MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
per acre. The figuring above shows, under 
my poor management, that it pays over ten 
per cent, and pays all taxes which should 
not have boon brought in to this statement, 
as we are liable to taxes in any business.— 
Nor must wo overlook our rural joys and 
pleasures, affording more happiness than to 
any othor business class, nor the sure com¬ 
petency, it gives to the industrious and eco¬ 
nomical. 
Now if the above statement does not sat¬ 
isfy the capitalist, I would say that I have 
somo neighbors that can present a richer 
footing. If it will not satisfy their cupidity 
to invest in these “ diggins” they had best 
seek their “Eldorado,” in California, or 
Australia, whore they can get gold by the 
ton. David P. Kneeland. 
Lo Roy, N. Y., December, 1852. 
WINTERING POULTRY. 
Editors Rural I am not sensible of 
having a touch of the poultry fever, but I 
am satisfied that farmers generally might 
winter them in a manner to receive a great¬ 
er profit for the outlay. For several years 
I have adopted a plan, which has been a 
great improvement on tho old one of feed¬ 
ing them once or twice a day. 
Firstly, they should have a place in which 
to winter, so warm that one seldom gets its 
comb frozen. Mine winter under my horse 
barn which is 24 by 48 feet. Under tho 
north half of the barn is a cellar for roots, 
and the bottom of the sills a trifle above the 
lovol of tho ground on tho north end. The 
. land descends to the south, sufficient to 
have an open shed under tho south half, 
which is ten feet from tho ground to tho 
bottom of tho sills, and has a good substan¬ 
tial stone wall laid in lime mortar on three 
sides of it, but open to the south. Over 
this shed or open collar aro my stables, and 
the manure passes through the floor. This 
shed is occupied by my cows and poultry 
though the poultry havo tho same range 
they did in summer. Their roosting place 
is in one corner of this shed, just below tho 
sills, with a shelf by the side of tho roost. 
As soon as they require feeding in the fall, 
I set a large box of corn or other feed on 
the shelf, and keep a good supply by them. 
For a fortnight they will consume more 
food than before, but they then become fat, 
and the rest of the winter, I think they re¬ 
quire no more food than they did by tho 
old practice. Tho result has invariably been 
if they stop laying in December, many of 
them commence in January and February, 
and through the spring months, they do 
better than they did by the old treatment, 
and if a fat chicken is wanted they aro sure 
to be found. 
Some of my neighbors have given their 
poultry the samo keeping, and say instead 
of having to wait till March for eggs, they 
have a supply all winter. It lessens tho care 
and the extra feed is bountifully repaid in 
'eggs. 
If the ground is covered a great length of 
time with snow, they require some gravel 
or lime mortar, and any refuse fresh meat 
will help to increaso the amount of oggs.— 
I find several important advantages in the 
arrangement of my horse barn ; the collar 
for roots, tho warm open shed for my cows, 
and poultry. All tho grain and hay from 
the stable is saved by them, and last, though 
not tho least advantage is the increased 
quality and quantity of the manure heap.— 
Put a load of straw under tho shed, and lot 
it have the litter from the cows, poultry and 
the stable. Every three or four weeks, it 
should be removed to the field and placed 
in small heaps or it will heat or tiro fang, 
which injures its quality. Nothing is so 
sure to make a farmor feel proud of his 
crops as a plenty of manure of the first 
quality, applied to land that is sufficiently 
drained, so that its strength is not lost. 
Alvin Wilcox. 
West Bloomfield, N. Y., Dee. 31, 1852. 
SENECA CO. AG. SOCIETY. - WINTER FAIR. 
This Socioty will hold a winter fair at tho 
Court House, in Waterloo, on Thursday, Feb. 
3. Tho premium list is liberal, embracing 
grain, flour, seeds and roots; also fat cattlo, 
sheep, hogs and poultry—for which high 
premiums aro offered. Those frequent 
gatherings of the farmers, to compete with 
each other in tho products of their labor, 
are not only deeply interesting, but must 
result in much good. Few Societies under¬ 
stand this better than that of Seneca Co. 
