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INCOMBUSTIBLE WASH. 



Slack stone lime in a large tub or barrel with boiling 

 water, covering the tub or barrel, to keep in all the steam. 

 When thus slacked, pass six quarts of it through a fine 

 sieve. It will then be in a state of fine flour. Now, to 

 six quarts of this lime, add one quart of rock or Turk's 

 Island salt, and one gallon of water; then boil the mix- 

 ture arid skim it clean. To every five gallons of this 

 skimmed mixture, add one pound of alum, half a pound 

 of copperas, by slow degrees add three-fourths of a pound 

 of potash, and four quarts of fine sand or hickory ashes, 

 sifted. We suppose any kind of good hard wood ashes 

 will answer as well as hickory. This mixture will now 

 admit of any coloring matter you please, and may be ap- 

 plied with a brush. It looks better than paint, and is as 

 durable as slate. It will stop small leaks in the roof, 

 prevent the moss from growing over and rotting the wood, 

 and render it incombustible from sparks falling upon it. 

 When laid upon brick work, it renders the brick imper- 

 vious to rain or wet. 



PRICE OF LARD, PORK, ETC., SHOWING THE VALUE O* 

 SWINE TO THE FARMER. 



It may not be unacceptable a to the producer to learn the 

 value of his commodity in the market of exportation. 



A New-Orleans price current of January 7th, 1843, 

 quotes lard at six and a quarter cents, and hams at seven 

 cents. The question arises, what is pork worth to the 

 farmer on the western waters, where the shipment to 

 New-Orleans is estimated at seventy-five cents per bar- 

 rel? 



A fat hog, weighing three hundred pounds, will furnish 

 two hams weighing, together, about forty-two pounds, 

 leaving two hundred and fifty-eight pounds of pork. If 



