AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER. 1871. contp:nt9. PAGE. Ague Pill 17 A^ne to cure without, quinine ..17 Asthma to cure ....11 Burns to cure 1(3 Boils to cure 2 Dve for the hair 29 Dveing carpet warp, green, purple, yellow, and pink 30 CONTENTS . Dye tor woolen cihiison and scarlet 36 Dyes red 87 Distemper in horses to cure 40 Eyes a valuable remedy for 10 Eges how to keep 89 E^os to preserve 38 Flux to cure 14 Fits to cure 17 Frosted feet and salve to cure 18 Felons to cure 24 Fluid for writing and coppying 27 Feathers to clean 35 Foot evil and ii^tnla to cure .48 Founder in horses to cure 48&49 Flies to keep fi-oni horses 4(5 Glue liquid 23 (^ingerljrcad how to make 38 Glanders in horses 49 German ijuOs the best way to make 37 Hair to dye 29 Hair to grow soft and glossy 34 iJair how to color 35 Hair restorative 30 How four ponds of butter is n«ade from one gallon of milk. 42 Horses to break 42 Hide bound how to treat 45 Hog cholera to cure 50 Horses 1 he end of 50 Horses to get out of fire 49 Hooks in horses to cure 49 Honey artificial how^ to make 32 Ink c'oppying and all other kinds 28sary, repeat the dose in four or six hours. The almost constant effect of this treatment if enjoined with a few simple precautions, ^s to cause an imme- diate .sensation, as it were, of warmth in tLe stomach, accom- panied by almost total relief of the nausea and sickness, like- wise curing the distressing headache, and usually causin^j- a quite sleep, from which the passenger awakes quite well. Platiii^:; and Criiding %vitliOUt a Battery. Watt's Electro Metallurgy says: A very useful solution of silver or gold for plating or gilding without the aid of a but- tery may be made as follows: Take, say, 1 ounce of niti-ate of silver, dis.A^lved, in ] quart of distilled or rain water. When thoronghl}' dissolved, throw in a few crystals of h}^ posulphite of soda, which will at first form a brown precipi- tate, but which eventuall}' becomes redissolved if sufticient h^-posulphite has been employed. A slight excess of this salt must however, be added. The solution thus formed may be used for coating small articles of steel, brass, or German sil- ver, b7simpl3' dipping a sponge in the solution and rubbing it over the surface of the article to be coated. 1 have suc- ceeded in coating steel verj' satisfactory by this means, and have found the silver so firm!}' attached to the steel (when the solution has been carefully made) that it has been removed with considerable aifiicuity. A solution of gold may be made in the same way, and applied as described. A concentrated solution of either gold or silver thus made, ma3' be used for coating parts of articles which have stripped or bhstered, by applying it with a camel hair pencil to the part, and touching the tpot at the same time with a thin clean strip of zinc. 22 PLATIXG ON IRON, METAL BLACKING, AND OINrMP:NT. Plating ou Iron or Steel. If your inquirer will follow the directions below, he will have no trouble in plating on iron or steel. Take two quarts rain water, dissolve two pounds cj'anide of potassium, and filter. This solution is only for steel or iron. In order to plate steel or iron, dip it into pure sulphuric acid for one minute, then clean with pumice stone and brush; nnce, and hang in cyanide solution of potassium for three minutes, or until it Decomes whitej then hang in silver solution until plated heavy enough. ITIetaii Founders' Blacking. To provide metal founders with a blacking possessing good sleeking and heat resisting properties, and lo enable them to produce castings with smooth skins of desired hues, the inventor mixes sea weed, sea grass, or sea plants, in an}' con- venient or desired proportion, with still coke, peat charcoal, soft wood charcoal, gas coke, coked coal, oil retort coke, coal dust, soot, hard wood charcoal, or other suitable coke or charcoal, or with lime, chalk, or cla}', or with a mixture of two or more of these substances. The seaweed may be ad- ded in the newly cut, partiallj' dried, or dr-ed and pulver- ised state to the coke, charcoal, lime, chalk, or clay, the lat- ter being either in a rough or ground condition. The addi- tion of seaweed to coke, charcoal, lime, chalk, and clay in evQvy proportion, so long as the moisture is sufficient to cause the mixed mass to form a paste in the process of re- ducing or grinding or to cause the particles of the blacking when furnished to adhere and form lumps, is beneficial eith- er, first, for improving the quality, or, second, for reducing the cost. This is £n English invention recently patented by J. C. Sellars, Birkenhead. Spermaceti Ointment. Valuable as an Ingredient of the above; also as a Dressing for Blisters or Old Sores, and as a Healing Ointment- Take 1 ounce of spermaceti, I 1-2 drachms of white wax, 2 ounces ofsvveet olive-oil (in very hot weather, 1 3-4 ounces). Melt together over a gentle fire, and stir constantly till cold. PLASTER PARTS, CEMENT. AND GLUES. 23 I Plaster of Paris. I It is said that tho addition of a email quantity of finely pulverised marsh-mallow roots to calcined plaster of Paris will prevent the mass, when mixed with water, from hard- ening so rapid I3' as it commonly does, ao as to prevent its applicability to many purposes. It will require nearl}" an hour to become thoroughl}- set; and then it will be found to have acquired such an extreme toughness and tenacity as to permit it to be filed, turned, and boared, and otherwise man- ipulated, almost as satisfactorily as ivory, bone, or meer- schaum. Mixed with different coloring matters, an excel- lent imitation of marble can be produced. Cement for Metal and Glass. — The following cement will firmly attach any metallic substance to glass or porce- lain : Mix two ounces of a thick solution of glue with one ounce of linseed oil varnish, or three fourths of an ounce of Venice turpentine; boil them together, stirring them until they mix as thoroughly as possible. The pieces cemented sliould be tied together for two or three days. Diamond Cement. — Take isinglass, soak it in water until it becomes soft, then dissolve it in proof-spirit, and add a lit- tle resin-varnish. Used for joining china, glass, &c. An excellent and reliable cement. Very Durable Cement for Iron and Stone. — M. Pol- lack, of Bautzen, saxtony, states that, for a period of several years, he has used, as a cement to fasten stone to stone and iron to iron, a paste made of pure oxide of lead, litharge, and gl3'cerine in a concentrated state. This mixture hard- ens rapidl}', is insoluble in acids, (unless quite concentrated,) and is not affected b}' heat. M. Pollack has used it to fas- ten the different portions of a fly-wheel with great success; while, when placed between stones, and occe hardened, it is easier to break the stone than the joint. Liquid Glue. — Fill a vessel (I use a glass jar) with bro- ken-up glue of the best quality, then fill it with a acetic acid. Keep it in hot water for a few hours, until the glue is all melted, and you will have an excellent glue always ready. 