(3 FAMILY RECEIPTS. 



TO PRESERVE BEES FROM WORMS AND BUTTERFLIES. 



About the first of May, raise the hive up, and strew 

 some fine salt under the edge. This will drive those 

 insects away. 



TO PURIFY TALLOW FOR CANDLES. 



Take 5-8 of tallow, and 3-8 of mutton suet; melt 

 them in a copper chaldron, with it mix 8 ounces of 

 brandy, one of salt of tartar, one of sal ammoniac, two 

 of dry potash. Throw the mixture into the chaldron, 

 make the ingredients boil a quarter of an hour, then set 

 the whole to cool. Next day the tallow will be found 

 on the surface of the water in a pure cake. Take it 

 out and expose it to the air for some days on canvass, 

 [t will become white and almost as hard as wax. The 

 iew is favorable to its bleaching. Make your wicks of 

 ine even cotton; give them a coat of melted wax, then 

 -:ast your mould candles. They will have the appear- 

 '>*nce of wax in a degree, and one of them (six to a 

 pound) will burn fourteen hours and not run. 



BARLEY, TO INCREASE. 



To increase a crop of barley, dissolve three pounds 

 «?f copperas in a pail of boiling water. Add to this as 

 much dung puddle water as will cover three or foui 

 bushels of barley. Stir it, and let it steep four and 

 twenty hours; when the seed is drained and spread, sift 

 on fine lime, which fits it for sowing. Steeping the seed 

 about twenty-four hours in the wash of a dunghill, 

 without any mixture, is said to produce a very good effect. 



TO DESTROY ANTS. 



The farmer, when he manures his land, if he will use 

 ashes, lime, salt or sand, will not be troubled with those 

 insects. Dr. Rees' Cyclopaedia recommends boiling 

 rain water with black soap and sulphur, and saturating 

 the ground with it, which is infested with ants. 



