5l8 STANDARD RECEIPTS. 



blot or ink mark, gently rubbing till the ink is solved; blot the paper; 

 then apply in the same way with a separate rod a little of the chloride of 

 lime solution; then a little more of the acid; blot; repeat if necessary. 



Golden Healer. Melt eight ounces yellow beeswax with one pound 

 lard, over hot water, and then stir in one ounce camphor gum, till it is 

 dissolved, cool till the hand can be borne on pan, and then thoroughly 

 stir in one ounce oil organum, and one ounce laudanum , till all is free 

 from lumps. Keep in covered tin boxes. This makes a very soothing 

 application for wounds and burns. 



To Prepare and Pickle Tripe. First turn the "ponch" inside 

 out, then sew it up tight, so that no lime can get into it. Have a tub 

 of lime-water as thick as good thick white-wash; let it remain in this 

 from ten to twenty minutes, or until the dark outside skin will come off; 

 then put it into clean water, changing three or four times to weaken the 

 lime, so that the hands will not be injured by it; then with a dull knife 

 scrape off all of the dull surface, and continue to soak and scrape several 

 times, which will remove all offensive substances and smell. After this, 

 let it soak twenty or thirty minutes in two or three hot waters, scraping 

 over each time; then pickle in salt and water twelve hours, and it is 

 ready for cooking; boil from three to four hours, cut in strips to suit, 

 and put it into nice vinegar with the various spices, as desired; renew 

 the vinegar at the expiration of one week, and when thoroughly pickled 

 it is ready for use. 



Grinding Tools. More than one-half of the wear and tear, and 

 breakage ana bother of dull tools comes from a lack of proper knowledge 

 and practice in grinding. All fine steel is composed of individual fibres 

 laid lengthwise in the bar, held firmly together by cohesion; and in 

 almost all farm implements of the cutting kind the steel portion which 

 forms the edge, if from a section of a bar, is laid in welded to the bar 

 lengthwise, so that it is the side of the bundle of fibres hammered and 

 ground down that forms the edge. Hence, by holding on the grind- 

 stone all edge-tools, as axes, drawing-knives, knives of reapers, scythes, 

 knives of straw-cutters, etc. , in such a manner that the action of the 

 stone is at right angles with the plane of the edge, or, in plainer 

 words, hold the edge of the tools square across the stone, and the 

 sides will be ground so as to present the ends instead of the side as a 

 cutting edge. By grinding in this manner a finer, smoother edge is set, 

 the tool is ground in less time, holds on edge much longer, and is lesg 

 liable to nick out or break. 



