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For 100 lbs. of wool, take four gallons of urine and eight gallons of rain- 

 water; mix and lieat a little above blood-heat, until the scum rises, which 

 skim ofl". Keep it at tlie same heat in a kettle on coals or a little tiro out of 

 doors. Put in what wool the kettle will conveniently hold, and let it remain 

 about five minutes ; take it otit on a board that will drain the liquid back 

 into the kettle, or else put it in a basket over a tub, so as not waste the liquid, 

 for it will be equally good for the last batch as the first. "When it is drained, 

 put the basket under a stream of water running on it if convenient, or in a 

 running stream if you can, or else with plenty of clear water in a large tulj; 

 it will wash very easily, and be as •• wliite as wool." 



Don't forget to sprinkle the dirty liquid upon the poorest spot in the gar- 

 den, for it is a powerful manure. 



The same kind of liquid is the best thing known to take the dirt and 

 grease out of any kind of foul woolen clothes or yarn. 



SECTION' VIII.-IIORSES AXD MULES. 



GENERAL history of the horse and his uses, and 

 how to use him, will not be looked for in a work 

 that only professes to give little items of informa- 

 tion upon a great many things. It would occu]iy 

 a volume larger than this one to give a tolcrabl}- 

 full history of the equine race, since it has been sub- 

 :'ted to the use of man. 



J^'juns is the generic name of the quadrupeds which 

 have a single digit and hoof upon each foot, as hal* 

 the horse, ass, zebra. The horse has been a domestic 

 as well as a wild animal from a very early time. He 

 is mentioned in Genesis as being in harness when 

 Joseph transferred the remains of his father from 

 Egypt to Canaan. 



Horses exist in a wild state in various parts of the 

 globe. They were once quite numerous in tiie territory embraced in some 

 of our most western States. Domestication works material change, the most 

 marked of which is an increase in the size of the trunk. Then follows an 

 increased size of all j)arts, and a loss of the fleetness natural to the horse in 

 his wild state. 



The Arabian liorsc, though domesticated by a semi-savage race, still re- 

 tains some of his wild charafcteristics, one of which is lleetness and long 

 endurance. The Arab tradition in regard to the horse is, " that ho was 

 created out of the wind, as Adam was out of the earth." Ilence, " fleet as 

 tiie wind," is often applied to the horse. The tradition is, that the male of 

 the liorsc wa.s created first, as the more noble of the two, and that the horse 



