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holes ; and then so clo?e'y coverod 

 that no air can come to it. If all 

 this is done, he thinks the but- 

 ter may be kept perfectly sound 

 and good for many years. For he 

 has seen it at two years old, in 

 every respect as sweet and sound 

 as when oidy a month old. 



The following receipt for pick 

 hue beef has been highly recom- 

 mer ;ed. 



For an hundred pounds of beef, 

 take sixteen pounds of bay or fine 

 salt, two pounds brown sugar, four 

 and an half gallons water, and six 

 ounces salt petre. 



The salt, sugar, and water should 

 be put into a brass or copper ket- 

 tle over a fire. Stir the salt often, 

 and continue stirring it until the 

 salt has ail dissolved, and thi^scum 

 has done rising. Take off the 

 scum as it rises. After this add 

 the saltpetre. Let the pickle 

 stand till it is about cold, or blood 

 warm. Have the beef cut in 

 smallish pieces, and packed pretty 

 close, free from any bloody pieces. 

 Add the pickle and cover it tight 

 from the air. Should there be any 

 appearance of mould on the sur- 

 face of the pickle, at any time, add 

 a handful or two of fresh salt. 



SAND, is described as a genus 

 of fossils, found in minute concre- 

 tions, forming together a kind of 

 powder, the genuine particles of 

 which are all of a tendency to one 

 particular shape, and appear regu- 

 lar, though more or less complete, 

 concretions ; not to be dissolved, 

 or disunited by water, or forming 

 into a coherent inass by it, but re- 

 taining thf-iir figure in it : transpa- 

 rent, vitrifiaDle by extreme heat, 



and not dissoluble in, or efferves- 

 cn.g with acids. 



" These are subject to be vari- 

 ously blended and intermixed,pither 

 with homogene or heterogene par- 

 ticles, particularly with flakes of 

 talc ; and, according to these, and 

 their different colours, are to be 

 subdivided into different kinds, as 

 red, white, &ic. 



" As to sand, its use is to make 

 the clayey earth fertile, and fit to 

 feed vegetables : For such earth 

 alone, we find, is liable to coalesce, 

 and gather into a hard coherent 

 mass, as is apparent in mere clay. 

 The earth thus embodied, and as it 

 were, glued together, is no ways 

 disposed to nourish vegetables. 

 But if with such earth, a sufficient 

 quantity of sand be intermixed, it 

 will keep the pores of the earth 

 open, and the earth itself loose and 

 incompact ; and by that means 

 give room for the juices to ascend, 

 and for plants to be nourished 

 thereby. 



" Thus a vegetable, planted, ei- 

 ther in sand alone, or in a fat 

 glebe, or earth alone, receives no 

 growth or increment at all, but is 

 either starved or suffocated : But 

 mix the two, and the mass becomes 

 fertile. In effect, by means of 

 sand, the earth is rendered, in 

 some manner, organical : Pores 

 and interstices being hereby main- 

 tained, something analogous to 

 vessels, by which the juices may 

 be conveyed, prepared, digested, 

 circulated, and at length ex< erned, 

 and thrown off into the roots of 

 plants. 



"Grounds that are sandy and 

 gravelly, easily admit both heat 



