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be produced, according to the perfumes 

 employed to give them their peculiar odor. 

 Some of the fragrance, however, is always 

 lost by adding the volatile periumes warm ; 

 therefore another method to produce scen- 

 ted soaps is to add the odoriferous ingredi- 

 ents cold. This is done by shaving bar 

 soap in very thin slit^es, pounding them in 

 a mortar with a very small quantity of cold 

 soft water, adding the perfumes, and tritu- 

 rating well with the pestle. When w-ell 

 triturated, the soap is taken out and press- 

 ed into any desired form of cakes in moulds, 

 and then set to dry m a cool place. 



A very fine fancy soap is thus made by 

 adding to 6 lbs. of soap shavings, 8 ounces 

 of oil of citron, half an ounce of verbena, 

 4 oz. of the oil of bergamot, and 2 ounces 

 of the oil of lemons. This is an expen- 

 sive but excellent toilet soap. 



Transparent soap is made by dissolving 

 pure tallow or oil soap in alcohol, t]ien al- 

 lowing it to dry in a warm situation. The 

 soap is added to the alcohol in fine shav- 

 ings, and after being dissolved it is formed 

 into cakes or balls, as may be desired. 

 Any kind of perfume may also be added to 

 transparent soaps in the alcohol. 



Medicated Soaps. — Septimius Piesse has 

 stated that he made a series of experiments 

 with soaps, by medicating them with sul- 

 phur, iodine, bromine, creosote, &c. These 

 substances were added to the soap while 

 cold. He believes they might be of ser- 

 vice in the treatment of some diseases, 

 but does not speak of their effects positive- 

 ly. Sulphur combined with soap has been 

 found very useful for skin diseases caused 

 by insectoria. It is employed in the warm 

 bath, and is found to be very effectual. — 

 Scientific American. 



Sowing Wheat Broadcast is almost an obso- 

 lete practice in England. It is only barely tol- 

 erable when a good ley has been well ploughed 

 and pressed, so that the grains fall almost entire- 

 ly into the seams, and rests upon a solid and there- 

 fore congenial bed. An irapoi-tant and almost 

 • insensible change has lately taken place in the 

 quantity of wheat planted per acre. The nu- 

 merous reasons for and against thick and thin 

 sowing have been advocated often enough to be 

 very well known. It should be remembered, 

 however, that the time and mode of sowing the 

 wheat, the crop that preceded it, the kind and 

 quality of wheat used, the natural fertility or 

 poverty of the soil, its tenacity and aspect, and 

 the artificial power given it, all exercise an im- 

 portant influence upon the quantity of seed re- 



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quired. Still, that wheat is sowed considerably 

 thinner within the last few years, is certain. 

 The quantity of seed used now may be stated 

 to be from 4 to G pecks per acre, when dibbled; 

 from G to 8 pecks when drilled ; and from 8 to 

 12 pecks when sown broadcast. It should be 

 borne in mind that too little seed may be used 

 as well as too much; the soundest economy is 

 to use that quantity which produces the best 

 crop in an average of years, — Ohio Valley Far- 

 mer. 



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