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SILK MANUAL, AND 



he used the Mansfield Coal in liis Cabin Stoves, 

 during a recent pfissage from Providence to New 

 York, and that he found it equal in all resp(;cts 

 to the best Pennsylvania Coal. A certificate to 

 the same effect was signed by the passengers and 

 published. 



Soon, 'Peach Orchard,' 'Broad Mountain,' 

 ' Lackavvana,' ' Sciiuylkill,' ' Lehigh,' 'Diamond 

 Vein,' &c. &c., will be known only as things that 

 were; and 'Mansfield Harding Vein,' will be the 

 caption used by advertising friends, in order to 

 make sale of remnant lots of Pennsylvania Coals. 



With the compliments of the season, accept my 

 sincere wishes for your future usefulness, comfort 

 and prosperity. 



Mansfield, Jan. 1, 1837. 



WHITE WASH. 



As the citizens of our village have, much to 

 their credit, turned their attention to [)aintingand 

 white- washing the outside of their buildings, we 

 insert the following in hopes something may be 

 drawn from it to their advantage on the score of 

 utility and economy. 



Incomhusiible Wash and siucro White Wash. — 

 The basis for both is lime, wiiich must first be 

 slacked with hot water, in a small tub or piggin, 

 and covered, ta keer) in the steam ; it then should 

 be passed in a fluid form, through n fine seive, to 

 oiitain tlie flour of the lime, it must be |uit on 

 with a painter's brush, — two coats are best for 

 outside work. 



First. — To make a fluid for the roof, and other' 

 parts of wooden houses, to render them iucorn- 

 bustible, and coating for brick, tile, stone work 

 and rough cast, to render them impervious to the 

 water and give them a durable and handsome ap- 

 pearance. 



The proportion in each reci[)e 5 gallons. 



S .ick your lime as before directed, say 6 quarts 

 into which put one quart of clean rock salt i'or 

 each gallon of vvater, to be entirely dissolved by 

 boiling and skimmed clean ; then add to the five 

 gallons one pound ot alum, half a pound of coj)- 

 peras, and three-fourths of a pound of jjotash — 

 the last to be gradually added ; four quarts of fine 

 sand or hard wood ashes must also be added, and 

 coloring matter may be .nixed in :>uch quantity as 

 to give it the requisite shade. It will lo(dv better 

 than paint and tie as lasting as slate. It nmst be 

 put on hot. Old shingles must be first cleaned 

 with a stiff broom, when this may be applied. It 

 wiil stop the small leaks, prevent moss from grow- 

 ing, render them incondmstible, and last many 

 years. 



Second. To make brilliant stucco white wash 

 for buildings, inside and out. Take cleam lumps 

 of well burnt stone lime ; slack tiie same as be 

 fore ; add one fourth of a pound of whiting or 

 burnt alum pulverized, one pound of loaf or oth- 



er sugar, three pints of rice flour, made into a 

 very thin and well boiled paste, starch or jelly, 

 and one pound clean glue, dissolved in the same 

 manner as cabinet makers do. This may be ap- 

 plied cold within doors, but warm outside. It 

 will be more brilliant than plaster of paris, and 

 retains its brilliancy for many years, say from fif- 

 ty to one hundred. It is superior, nothing equal. 

 The east end of the President's house, in VVash- 

 ingion, is washed with it. — Ohio Far' 



Washi^'o Sheep. — Bartholomew Nelson, Esq. 

 late of Augusta, now of Hallowell, remarkable for 

 his plain, practical common sense, observed in 

 conversation, that he thought he had made quite 

 an improvement in his mofle of washing sheep. 



Having a stream in his pasture, where he could 

 raise a small head of water, he made a plank box, 

 eight feet long, four feet wide, and three and a 

 lialf high, just below his dam, from which he 

 conducted a stream of vvater into his box, sufli- 

 cient to keep it full and running over at the low- 

 er end, besides a constant discharge from the bot- 

 tom of the box through a two inch auger hole, to 

 let off the sediment. This box or vat, he con- 

 sidered of fair size for four men to work at, stand- 

 mg on the outside, dry, while they washed their 

 sheep, and then returned them to the flock in the 

 yard, made of suitable size for the number of 

 sheep to be washed. He thought this cheap es- 

 tablishment increased the comfort of his laborers, 

 compared to wading into the water, and also that 

 they could wash faster and cleaner, without bend- 

 ing so much, or exposing their clothes to be rent. 



A number of neighbors might join in preparing 

 such a convenient concern, where they could find 

 suitable water; or one could build, and then rent 

 the accommodation, if he chose. Considering 

 this information too good to be lost, and it being 

 a good season to prijvide the little lumber nec- 

 essary, I thought I would relate it as recollect- 

 ed. 



I think he stated that 3 or 4 men completed the 

 wliole concern in half a day. — Bangor Mechanic 

 and Farmer. 



Brown Bread. — A writer in the Greenfield 

 Mercury recommends the use of rye meal with- 

 out sifting or separating the bran, for brown bread. 

 He says the bread will be very dark — almost 

 black — but, if mixed with the due proportion of 

 Indian meal, and properly made, exceedingly 

 sweet and palatable. We have no doubt that such 

 bread would be found not only more palatable, 

 but more economical and more wholesome than 

 when the rye is bolted or sifted. There are some 

 portions of New England, where the good house- 

 wives always make it in that way, and better bread 

 is no where made or eaten. 