A good Calf.—A calf one year and a 
half old, belonging to Aaron Wilson, of 
Ovid, Seneca Co., weighed on tho 13th ult. 
elevon hundred and seventy-five pounds._ 
Its length was twelve feet eleven inches; 
girth, six feet eight inches. This calf must 
have been growing every day of its life. 
Tiie dealer in merchandise simply causes 
wealth to change hands ; and what he gains 
another losos. Not so with tho farmer; for 
any increase in the quantities produced is 
adding so much to tho wealth of tho nation. 
— Prof. Mapes. 
FOUNDERED HORSES. 
Mr. Editor :—What is a foundered horse ? i 
As it respects their feet, it is a lame horse ? 
Are all horses that are lame, foundered.— 
►Some people say so when they don’t know 
what ails them. 
I have seen horses that I was told had 
been laino for years, and were called foun¬ 
dered, when nothing but the shoeing, from 
time to time, kept up an irritation, but 
there is a permanent lameness, such as a 
contraction of the heels, and swelling or 
bulging out in front of the foot, not being 
placed naturally under him. 
He sprains his foot joint, and extends his 
feet forward, and when quite lame, he raises 
his heel and rests on his toe. Let the foot 
be placed directly under him, by raising or 
pulling otf his shoo, and placing him in 
somo soft place, like a barn-yard, and he 
will get well, if attended to tho first two 
months—the sooner the better. 
What is the cause of this ? I never hoard 
any one express any other opinion than that 
they supposed it was done by eating grain 
or drinking water. I havo examined the 
subject a number of years, and have every 
reason to believe it to bo a mistake; the 
thing convicts itself. 
How can it be reasonable to believe what 
a horse eats for food, should single out one 
loot, and that always a fore foot, and always 
a concave, or dishing foot, never a flat one, 
and commonly the fleetest traveling horses. 
I ask how all this should take place on one 
fore foot, and all tho others in good health, 
or both, after a while, and is then called 
chest foundered — one and the same thing; 
it has to favor the lame foot, and that conu s 
on imperceptibly. Now thero is a cause for 
all the lameness in a horse's foot, and that 
cause, I have reason to believe, is produced 
by improper shoeing; except accidents, such 
as wounds and bruises. 
The process of shoeing is very easy; if 
we follow the case pointed out, we will sup¬ 
pose a horse has got his shoo off, and bro¬ 
ken the sides of his hoof. Tho heel and 
toe are commonly entire; just rest tho shoe 
on tho heel and toe, so they may not rock 
or tilt, and if tho shoe does not touch the 
sides, within an eighth of an inch, it will 
not affect his traveling at all, and the next 
time he wants shoeing, his hoof will be 
grown up square again, and may go thro’ 
life in that way, without- being lame, and 
his foot as perfect at the last shoeing as at 
tho first. 
Corns seem to think they have a right to 
put in for a share in laming horses. I shod 
horses thirty-five years, before 1 ever heard 
or saw the name of corns mentioned, and 
have seen but three that lamed them ; it 
was something else put to their account.— 
Three times within thirty years, tho En¬ 
glish modo of shoeing horses has been pub¬ 
lished in one newspaper; tho amount of it 
is, a shoe without heel or toe, and have tho 
frog freely touch the ground. It might do 
for a convex foot, because the frog is small 
and insensible, but a flat-footed horse has a 
larger, sensitive frog, and tho shoe and heol 
should bo high enough to clear tho frog, or ■ 
ho will cripple. Its other objection is, when 
the heads of the nails are worn down, it be¬ 
comes a skate, and cannot hold. 
Much has been said and done to keep 
hoofs in order: two things aro necessary— 
without them, all that 1 have seen done is 
of littlo consequenco; with them, there is 
not anything else wanting. Keep the horse 
in tho stable instead of pasture, and shoe 
him onco in two months correctly, and a 
foundered horse will bo a scarce article. 
What I havo written I believe to bo true, 
and if it should be tho means of saving one 
poor horse from being lame or foundered, I 
shall bo richly compensated for my trouble. 
—Boston Cultivator. 
