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Mr. Forsythes Composition. 
Take one bushel of fresh cow-clung, half a bush^ 
el of lime rubbish of old buildings (that from the 
ceiling of rooms is preferable) half a bushel of wood 
ashes, and a sixteenth part of a bushel of pit or ri¬ 
ver sand : the three last articles are to be sifted 
fine before they are mixed ; then work them well 
together with a spade, afterward Vi^ith a wooden 
beater, until the stuff is very smooths like fine 
plaister used for the ceilings of rooms. As the 
best way of using this composition, is found by ex¬ 
perience to be in a liquid state, it must be redu¬ 
ced to the consistence of pretty thick paint, by miX“ 
/ ing it up with a sufficient quantity of urine and 
soap-suds, and laid on with a painter’s brush.-— 
Then take a quantity of dry powder of wood ashes, 
mixed with a sixth part of the same quantity of the 
ashes of burnt bones ; put it into a tin box, with 
holes in the top, and after the composition has been 
applied, as above directed, shake the powder on its 
surface, till the whole is covered over with it, let¬ 
ting it remain for half an hour, to absorb the moist¬ 
ure ; then apply more powder, rubbing it on gent- 
ly with the hand, and repeating the application of 
the powder, till the whole applied composition be-> 
comes a dry smooth surface. 
If any of the composition be left for a future oc- . 
casion, it should be kept in a tub, or other vessel i 
and urine of any kind poured upon it, so as to co- 