24 BONE FELON, ROSE-SALVE, BURNS AND SCALDS. ♦ ■ - ■ ■ ■■ - ■ . ■ -■ . : . a. Cure for Ifone Felon. As soon as you discover that you have a felon forming, get a small fly blister which appi}' and leave on six or eight hours, or until it blisters. You will then have only a blister to cure, as you vvill not be troubled further with the fylon. We have known this to succeed in numbers ot cases, and a great deal of suffering escaped. How TO Cure a Eelon. — First apply an ointment of iodide of iron, then on this put a warm poultice made with a strong decoction of sweet-flag r^^ot and bread. Eenevvthis often for at least twelve hours, or until the felon is brought to a head. A cure will be effected in from one to three days. A Sure Cuke FOR A Felon.— 'Apply a poultice of onions; renew ever}^ morning, noon, and night, for three or four | daj-s. No matter how bad the case, lancing the finger will '; be unnecessary if this poultice be used. The remedy is sure, safe, and speedy. '' Rose-Salve. For Sore Lips, Chapped Hands; also for softening the Skin and beautifying the Complexion. Take, of pure white wax, 1 ounce; of fresh olive-oil, 2 3-4 ounces. Melt together, in a glazed earthen cup, over a gen- tle heat. Place it, in while melting, ]-2 drachm of alkanet- root, previously tied in a coarse and thin muslin bag; observ- ing, frequently, to squeeze out the bag, so that the color may be diffused through the fluid. Do this until a deep-red color is obtained. When the ointment has been made, and is cooling, add 10 drops of genuine oil of rose, and stir the whole together till it is cold. For B&irus and Scalds. Take 1 ounce of spermacti ointment, 2 drachms of Goul- ard's extract (liquor of the subacetate of lead). Thoroughly mix with a wooden spoon. Spread thickly upon lint or linen, and apply to the parts. Eenew the application several times a day. This is an invaluable remedy. RHEUMATISM, NEURALDIA AND TOOTH-ACHE. 25 A Speedy Cure for Rtieumatism. Dr. R. H, Boyd states that he curas inflammatory rheu- matism in from three to seven days by the following meth- od: He givea first a full emetic dose of ant et potass, tart., and when this has operated, five drops of tinct. opii and five drops tinct. colchici every three or four hours, and a tea- spoonful of a half-pint mixture, containing 8 iv. potass, acot. every hour. When the patient becomes very hungry, and is quite free from pain, having fasted several days, he allows two tablespoonfuls of milk or one oyster three times a day, increasing the quantity gradually each day. — Michagan Un- iversity Medical Journal, May, 1871. Carnial Neuralgia Relieved l>y Oelseminum. .Dr. Philip U. Williams states, that in supra-orbital neural- gia, not malarial or dependent upon organic disease, the yel- low Jessamine affords the utmost relief. He is himself sub- ject to violent attacks, which are always controlled by this remedy, all others having failed, and he has confirmed this experience on a great many others. In neuralgia of the scalp it has the same happy effects; in maxillary and spinal neuralgias it has failed. One dose of 30 to 40 drops of the tincture usually suffices. Sometimes it is repeated after an hour, and the 20 to 30 drop doses every four hours, continu- ed some days, will prevent recurrence. — Baltimore Medical Journal. Toothache and Neuralgia. Remedies. — Ar given by Dr. Chase. Best alcohol, 1 oz., laudanum, 1-8 oz., chloroform, liquid, 5-8 oz., gum camphor 1-2 oz., oil of cloTesl-2oz., sulphuric ether, 3-4 oz., and oil of lavender, 1 dr., if there ii a nerve exposed, this will quiet it. Apply with lint, also rub on the gums and upon the face against the tooth freely. No family should ever be without the above in the house, for it never fails to give ease. Magnetic Pain Killer and Toothache Drops. — Alcohol 95 per cent, 2 oz laudanum, 1-2 oz gum camphor 2 oz, oil cloves, 2 drs. Mix and color with tine of red sanders. 26 BOILS, DIARRHEA AND STLVKR-PLATIXG. Excellent Tootli Paste. Suds of caetile soap and spirits of camphor, of each an equal quantity, thicken with an equal quantit}- of pulver- if. COLOGXK, SHANIXG C'RE.SM AXO .^ILVKK- WASH , iVew York B.\RBEas, Star Hair .Oil.— Castor oil 6 1-2 pts., alcohol, L l-^pt,8., citronei 'a and lavender oil, each 1-2 oz. Sold at one dollar per bottle. Ox Morrow. — Melt 4 oz., ox tallow, white wax, 1 oz., fresh Urdj 6 oz.; when cold add 11-2 oz., oil bergamot. I Hair Restorative. — Castor oil, 8 oz., jnmaica rum,- "8 oz., i oil lavenders, 80 drops, oil rose, 10 drops. Shake well and I apply freel,y. i I CoLONE. A Superior Article.-— Take 90 per cent, best I alcohol, 1 gal, adil to it 1 oz.,oil of bergamot, 1 o/., orange, i 2 drs., of oil cedar, 1 dr., oil of nevol, and Idr., oil of rose- 1 ninry. Mix vveil and it is lit for use. 1 ^ j CoLONE Water. — Oils rosemary and lemon, each 1-4 oz., 1 oils bergamot and lavender, each 1-2 oz., oil cinnrvmon, 8 drops: oils cloves and ro'-^e, each 15 drops, deadorizeil alcohol, 2 qts; shake 2 or 8 times a day for a week. Sn.iViNG Cream. — White wax, spermacti, and almon<4 oil, each 11 oz.; melt, af;d while warm beat in 2 squares of Windsor Boap, previously reduced to a paste with rose water. Yarnisii for Iron Work. — To make a good black varnish for iron work, take eight pounds of asphaltum and fuse it in an iron kettle; then add live gallons of boiled linseed oil, one pound of iitherage, half a pound of sulphate of zinc (add these slowly, or it will funic over,) and boil them about three hours. Now add one and a half pounds of dark gum amber, and boil for two hours longer, or until the mass will become quite thick when cool, after which it should bo thinned with turpentine to due consistency. Cslecrated ItECiPK FOR SiLVER Wasei. — One ounce of nitric acid, one ten cent piece, and one ouiice of quicksilver. Put in an open glass vessel, and let it stand until dissolved; then add one pint of water, and it is ready for use. Make it into a powder by adding whiting, and ife may be used on brass, copper, german silver, etc. CEMEXT AND TRAXSFEKIXn. 31 Cemext for Aquaria.— Many persons have attempted to make aquarium, buc have failed on account of the extreme difticulty in making the tank resist the action of water lor any length of time. Below is a receipt for a cement that can be relied upon; it is perfectly free from anything that injures the animals or plants; it sticks to glass, metal, wood, stone, etc., and hardens under water. A hundred different experiments with cements have been tried, but there is noth- ing likejt. It is the same as that used in constructing the tanks of the Zoological Gardens, in London, and is almost un- known in this country. One part, by measure,"8ay a gill, of litherage; one gill of plaster of paris; one gill of dry white sand; one-third of a gill of finely-powdered rosin. Sift and keep corked tight until required for use, when it is to be made into a putty by mixing in boiled oil (linseed) with a little patent dryer added. iN^ever use it after it has been mixed (that is, with the oil) over fifteen hours. This cement can be used for marine as well as fresh water aquaria, as it resists the action of salt water. The tank can be used im- mediately, but it is best to give it three or four hours to dry. Transferrixg on Glass.