PRACTICAL FARMER. 



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Slake your lime as before directed, say six quarts, 

 into which put one quart of clean rock salt for 

 each gallon of water, to be dissolved by boiling, 

 and skimmed clean ; then add to the 5 gallons one 

 pound of alum, half a pound of copperas, three 

 fourths of a pound of potash, the last to be grad- 

 ually added, four quarts of fine sand or hard wood 

 ashes, say hickory. You may add any coloring 

 matter that your taste may dictate. It should be 

 put on with a painter's brush ; it will it is said 

 look better than paint, and be as lasting as slate ; 

 will stop the small leaks, prevent the moss from 

 growing, and render the part painted with it in- 

 combustible. 



Second. To make a brilliant stucco white wash. 

 Take clean lumps of well burnt stone lime (oyster 

 shell lime will do as well), slake as before direct- 

 ed ; add one fourth pound of whiting or burnt 

 alum pulverized, 1 lb. of sugar, 3 pints of rice 

 flour made into a thin and very well bodied paste, 

 1 lb. of clean glue, dissolved by simmering over n 

 slow fire. It is more brilliant than plaster of 

 Paris, and will last for fifty years. It should be 

 put on warm. 



Cheap while Paint. 

 One pound of unslaked lime, 1 lb. Spanish 

 whiting, 1 gallon of sweet milk, 1 gallon fl ax seed 

 oil, 1 tablespoonfull of salt. Pour onth e lime 

 sufficient water to slake it, and while the lime is 

 slaking, pour in the oil so as to cook it thin, add 

 the whiting and salt, then pour on the milk and 

 superior. 



Preserving an Apple Tree. — The following 

 novel mode of preserving the life of an ajiple tree, 

 was tried last season by Mr Mandell, of Barre, 

 and the tree this year bears abundantly. 



"The bark was eaten off from the body of the 

 tree entirely around, for the space of two feet or 

 more, as clean as if it had been scraped ; he 

 removed the uneven and jagged portions up to a 

 uniform ring ; then took young shoots, and sharp- 

 ening them at both ends, inserted them at each 

 end into the bark to act as conductors of the sap, 

 and covered the whole over with moist and rich 

 earth to the height of a foot or two above where 

 the bark was eaten off; the scions took root at 

 both ends, and acted as conductors for the sap. 

 On that side where the sticks were placed thick, 

 the tree was entirely restored, the other side, 

 where they are fewer, is partially decaying." — 

 Barre Gaz. 



Two centuries after the worship of the gods of 

 mythology was questioned at Athens, Cicero first 

 ventured at Rome, in a philosophic way, to break 

 up their altars in the " Eternal City." 



Receipt for making cold Soap The leach 



tub or hogshead must be covered at the bottom 

 with straw and sticks — then put in a bushel of 

 ashes, then two or three quarts of unslacked lime, 

 upon which you must throw two quarts of boiling 

 water to excite fermentation and slack the lime ; 

 put in another bushel of ashes and as much more 

 lime and water, and continue to do so until your 

 vessel is full ; put in hot water till you can draw 

 off the lye, after which the heat of the water is 

 not of much consequence. You must have, at 

 least, two thirds of a bushel of lime to a hogs- 

 head, if you wish your soap to be made quick ; 

 one hogshead of ashes will make two barrels of 

 soap. When you draw off your lye yon must 

 kee]) your first two pailfuls by themselves, and the 

 next two in another vessel, and the third two in 

 another vessel still : then weigh 29 pounds of 

 clear, strained grease, or of scraps, without strain- 

 ing, 32 pounds, put into a kettle with three pounds 

 of rosin ; then pour over it one pailful of lye from 

 the first drawn vessel, and one from the second 

 drawn vessel ; put it over the fire, and let it boil 

 twenty minutes — be particular to add no lye 

 over the fire, but swing off the crane if it is in 

 danger of boiling over ; put it into your barrel, 

 and add one pailful of lye from the third drawn 

 vessel, and give it a thorough stirring ; then weigh 

 your grease for another barrel, and take the lye 

 remaining in the vessels, in the same manner as 

 for the first barrel ; then draw off your weak lye, 

 and fill up the vessels as fast as possible, remem- 

 bering to put half to each barrel, that they may 

 be equally strong; if your leach run through fast, 

 you may have your barrels full in an hour, and so 

 hard that you can hardly stir them. You must 

 stir it after you begin to |)ut in your lye, till your 

 barr^ is full. Fourteen quarts of melted grease 

 is the quantity for a barrel. 



[Many families in this town make their soap 

 according to the foregoing with perfect success.] 

 — Hamp. Gaz. 



Beet Sugar. — A bcautifid specimen of sugar 

 manufactured in France from the beet, was exhi- 

 bited at the Philadelphia Exchange recently. — 

 The lot was purchased in Havre at 9 1-2 cents a 

 ])Ound, and was brought out by a number of gen- 

 tlemen of Pliil.idelphia, who sent an agent to pro- 

 cure all the necessary information relative to the 

 process of manufactin-ing sugar from beet in 

 France, where it is so extensively carried on as to 

 excite great discontent among the planters of the 

 French colonies. 



A great man once remarked, " I have had long 

 experience, and I never knew a rogue happy." 



