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SMALL BEER. 
Boil one ounce of hops, one ounce ginger and two quaris- 
molasses in two gallons water, strain and keg it, and when 
blood warm put in your yeast. 
ANOTHER, 
Take one ounce ginger and three pints molasses to uix. perk 
lons warm water, put them all together, shake them ones —_ 
in six or eight hours it will be fit for use, 
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TO PREVENT BLACK FLIES FROM DESTROYING GARDENS. 
Plant buckwheat among your other seeds, and let it stand 
till the plants are out of their way. 
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TO PRESERVE CUCUMBERS AND SQUASHES om FS 
AND WORMS. 
Make a strong tea of hops and elder leaves, and mix a lit- 
tle flour and mpierain the plants. 
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‘0 DESTROY CUT WORMS AND HESHIAN FLIES. 
Take the water that you boil potatoes i in and sprinkle your 
grain and plants. It destroys insects from the egg to the fy. 
TO KEEP INSECTS FROM CUCUMBERS AND SQU ASHES. 
‘Sprinkle them with weak hen dung water; or wet a quill 
riers greenest , 
_ TO DESTROY CATERPILLARS ON FRUIT TREES, 
Smoke them well with sulphur, pitch or rosin, and it will 
_ destroy them on herbs and flowers. 