— Colored or plain engravings, photographs, lithographs, water colors, oil' colors, craynon, steel plates, newspaper cuts, mezzotinto, pencil, writino- show cards, labels— or in fact anything. ° Directions.— Take glass that is perfectly clean— window glass will answer— clean it thoroughly; then varnish it tak- ing care to have it perfectly smooth; place it where it will be entirely free from dust; let it stand over night; then take your engraying, lay it in clear water until it is wet through (say ten or fifteen minutes), then lay it upon a newspaper, that the moisture may dry from the" surface, and still keep the side damp. Immediately varnish your glass the second time, then place your engraving on it, pressing it dowa firmi}', so as to exclude every particle of air; next rub the paper from the back, until it is of uniform thickness- so thin that you can see through it, then varnish it the third time, and let it djy. Materials used for the above art.— Take two ounces bal- sam of fir, to one ounce of spirits of turpentine; apply with a camel's hair brush. 32 ARTIFICIAL HONEY. PRESERVATION OF MEAT, . • i'. ' ■ . . ■ . ■ . ■ — v^.-,- To Transfer Engravings to Plaster Casts. — Cover the plate with ink, poliph its surface in the usual way, then put a wall of paper round; then pour on it some fine paste made with plaster paris. Jerk it to drive out the air bubbles, and let it stand one hour, when you have a fine impression. Receipt for Making Artificial Honey. — To 10 lbs, su- gar add 3 lbs. water, 40 grains cream tartar, 10 drops essen- ce pepermint, and 3 lbs. strained honey. First dissolve the sugar in water and take off the scum; then dissolve the cream of tartar in a little warm water, which you will add with some little stirring; then add the honey; heat to a boiling point, and stir for a few minutes. Preservation of meat, Tegataliles, &.c. In the Moniteur Scientifique for March, 1871, Dr- G. De- clat describes a process of preserving both vegetable and and animal food material, which is said to have been used successfully in Paris. It consists in soaking the substances in aqueous solutions of various strengths of pure carbolic acid, and then drying them. Darkness in Treatment of Small-Pox. Mr. J. H. Waters states that if a patient, in the beginning of the attack, be put in a room from which absolutely all light is excluded save that of a candle, the effect is to arrest the disease in the popular or vesicular stage; it never be- comes purulent, and the skin between the vesicles is never inflamed or swollen; the liquor sanguinis is prevented from becoming pus; the large scabs of matter never form over the face; there is no intense pain, and only trifling itching, and the smell is either very slight or altogether wanting. — Lon- don Lancet. PreTentitive of Sea-Sickness. Boil two ounces of opium, two drachms extract of hen- bane, ten grains of mace, and two ounces of soap, in three pints of water, for half an hour. When cold, add one quart of rectified spirits and three drachms of spirits of ammonia. To be used as an embroeation. STRONG DRINK, CHAMPAIGN, AND BLACKBERRY WIXJI. 33 Cure for the LoFe of Strong I>rink. Tartar emetic, 9 grains; rose water, 4 oz. Mix. Pat a table-«poonfuI into the whole quantity the person drinks through the day. Be sore not to exceed this quantity. Receipt for ^auufacturing American Champagne. For ten gallons of water take one and one-half pint of ! brewer's yeast, one-half pound of tartaric acid, (or quantity i to suit taste,) and five pounds of common coarse brown sugar. Make the water milk warm, put in the yeast first; ten min- ntes after put in the tartaric acid and sugar; then let it cool, stirring it occasionallj' through the day. Bottle at night, aft«r it has settled. You can color and improv ounces, liquid hartshorn, one drachm; tincture cantharides, \ two drachms; oil rosemary, twelve drops; oil nutmeg, twelve | drops; and lavender, twefve drops. This is the recipt used j in making the celebrated Graham Ongent. I BALM OF BEAUTY, BLEACHING FEATHERS AND CHOW-CHOW. 35 Directions to Color the Hair. — First wash the head, beard, or moustaches, with soap and water; afterwards with clean water. Drj-, and apply the gallic acid solution, with a clean brush. When it is almost dr}-, take a small tooth comb, and with a fine brush, put on the teeth of the comb a little of the silver solution, and comb it through the hair, when it becomes a brilliant jet black. Wait for a few hours; then wash the head again with clean water. If j'ou want to make a brown dye, add double or treble the amount of water to the silver solution, and you can obtain any shade or color you choose. Balm of Beauty. — Pure soft water, one qt., pulverized castile soap, four oz., emulsion of bitter almonds, six oz., tincture of benzein, two drs., rose and orange flower water, each, eight oz., borax one dr; add five grs., of bichloride of mercury to every eight ounces of the mixture. To use, ap- pl3' a cotton or linen cloth to the face, etc. This is a reliable article and gives the manufacturer a large profit. New Method of Bleacliiaig or Disinfecting Feathers. Clean the feathers first from greasy matter, and then place them for three hours in a dilute solution of bichromate of potassa, to which a small quantity of nitric acid has been added. The feathers will become greenish from a deposit of chromic sesqui-oxide, which is removed b}^ weak sulphur- ous acid, when the feathers are left perfectly white. The nascent oxygen developed in the reduction of the chromic acid to the oxide is, of course, the bleaching agent, and so powerful is it that the darkest feathers will become perfectly white. Ciiow-ciiow. — Take quarter peck green tomatoes, same quantity, each of pickling beans and white onions, one dozen each cucumbers and green peppers; one head of cabbage. Season with mustard, celery seed, and salt to the* taste. Pour over these the best cider vinegar sufficient to cover; boil slowly for two hours, continually stirring, and add, while hot, t\yo table-spoonfuls of the finest salad oil. 36 DTBIXG CARPET WARP. Recipes for Dyeing Carpet Warp. It shonld be borne in mind thafc the material when wet al- ways looks darker than it will when dry, and in order to judge whether the desired shade is obtained, it is necessary to ring out a small portion quite dry botbre deciding that the shade is deep enough. After the material is dried it should be thoroughly rinsed