OIL. 
in it; and as malt coombs are a manure of themfelves, efpe- 
uck. The fand a 
cafion . to imbibe the sil more 
aton or even aton and a 
grow for three or four year: 
very fertile. The reafon i “hall not oe vpon bmi to 
give, but he has found it fo by his own exper he 
writer concludes by obferving, that fome farmers <n ufed 
only half the above quantity fer acre, notwithftanding which 
they had good crops. But it has been obferved that the 
extra expence makes againft its becoming generally ufeful 
from the great price of oil, and the expence of the carriage 
of fea = and drofs falt, in moft inland fituations. See 
O1L-Com 
Ou Pant, in Rural Economy, raat fort of paint which 
is compofed of oil, and the oxy lead, or fome other 
fimilar fubftance, to form its a, or give it a body, and 
which is ufed for various farm pur 
e great expence of et oe ee fort has led panel 
to the introduction of many other mate 
e of wood i 
rad 
a 
oO 
as o 
to all thefe {ubftances, befides their expence, is the highly 
so een {mell that they afford, and their liability to crack 
and oe iter 
eaded mixture we adding water, 
and a white coloured fluid will foou be obtained ate may 
be applied with as much facility as varni ich dries 
very {peedil ; ever, me the fame 
day, as it will become too thick the a ee And with 
this ochre, armenian bole, and all colours which hold with 
lime, may be mixed according to the colour which is wifhed 
to be given to the wood; but care muft be taken that the 
addition of colour made to the firft mixture of curds and 
lime contain very little water, otherwife the painting will be 
lefs durable. 
In performing the work, after two eoats of this paint 
have been applied, it may he polifhed with a piece of woollen 
ae or other proper fubftance, and will become as bright 
as v 
ar is vanced that this paint, befides being cheap, has 
da may be laid on 
n eg 
beft oil painting that can be ap nd another fub- 
ftitute that may be ufed for anceg weather boarding is 
$-t by ing J three he air-flaked lime, pa of wood- 
impenetrable to water, and the fun hardens it, and renders 
it a great preferver of the-wood. 
Another compofition has likewife been made ufe of with 
thin as poffible, and fome days after the firft coat is dry an- 
other applied. It will preferve planks for a very great length 
of time, as well as other fubftances. 
The kinds of oils, their properties, manners of expreffion, 
&c. are numerous: for the generality of them, the reader 
is referred to the proper articles, 
Oats as could not be more conveniently inferted, are as 
a 
= 
“Oin of the Almond, in the Materia saeco is taste 
either from the {weet or the bitter almond, that fro 
or the other being equally free from irrerel 
are put into a coarfe hempen or hair fack, and 
lently, in order to detach, by friGion with one another and 
againft the fides of the fack, the outer-brown fkin, which is 
the oil i 
The Dublin icollge so 
this oil by bralling the freth almonds in a mo ostar, and e 
preffin g it by a pres, without ae Sixteen ounces of lnonds 
yield about five ounces of a bland inodorous oil, of a ve 
eee fweetifh he which is at firft turbid, but foon be- 
bout iii more may be obtained by impreg- 
ating the marc with the fteam of boiling water. e cO- 
bor of this oil is very pale greenifh-yellow, and its {pecific 
e degree at which 
Fabr. 1t 
ahr, and 
is {aid that the oil from the yaad almond keeps a pc 
out growing rancid than that from the {w Thi 
oil is demulcent and alee. and ufed in sate et oer other 
pulmonary complaints united with water by means of muci- 
lage, or the yolk of egg and fugar. A mixture of f. Ziv of 
almond oil, 11 viti of acetate of lead, forms an ufeful injection 
at the commencement of gonorrhea, The dofe of the oid 
is from f.3iv to f 2j. See ALmon 
Ou. of Amber of the London caleaes is obtained by put 
ting the amber into an alembic, and diftilling from a fand- 
bath, with a fire gradually raifed, an acid liquor, the oil, and 
sti cues with the oil; then re-diftilling the oik 
ti 
purified oil of amber of died Edinb. difpenfatory is had 
by “atin oil of amber, m with fix times its weight of 
— rom a glafs retort; wntil. t two-t the water 
e paffed into the receiver ; then feparating this purified 
rlatil oil from the water, and keeping it in well ftopped 
of 
< 
Hé 
ned ne of amber of the Dublin apolar is 
on n by ta a pound of the oil which ¢ 
the preparation of eee acid, and fix pints of narra ane 
diftilling 
