XVlll 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 19 10 



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Go into your hall — see what an added charm it 

 would have if you had an Ithaca Colonial Hall 

 Clock. 



First impressions are lasting, and should be the best. 

 A hall with a Colonial Clock gives that homey feel- 

 ing, and has a finished, complete look. 



Ithaca Hall Clocks are made of polished cherr\ , 

 mahoganized, or polished selected oak, and are guar- 

 anteed to keep perfect time for ten years. 



Shipped Anywhere, Freight 

 Prepaid, on Approval 



Send the narnei of tivo business 

 houses or a bank for reference. 



Try it ten days. If satisfac- 

 tory, remit us the price, 

 $28.80, or $8.00 down and 

 $3.00 a month for 8 months. 

 Hall Clocks that formerly sold 

 at from $80.00 to $1,000.00. 

 Established 1865 — Largest 

 builders of hall clocks in the 

 world. 



Makers of the celebrated 

 Ithaca Calendar Clocks. 

 Catalog of either on request. 



Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. 



100 Franklin Street 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



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responsible person any- 

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up for four days. The green berries then 

 <^ct softer and change color, and the ptilp 

 is more or less squashed. The berries are 

 then spread out and dried. The skin and 

 part of the pulp adhere as a dark-colored, 

 dry, wrinkled covering to the stones, and 

 the pepper is black in appearance. 



\Miite pepper is less pungent and more 

 expensive than black, but is preferred by 

 many from its not being readily seen in the 

 food. The pepper produced on the Malabar 

 coast of India stands high in grade and 

 brings the best i)rice in commerce. 



I have not at hand sufficient data to de- 

 termine even approximately the quantity of 

 pepper produced in southern India. It is 

 certainly a very large and important prod- 

 uct. The natives use it freely to season 

 their rice and curry, and no doubt as mucli 

 is consumed locally as is exported. 



During the year ended March 31, 1902, 

 there was exported from Bombay to Indian 

 ports, such as Calcutta, Madras, Rangoon, 

 Karachi, and to Kathiawar, Portuguese 

 Goa, Kutch, Gaekwar State, and other Brit- 

 ish and native states in India, 3,163,826 

 pounds of pepper of a value of $343,805. 



During the same period there was ex- 

 ported from Bombay to foreign countries 

 2,487,883 pounds of pepper, valued at $277,- 

 914. 



The total of the coastwise and foreign 

 exportation of pepper shows a production 

 above the supply for local consumption of 

 5,651,709 pounds of a value of $621,719. 



It may be of some interest to state that 

 of the exports, Egypt took 608,000 pounds : 

 Aden (and Arabia), 767,000 pounds; Per- 

 sia and Asiatic Turkey, 800,600 pounds- — or 

 of all the pepper exported from Bombay to 

 foreign countries, about 90 per cent, was 

 consumed by the four countries named. 



THE PRODUCTION OF A BLACK 

 COLOR ON BRASS 



By Erwin S. Sperry. 



MUCH difficulty is often experienced 

 by platers and other brass work- 

 ers in the production of a satisfac- 

 tory black color on brass. This would, per- 

 haps, appear somewhat ridiculous, inas- 

 much as brass will of its own accord ox- 

 idize to a black color, if left for any length 

 of time. Oxidized silver, which was much 

 in vogue at one time, greatly stimulated 

 the production of a similar finish on brass, 

 and the same method was employed, but 

 usually with unsatisfactory results. In the 

 oxidization of silver the property of tarn- 

 ishing by sulphur compounds is made use 

 of, as the ready susceptibility of this metal 

 to such influences is sufficient to render the 

 process quite satisfactory. Silver is very 

 easily blackened by sulphur and its corn- 

 pounds, and all that is necessary to do is 

 to bring it in contact with a solution of 

 potassium or sodium sulphide (liver of 

 sulphur), when an immediate blackening 

 takes place. The same method used on 

 brass produces a black color, but not en- 

 tirely satisfactory, as it is wanting both 

 in color and in depth. If allowed to re- 

 main for a long time, in order to obtain a 

 deep black, the coating does not appear to 

 adhere, but scales off. These difficulties 

 render the employment of sulphur com- 

 pounds in blackening brass more or less 

 unsatisfactory, and much trouble is found 

 in their use. Those who have attempted 

 their use have usually abandoned the 

 method in favor of others. 



The solution now generally employed 

 for the production of a black or oxidized 

 surface on brass is a solution of carbonate 

 of copper in ammonia. The work is im- 