in an abundance of soft water until no more color is imparted to the water. Green. — For three pounds of warp, take one pound of fustic, one-half pound of logwood chips, a piece of blue vitri- ol the size of a hickory out, and three pails of water. Boil one hour. Purple. — For fifteen pounds of warp, take four pound of logwood chips; boil them in two pails of water. Dissolve on© pound of alum in a pail of hot water; pour the alum wa- ter into that containing the logwood, and boil your cotton in it one hour. Yellow. — For five pounds of cotton, dissolve eight ounces sugar of lead in four quarts of warm water, and dissolve five ounces bicromate of potash in three quarts of warm water. Put the cotton in the lead water first; wring it out and put it in the bichromate of potash water; continue until you have the shade you wish. Pink. — ^For five pounds of cotton, take two pounds of Nic* auragua or red wood, four of solution of tin; boil the wood an hour in six quarts of water. Pour the dye into a tub and ad the solution of tin; put in the cotton; let it stand five min- utes, and you will have a nice color. [The solution of tin may be had of the druggists, under the name of the chlorid* OP muriate of tin.} To Dte Woolehb, Red, CRnisoj^, and ScARtEf.— Coarte woolen stuffs are dyed red with madder or archil, but fine cloth is almost exclusively dyed with cochineal, though the color which it recieves from kermes is much more durabl»^ Bra25il-wood is scarcely used, except as an auxiliary, because the eoIoF which it impart&^to wool is not pcrmanontv CAKES, PUDDINGS, &C. 37 Red Dyes. — The coloring matter employed for dyeing red are archil, madder, carthamus, kermes, cochineal, and brazil- wood. Cocoa-nut Cake,— Take one-half cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three eggs, one cup of milk (sweet,) three and one- half cups of flour, one tea-spoonful of baking-powder, one coca-nut, grated fine. Beat the eggs and sugar together, then add the flour and milk; lastly add the cocoa-nut. Mix well, and pour into a pan for tbe oven. Green Corn Pudding.— Take twelve ears of corn, split the rows in the centre, then scrape out the pulp with a knife; this will leave the hull on the cob. Add four eggs, one pint milk, one spoonful butter, sweeten and flavor to taste. Bake one-half hour. Favorite Cake.— Three cups sugar, two cups batter, five cups flour, one pound fruit, one cup milk, five eggs, one tea- spoon soda. German Puffs.— One quart of milk, six eggs, sixteen ta- blespoonfuls of flour, and a little salt. Bake in small tins. To Make fine Kolls.— Warm a bit of butter in half a pint of milk; add two spoonful of small beer yeast and some salt ; with these ingredients mix two pounds of flour; lot it rise one hour, and kneed it well; form the rolls, and bake them in a quick oven twenty minutes. Cocoa-nut Pie.— Cut off the brown part of the cocoa-nut, grate the white part, and mix it with milk, and set it on the fire and boil it slowly eisrht or ten minutes. To a pound of cocoa-nut allow a quart of milk, eight eggs, four tablespoon- fuls of sifted white sugar, a glass of wine, a small cracker pounded fine, two spoonfuls of melted butter, and half a nut- meg. Tbe eggs and sugar should be beaten together to a froth, then the wine stirred in. Put them into the milk and cocoa-nut, which should be first allowed to get quite cool; add the cracker and nutmeg, turn the whole into deep pie- plates, with a lining and rim of puff-paste. Bake them as I soon as turned into the plates. 38 PRKSKRVATTON OP EG G6, RUSKB, BISCUITS, &C » Steam Puddixo. — One quart flour, one coffee cup chopped raisins or currants, one teacup chopped suet, one teacup half filled with molaeses, finish with brown sugar, one teaspoon soda, two teacups sweet milk, a little salt. Mix, and steam three hours. Sauce. Sponge Gingerbread. — Two poundof flour, one ot sugar, one of butttr, six eggs, one pint of molasses, one pint of milk, two tablespoonful of ginger, one of cinnamon, one of cloves, two of pearlash. To MAKE Rusk.— One cup butter, one cup sugar, one pound of flour, one pint of milk, turee eggs, one cup of yeast, one teaspoonful of saleratus. Bake in a quick oven. ExcsLLKNT Biscuits.— Take of flour, two pounds; carbon- ate of amonia, three drachms in fine powder; white sugar, four ounces; arrowroot, one ounce; butter; four ounces; one egg. Mix into a6tifl:'paste with new^ milk, and beat them well with a rolling pin for half an hour, roll out thin, and cut them out with a docker, and bake in a quick oven for fifteen minutes. Omlette Souffle. — Beat the whites of ten eggs to a stiff froth, the yolks with three quarters of a pound of white su- gar, juice and rind of one lemon; mix all together lightly. Butter a dish that will just hold it, and bake ten or fifteen minutes. Preservation of Eggs. — Eggs may be preserved for any length of time by excluding them from the air. One of the cleanest and easiest modes of doing ttiis is to pack them in clean, dry salt, in barrels or tubs, and to place them in a cool and dry situation. An old shipmaster says he has eaten eggs thus preserved that were a year old, and that had been some months aboard ship, in a tropical climate, and yet retained all the peculiar sweetness of newly-laid egi^s. Some persons place eggs which they wish to preserve in a netting, or on a sieve or cullender, and immerse them for an instant in a caul- dron of boiling water, befor packing them away. Sometimes eggs are placed in vessels containing milk of lime, or strong brine, or rubbed over with butter, lard, or gum watery all ot which act by excluding the air. BT'tTEK, HOrSK PAIXT AXD WASHING COMrOVNP. 39 Butter, How to Keep.— Butter can be kept sweet and nice for a whole year by working into it a very little pow- dered loaf-sugar and powdered saltpeter; put into a jar or tub, make a brine with salt as strong as water will dissolve and completely cover the butter with this; then make a email muslin bag and fill with salt and put in. Care muat be ta- ken that the butter is alwaj-s covered with the brine. To KEEP Eggs.— Add to four quarts of air slacked lime two tablespoonfuls of cream tartar, two of salt, and four quarts cold water. Put fresh eggs into a stone jar, and pour this mixture over them. This will keep nine dozen, and if fresh when laid down, they will keep many months. If the water settles away so as to leave the upper layer uncovered, add more water. Cover close, and keep in a cool place. Cheap White House Paint.