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If obstinate, diluted muriatic acid, javelle water, or 

 sulphur fumes are good. 



Meat Juice. Hot water will set the stain. Soak in cold 

 water, wash in suds of cold water, and rinse in cold 

 water. 



Paint Spots. Equal parts of ammonia and turpentine 

 will remove paint stains of long standing. 



Tea, Coffee, or Cocoa. Wash in cold water, cover with 

 ^dycerine, and let stand two or three hours; wash with 

 I'old water and hard soap. If stains are fresh, pour 

 l)oiling water through from a height after soaking. 



Perspiration. Soak in cold water, wash with borax, 

 and expose garment to sunshine. Stains under the arms 

 require an acid, such as a weak solution of muriatic acid. 



Burned Cooking Utensils. To clean granite ware where 

 mixtures have been burned on. Half fill with cold water, 

 adding any good soap or washing powder; heat water 

 gradually to the boiling point. 



INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES 

 For Biting Insects — Poisons. 



1. Arsenate of Lead. 



Arsenate of lead 2 to 3 pounds 



Water, or Bordeaux, or lime-sulphur 50 gallons 



Arsenate of lead is found on the market both as a pow- 

 der and as a putty-like paste. The paste must be worked 

 free in water before it is added to the lime-sulphur "mix- 

 ture or to the Bordeaux mixture. The paste form of the 

 poison is used at the rate of two or three pounds to each 

 fifty gallons of the liquid and is added to it after it has 

 been well dissolved in water. 



