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office, and requested us to promulgate the following 

 recipe for the benefit of those farmers who supply our 

 market with butter. — He was led to make the su^ores- 

 tion in consequence of having noticed that our butter 

 made after the cattle are put to hay, is almost univer- 

 sally white. He says that in his country the dairy 

 women avoid this by grating some orange carrots, the 

 juice of which, after being strained, is mixed with the 

 cream previous to churning. Butter thus manufac- 

 tured acquires not only a beautiful yellow colour, but 

 a flavour which adds greatly to its value. The quan- 

 tity of carrot juice necessary to be used for this pur- 

 pose may easily be ascertained : indeed the judgment 

 of the manufacturer cannot fail to suggest very 

 nearly the quantity necessary to give a proper colour. 



Art of dressing Flax so as to resemble Silk, as praC' 

 ticed in Germany. 



Take one part of lime, and between two and three 

 parts of wood-ashes ; pour over them a due proportion 

 of water to make a strong and sharp lie after they 

 have stood together all night, which must be poured 

 off' when quite clear. Tie handfulls of flax at both 

 ends, to prevent its entangling, but let the middle of 

 each be spread as open as possible, in a kettle, on the 

 bottom of which has first been placed a little straw 

 with a cloth over it. 



Then put another cloth over the flax, and so con- 

 tinue covering each layer of flax with a cloth till the 

 kettle be nearly full. Pour over the whole the* clear 

 lie, and after boiling it for some hours take it out, and 

 throw it in cold water. This boiling, &c. may be re- 

 peated, if judged requisite. 



The flax must be each time dried, hackled, beaten, 