— Take skim milk, two quart?; eight ounces fresh slacked lime, six ounces linseed oil, two ounces white burgundy pitch, three pounds Spanish white. Slack the lime in water, expose to the air, and mix in about one quarter the milk; the oil, in which the pitch is previously dissolved, to be added, a little at a time: then the rest of the milk, and afterwards the Spanish white. This quantity is sufficient for thirty square yards, two coats, and costs but a few cents. If the other colors are wanted, use, instead of Spanish white, other coloring matter. flow to make a Valuable Washing Compound. Take one pound of Babbit soap, slice it up finely, and dis- solve it in two quarts of bailing soft water. Then in another dish, take ten ounces of sal soda, six ounces good white un- slacked lime, soft boiling water two quarts, and two ounces of borax. Mix well, then let stand and settle, after which pour off the clear water or solution into the dish containing the soap, which should be kept hot; then stir well and add one half-ounce of aqua amonia, and one half onnce of ben- zine; mix all together thoroughly and set away to cool, and you have the best compound in'the world. Directions for using.— Put on your water iind let it warm, then put in one pound of the compound, to every three gal- lons of wat«r. Put in your white clothes «nd let them boil 40 SOAPS ALL KINDS. very briskly from ten to twenty minutes, according to degree of dirtiness. Kinse in two waters, blue and hang out. Put yoir colored clothes in the same suds and let them boil very slow, eight or ten minutes, rinse thoroughly and hang out . Then set your boiler on top of the stove and put in your woolens, not allow- ing them to boil, but keep in the hot jjuds five or ten minutes. Take the suds and mop your floor. Throw a little water on 3'our white clothes over night, or let them soak in warm compound suds an hour or so before boiling. Don't crowd yonr boiler too full or put in clothes twisted hard from wring- ing. Friction Soap. — Take five pounds of brown soap, and ten pounds of fine sand. Heat them well together over a slow fire, add whatever kind of scent or coloring you desire, and while it is yet warm, make it into one-quarter pound cakes, and it will readily sell at ten cents a cake. It is an excellent thing for the toilet, and all kinds of washing, clothes ex- cepted. It will cure skin diseases of every description. Erasive Soap. — This receipt alone is worth Ten Dollars to any family; it costs but little to try it. Aquse amonia, two ounces; white shaving soap, one ounce; saltpetre, one tea- spoonful; soft water, one quart. Chemical Soft Soap. — Take grease eight pounds, sal soda one pound; melt the grease in a kettle, melt the sodas in soft water, four gallons, and pour all into a barrel holding forty gallons, and fill wuth soft water, and the labor is done. I When the caustic soup cannot be obtained of soap-makers, I you will make it by taking soda-ash and fresh slacked lime, of each eight pounds; dissolve them in the water with sal soda, and when settled, pour off the clear liquid as in the "White Hard Soap with Tallow.'' Soda Ash Soap. — Take of soda ash, two and one-fourth pounds; unslacked lime, one and one-half pounds; rain water, six gallons; boil one hour, then set off to settle. Pour off the clean liquor, and add to it six pounds of clear grease, and boil till, when cold, it is hard. This will take about two hours. WASTTINPr FLUID. SOAl'VINAGKK. 41 To Make Washing Fluid. — To one gallon of soft soap (such as is made by the usual method of boiling the 13'e of wood ashes and fat together), take four ounces ot sal soda, half a trallon of rain or soft water, and one-half gill of spirits of turpentine. Place them all in a pot over the fire, and al- low the mixture to boil a few minutes. It is then ready for use, and can be kept in an earthen or stone ware vessel. In using this fluid, the clothes intended to be washed should be soaked ten or twelve hours — say over night — and then to a ten or twelve gallon boiler, or kettle full of clothes, covered with water, add one pint of fluid; boil briskly for fifteen min- utes, and then rinse them in firesh water. It will be found that little or no rubbing, of an}' account, will be found nec- 68 a r}' Silver Soap for Cleaning Silver and Brittannta. — One half pound of soap, three tablespoonfuls of sprits of turpen- tine, and half a tumbler of water. Let it boil ten minutes; and add six tablespoonfuUs of spirits of hartshorn. Make sudds of this and wash with it. To Make a good Washing Soap without Lie or Greece. — One pound of yellow bar soap; Babbitts is the best; ore pound ot sal soda, one ounce of borax, four pounds of soft water. Mix all together and boil fifteen minutes. It will make four pounds of soap when cold. Spread the soap on the dirt}' streaks in your clothing and put them to soak in a tub of water over night and you will save half the labor in washing. Yinegar from Acetic Acid and Molasses. — x\cetic acid, four pounds; molasses, one gallon, put them into a forty gal- lon cask, and fill it up with rain water; shake it up and let it stand, from one to three weeks, and the result is good vin- egar. If this does not make it as eharp as you like, add a little more molasses. But some will object to this becaui^e an acid is used: let me say to such, that acetic acid is con- centrated vinegar. Take one pound or one pint, or any other quantity of this acid, and add seven times as much soft water, and you have just as good vinegar as can be made from cider, and that instantaneously. 42 BUTTER. BLUING, AND BREAKING HORSES. How JOUR POUNDS OF BUTTER IS MaDE FROM ONE GALLON OF Sweet AjILK. — Tuke one gallon of sweet milk, warm and curdle as you would if j'ou were going to raake cheese, (beefs runnet is most commonly used for the purpose) then empty into a common churn, and add eight pounds of butter churn all together for five or ten minutes, then empty out out into a large bowl and work out the whey and color with a little Annetta; now make into rolls and weigh, and you find you have twelve pounds of butter instead of eight pounds, but you have no buttermilk. I have known per- Hons to make butter as above and sell in the markets at first class prices without detection in cool weather, but it does not do well in warm weather. 1 do not recommend the above, but give it from the fact that there arc persons going about through the country selling receipts fi'om five to ten dollars to make four pounds pounds of butter from one gal- lon of sweet milk. Liquid Blueing for Clothes — Take best Prussian blue, pulverized, one ounce; oxalic acid, also pulverized, ene-half ounce; soft water; one quart; mix. The acid dissolves the blue and holds it evenly in the water, so that specking will never take place. Oneortwo tablespoonfuls of it is sutiicient for a tub of water, according to the size of the wash. This is far prefferable to the blueing sold at stores, and is mnch cheaper. Breaking Horses. There is nothing more unreasanable or unwise — we are almost tempted to say inhuman — than the old methed of treating horses — namely, allowing them to ruo wild until a certain age, and then having a violent con- flict wit'j them for the mastery. On this subject a well known horsman offers the following sensible remarks: "1 am glad to see that the practice of breaking horses is growing into disuse. Gentle your horses and acquaint them M'ith the duties which they shall have to perform, but never whip them. Accustom them, from their earliest colthood, to be handled; pet thorn tintil they enjoy your societ}-; in fact, win their love by kindness. Let them learn what a halter is in a manner which will not shock or frighten them. Teach them to put up with straps and buckles, and, when old e- nough, have them daily bear or drag some light load; but do SITRE CTRK FOR 150XK SPAVIN. 43 it all kindly, and gradually lead them on in their education, so that when the proper time comes, they can be saddled or harnessed with neither risk nor trouble. But to throw the whole burden of a three years' education upon them in about the same number of days, and to conqure the poor, trembling animals by brute force, is it human and unreasonabl. Let us learn and teach our children to treat the animals given us for our service by our Master, in a manner worthy of human beings/' To RcinoTe Boae Sparain from Horses wilout Fail. One ounce of oil vitriol, two ounce of oil spike, two ounces spirits turpentine. Mix all the aoove in an earthen dish, then add one ounce of oil vitriol. Great care should be ta- ken to fasten the bottle of vitriol to a stick three or four feet long to prevent your getting burnt, as the ingredients will ignite and burn awhile when the vitriol is added. Directions for Use.— First apply once a day for three days, then let lest three days, then grease well. Be careful a^nd not let jtget weT before it is well greased. Then wash with castile soap and apply again as above. Continue the pro- cege according to directions until lameness is removed. 1 could give several other remedies but it not necessary as the above never fails to cure. Perhaps you might prefer the following 8S00 receipt: Corrosive sublimate quicksilver; and iodine, each one ounce: \Tith lard only sufficient for a paste. Directions.— jRub the quicksilver and iodine together, then add the sublime and finally the lard, rubbing thoroughly. Shave off the hair the size of the bone enlargement, "then grease all around it, but not where the hair is shaved oft, this prevents the action of the medicine, only upon the spav- in; now rub in as much of the paste as will lie on a five cent piece only, each mornine for four mornings only. In seven or eight days the whole spavin will come out then wash out the wound with guds, soaking well for an hour or two, which removes the poisonous effects of the medicine and faciltates the healing, which will be done by any of the healing salves. 1 would use the Green Mountain Salve, which is made as follows : Eosin five pounde, burgundy pitch, bees wax, and I 44 SPAVIN AND POLL EVIL . mutton tallow, each one quarter of a pound, oil of hemlocif, balsam of fir, oil of origanum, oil of red cedar, and venice turpentine, each one ounce; melt the first articles togetber, then add the oils, and put it in with the other aticies, Stirling well, then pour in the cold water and work as wax until cool enough to roll. This salve has no equal for rheumatic pains, or weakness in the side, back, shoulders, oran}^ place where pain may locale itself. When the skin is broken^ as in ulcers and bruises, I use it without the verdigris, making a white salve. Another Spavin Cure. — Take equal parts of oil^spike, oil of amber and spirits of turpentine, warm the compound on the stove, being careful that the fire does not get to it, and ap- ply PS warm as you can to the spavin, by pouring it on and rubbing it in well with the ball of your thumb, having first shaved the hair ott" the spavin. JRepeat twice per day for two da3'8, when if well rubbed, it will become a running sore. Then wet a sponge with the compound, and apply it twice per day for three daj's, then stop for three days, and if the spavin has not disappeared, repeat the dose for three days longer. Let the sore heal, then wash it with suds from castile soap, and the spavin will disappear. To Cure Poll Evil and Fistula. Take an herb commonly know as sheep sorrell, which grows most everywhere and mash it up, either the root or herb itself and put in water and boi! down to a strong thick tea. Take some of the same and put in a puter dish; set it in the sun until it evaporates and thickens about as thick molasses. Wash twice per day with the tea, and apply after each bath- ing the thickened tea as you would salve. This never fail to effect a permanent cure. Anothkr cure for Fistula. — Open the sore with a knife, then roll thirty grains ot arsenic up in a small piece of pa- per, an press it down in the cut; and let it remain there 18 days; then pare out all dead flesh, wash it with soap every day. Heal it up with rosin and muton lallow in equal por- tions. THE HORSE AND HIS DISKASF9. 45 Corns ix Horses, how to Treat. — Cut out the stain, if a supperating corn, place the foot io a poultice after having opened the abscess; the horn being softened, cut away all the sole which has been released by the pus from its attachment to the secreeting surface; tack on an old shoe, and dress ■with the solution of chloride of zinc one grain, to the ounce of water; afterward shoe with leather and employ stopping to render the horn plastic. How TO TREAT CouGHS IN HoRSEs. — Crush the Otis, damp the ha}^, give gruel or flax seed tea for drink, clothe warmly, and give three times a day half a pint of the following mix- ture in a tumblerful of water; extract belladonna one drachm, rubbed down graduall}' in a pint of cold water until dis- solved, then add tincture of squills ten ounces, tincture of ipecac eight ounces. EiNG-BONE, ITS TREATMENT. — In the first stages, apply poultices with one drachm each camphor and powered opi- um; afterward rub with an ointment of iodine and lead one ounce, simple ointment eight ounces (well mixed;) continue the treatment two weeks after all active sj^mptoms have subsided; allow liberal food and rest. Hide-bound, how Treated. — Plenty of food, clean, soft bedding, healthy exercise, and good grooming; administer daily tvvo drinks, composed of liquor arsenicalis half ounce, tincture muriate iron one ounce, water one pint; mix, and give at one dose. Eemedy for SoRiE Tongue in Horses. — Take one part su- gar of lead, one part bole amonia, and two parts burnt alum, the whole to be added to three quarts of vinegar. With this wash out the mouth twice a day. Eemedy for Strain in Horses. — Take whisky, one half pint; camphor, one ounce; sharp vinegar, ong pint. Mix. Use for bathing. Slobbers in Horses. — An infallible, simple, and cheap remedy is a dose or two of from one to two gallons of wheat bran. 46 THE Ht)RSE AND HIS DISEASES. General Inflamation of the Eye. — Introduce into the eye, two or three times a day, the following lotion: Ex- tract goulard, two drachms, spiritous tincture digitalis, two drachms; tincture opium, two drachms; water, one pint. Two or three drops at a time will suffice. Cramp in horses arises from irregular action of the motor nerves. Rubbing the affected parts with a wisp of bay for ten minutes would be beneficial; and should friction alone not remove the tendency to cramp, the parts affected should be rubbed occasionally with a solution of camphor and olive oil. To Keep Flies prom Horses. — Take of green leaves of the shagbark hickory, (Car3^a Alba) quantum suff.; bruise in hot water, let cool, and strain, and sponge the most exposed parts before the horse leaves the stable, 1 have found this perfectly effectual in preventing horse flies, common flies, gre^heads, and rausquetoes from troubling horses, for three or four hours after application. For Distemper. — Bleed in the neck vein, taking about three pints of blood, then give the following: Take one table- spoonful of gunpowder, one of hogs lard, one of soft soap, two of tar, and one of pulverized gum myrrh. Mix thorougly. Put a spoonful of this down his throat as far as you can reach with a paddle or spoon, twice a day. The object is not so much to have him swallow it as it is to have it lodge about the glands of the throat. Ko danger is to be apprehended from using it freely. Corosive Liniment. — Take half a pint of turpentine, one ounce of finely powdered corosive sublimate, one ounce gum camphor; shake well, and let stand twenty-four hours, when it will be ready for use. This liniment will cure big-head and big-jaw,*grea8e, thrush, scratches, swelled legs, hoof rot, foot evil, corns, ulceration of the foot, fistula, poll evil, ring- bone, acd spavin, in their first stages. Cure for Colic in Horses. — We have found the following receipt very effectual in curing colic: Take as much bread THE HORSE AXD HIS DISKIRKS. 47 eoda as will dissolve in a pint of water — say a teacupfull; put in a strong bottle with a long neck; pour in the water, warm water is best, shake well, and add one ounce of laudanum, one ounce essence ginger, and one ounce chloroform; shake well and drench. The eoda alone is very good. Colic is produced by acidity and distension of the bowels. This dis- tension in one place causes contraction in another and en- tirely locks up the bowels. You want to administer a reme- dy that will correct the acidity and relax the bowels. Ji^oth- ing is better, we think, than the above combination, and we would advise all persons who have horses to keep a bottle on hand ready for use. This is also a sure remedy for bots. Scratches in Horses. — Mix white lead and linseed oil in such proportions as will render the application convenient, and 1 never have known more than two or three applica- tions necessary to effect a cure. Receipts for the Cure of Diseases in Horses, The following are receipts that 1 have obtained from an old English gentleman at a cost of $100. For Big Head or Jaw. — Take half a pint of turpentine, one ounce of camphor, one ounce of sublimate; mix and let etand for a day and it is fit for use. Use about one table- spoonful on each side of the head or jaw; bathe the parts well with a hot iron. Do this once a day until you use all the medicine, and at the same time commence giving sul- phur, about one fourth of a pound to a dose, until you give two or three pounds; do this every four or five days; bleed moderately every sixth day for five or six times, and keep your horse out of wet weather while doctoring him. This medicine is poison. For Poll Evil — Use about the same quantity of the same medicine, always washing the sore well, if broke, with warm water and soap. Before applying the medicine bleed some three or four times, and give some three or four doses of sulphur, always bathing it with a hot iron. For Bone, Bog, or Blood Spavin — Make use of the same receipt and same quantity. Omit the sulphur and bleeding, but bathe well, especially for bone spavin. 48 THE HORSE AND HIS DlSKASEi?. For Foot Evil — Yoa will use the same medicine, omitting the bathing; keep them out of wet weather or dew, and give three or four doses of sulphur, and bleed two or three times. For Eing Bone — Use the same medicine and bathe the part well, omitting the sulphur and bleeding. For Splint vSaddle Galls or any hard bony substance, aris- ing from kicks, blows, or sprains, use the same medicine, omitting the bleeding and sulphur, but bathe well. For Big Shoulder — Take one pint of French brandy and as mach aquefortice, as will make it sour so as to bite the tongue, then add one ounce of blue stone, one ounce of corosive subli- mate, one ounce of camphor, two vials of oil of spike, one and a half gill of turpentine. Mix them all together, and take a hair brush and rub it in, do this three or four times, always bathing it well with a hot iron, do this everj' other day; bleed twoor three times and give three or four doses of sulphur; and keep them out of bad weather. For Weak or Inflamed Eyes— Take ten grains of calomel, two grains of red precipitate; mix it well and add to this quantity one teaspoonfull of fresh butter. Mix it well and pui a small quantity in the eye witu a feather once a day, using a wash at the same time, made by adding one half once of lodanum to one pint of water. Bleed some two or three times in eight or ton days. For Fistula — Take one pint of strong spirits and as much soap as will dissolve in it while boiling. As soon as it boits pour it on the sore, do this for four mornings. Bleed the 1st, 5th, and 10th morning; or else take one pint of turpentine, one vial of oil of spike, mix this and let it boil and pour it on the sore; use this quantity three mornings in succession and bleed ae above directed. For Founder— As quick as you find your horse is foun- dered, bleed him in the neck in proportion to the greatness of the founder, then r»raw his head up and give him one pint of salt added to one quart of water strained, then wet the edge of his hoofs with turpentine. THE HORSK AN D HIS DISEASES. 49 For Glanders — Make a strong decoction of tobacco boiled, weaken it according to the symptoms, add one-third pint of this to one pint of water and give the quantity every third day. Give your horse a quarter pound of sulphur every fourth or fifth morning until you use two or three pounds. Bleed once a week for three or four weeks, at the same time make a week tea of burdock, yellow poplar and sassaparilla, and let them be his constant drink. For Botts — Take one pint of new milk, one pint of molas- ses, and drench your horse. In some twenty minutes give 3"our horse one quart of sage tea as warm as he can drink it, in two or three hours give your horse one pint of linseed oil. For Colic — In the first place you will bleed your horse frejl}', then get one half ounce of lodanura, one gill ot whisk}', three spoonfuls of turpentine, put them in a pint bot- tle and fill it with warm water and then drench your horse. For Stifle— Take one half pound shomake bark, one half pound white oak bark, boil in two gallons of water down to two pints, bathe with the ooze twice a day for four days, then make a salve of the white of an egg and an ounce "^of rosin. Bathe in with a hot iron twice a week for two weeks. For Hooks — Give half a pound of salts daily for three or four days. Bleed three or four times lightly in eigth or ten days, liest your horse and feed no corn. Founder in Horses. I send you a receipt for founder in horses. It is a sure and speedy remed}-. Take a spoon- ful of pulverized alum, pull the horses tongue out of his mouth as far as possible, and throw the alum down his throat; let go of hift tongue and hold up his head until he swallows. In six hours time no matter how bad the founder, he will be fit for moderate service. I have seen this remedy tested so often with perfect success, that I would not make five dollars difference in a horse foundered if done recently and one that was net. To GET Horses out op a Fire. — A gentleman whose horses had been in great peril by fire, having in vain tried to save . 50 THE HORSE AND HIS DISEASES. them, hit upon the experiment of having them harnessed, as though they were going to their usual work, vvhenj to his astonishment, they were led from the stable without diflScul- ly. The plan of covering their eyes with a blanket does not always succeed. The End of the Horse. When the horse falls, he is bled, and his blood is pre- served for the use of the dyer. The mane and tail are next cut off for the manufacture of sieves, hair cloths, and bow strings for the violinj the shoes are taken off for the nailer; the hoofs are cut off for combs and various other kinds of horn-work, and a portion of the feet goes to the glue-maker; the skin is stripped off for the tanner, who converts it into excellent leather for boots, harness, etc., and the collar ma- ker finds it, in its rough state, the best material for cart har- ness. The flesh is then cut up for carniverous beasts in menageries, or for dogs, and, though without knowing that they are hippophagi, (a club of horse-eaters, who regularly advertise their club da3'S,) some of our fellow citizens are regaled in the cheap eating houses of great cities with deli- cate bits of carcass in the form of pates, pretended beef-steaks or soup. When the flesh and fat have been removed, the stomache and intestines are laid aside for machine straps and strings for musical instruments, and are often sold, for the last purpose, as the best Naples cords; the ribs are turned into buttons and children's toys; the large bones are used for tweezers, whistles, ferules, knife handles, cups and balls, dominoes, etc.; the large, flat bones are of use to the toy men for many things; even the teeth are useful, when polished, to the dentist, and for many purposes for which ivory is required. The bones of the head are either consumed in heating furna- ces or crushed for manure. The remainder of the carcass is burnt, and by this process produces ivory-black, soot-black, and valuable manure. And from the fat is extracted a course oil which is used by mechanics. Ho%v to Cure Hog Cholera. Nearly everybody has a remedy for hog cholera but very few remedies are successful; as a general thing a great deal MISCELLAXKOU8. 5] depends on how hogs are fed. 1 am informed by an old far- mer, who has been very succesful in raising hogs and that he finds that the best thing to prevent it, is by keeping in the pen, where the hogs can run to and eat of, a box or trough of mixture made as follows: Three bushels of slacked ashes one bushel of lime, one peck of salt; mix all well together.' The above mixture should be kept in the pen so that the hogs may run to it any time. I do not think you will ever be bothered with worms in j-ou hogs or hog cholera. Soft soap and soda, mix and give to hogs when sick with chol- era; it never fails to cure. A gentleman informs us that he has cured more hogs with the above, when they were so sick that they could not eat anything, and he had to catch them and pour it down their throat. To Curb Blind Staggers in Hogs.— Put about a spoonful of coal oil in the hogs ears two days in succession; and, also put a little coal oil on its head, and it will be all right in a short time. Miscellaneous Receipts. Preservation of Milk and Cream.— Put the milk into bottles, then place them into a sauce pan with cold water and gradually raise to a boiling point; take it from the fire' ana instantly cork the bottles, then raise the milk once more to the boiling point for half a minute. Finally let the bottles cool in the water in which they were boiled. Milk thus treated will remain perfectly good for six months. Emmi- grants, especially those having children, will find the above hint add much to their comfort during their voj'age. Ho^v 1 Make Cider Vinegar.- I put my cider in barrels and let it work until it becomes thoroughlv hard. Then, im- mediately after the new of the moon, I empty my barrels in- to tubs and let the cider settle, rinsing out my barrels clean When the sediment has sufliciently settled l^put the clear cider back into the barrels, if any mother had been formed this is also put back. If there is no mother, in order to to cause it to form; I roll up a piece of writing paper and put this into the barrel. I then add to each barrel three gallons of clear rain water, sweetened somewhat sweeter than sugar water, and the bung holes left open. 52 TO PATRONS. To Patrons • In conclusion, I desire to impress upon the minds of the public, the importance and value of this work by earnestly requesting that its pages may be carefully perused, and the receipts as given, farely tested by every familyj it gives all the most reliable household remedies, remedies that no family should be without; by its instruction akl may become their own physician to a certain extent; the remedies that I have given for all the complaints which every family is subject to, are invaluable, and no household should ever be found without them, for by their presence a good deal of suffering and many a dollar can be saved, and some times life, especially in such cases as Cholera, Cholera Infantum, Croup, etc. Al- so my treaties on the horse and his diseases, will be invaluable to all who deal in or handle horses. This I know from prac- tical experience. I give several receipts that are worth from ten tofifty times the worth of this book, which will be ac- knowledged by all who will test their merits; by so doing the value of this small work may be fully appreciated. To such persons as Tnay desire to engage in the sale of this work, either male or female, I offer very liberal induce- ments. Specxai terms furnished on application. Agents wanted in every town and county in the United States. This work will bo mailed free to any address on receipt of price; One Dollar. Address • T. J. CHRISTY, Olney 111. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 184 188 9 • f)(0 014 184 188 9