HEAVY SPADE LIGHT FORK. 
Little stands have ueen made about the 
farm by manufacturers, who take advantage 
of the agricultural gathering at Tiptree to 
display such tools and implements as aro 
thought worth displaying. The stand is 
made ovor a patch of the hardest soil, a 
spado is taken, and it is found that with 
much effort it is simply impossible to dig 
with it efficiently in soil so hard. Tho man 
then takes a light fork, weighing two pounds 
less than the agricultural fork commonly 
put into the hands of laborers. Its five 
narrow prongs aro of cast steel, and it is 
completed of one solid piece without joint 
or weld. With this fork tho man proceeds 
to dig with wonderful facility tho heavy 
stony soil. Tho prongs of such forks yield 
place to the stones, and bend round thorn, 
loosening the soil, springing instantly, when 
withdrawn, into their original form. 
A match was on ono occasion tried bo- 
twen two workmen, ono of whom used the 
old-fashioned, rigid, and broad-bladod fork, 
tho other used one of these light implements 
(Winton Parkes’ they aro called) with nar¬ 
row tines of elastic steel. The man with 
tho light fork earned four shillings, while 
the other was earning two shillings and three 
ponce, and the heavy fork after tho match 
required an outlay of sixpeneo for repairs. 
The savings in repairs and renovation pay 
for the light fork several times in the course 
of a year, and in labor the saving is so groat, 
that a man using this fork is said to lift — 
by the saving of two pounds in each eflort— 
five tons less in tho course of a day’s work 
than his old-fashioned neighbor. Some of 
these forks are made still lighter for the 
use of children, who can earn good day 
wages by the use of them at twelve-inch 
trenching. These forks were regarded as 
playthings by the men when they were first 
brought to Tiptree, but it was soon found 
that whoever could get ono of them to use 
was saved twenty per cent, of labor, and 
was able to perform his work more thor¬ 
oughly than it could otherwise bo done.— 
Thus it appears that there is room for Young 
Agriculture to display its brains, oven upon 
a pitchfork.— Dickens Household Words. 
#rckrii mil ) (fiarkm 
AN EXCELLENT SUMMER SQUASH. 
Eds. Rural:—I herewith send you a few 
seeds of an excellent summer squash. Of 
its name and origin 1 am ignorant. My 
father first obtained the seeds fifteen years 
ago of a neighbor, then living in Genesee Co. 
N. Y. After a littlo wo accidentally lost tho 
seed, and could not find any again till a year 
or tw ) since. 
They are tender, readily and quickly 
cooked and excellent flavor. Whilst young 
and tender their color is white; as they ma¬ 
ture and their shells harden, they take a 
light orange color, somewhat mottled and 
striped by a lighter hue. Size ordinarily 
one and a half by two and a half inches, flat¬ 
tened at the ends. The vines aro not great 
runners but prodigious hearers,—eight or 
ten hills under ordinary circumstances being 
sufficient to supply a modorato sized family, 
with a daily mess, if desired, till frost. I 
think they are not generally cultivated, but 
wherever known, so far as my knowledge 
extends, they are highly appreciated. We 
think them decidedly.superior, and since we 
have them again, wo discard all others. 
I took pains to save quite a quantity of 
the seeds, and if thero are any readers of the 
Rural who desire a lew seeds to plant, 1 
will cheerfully distribute a portion to such 
as will post-pay their requests. 
Laplnunville, Kent Cu., Midi. T. E. Wetmoue. 
WINTER CARS OF HOUSE PLANTS. 
Our lady readers who havo undertaken to 
winter through a favorite lot of House Plants, 
are just now fully entitled to all our sympa¬ 
thies. This frosty weather, while it is very 
welcome to those intent only on a sleigh 
ride, or an evening devoted to fun and frolic, 
is anything but acceptable to those who 
have undertaken to accomplish tho miracle, 
of carrying their house plants through the 
winter, in a cold place, and without tho as¬ 
surance of heavy stone or brick walls, or 
uniform temperature. 
Gentle, patient, and kind hearted, as tho 
women confessedly are, (for tho confession 
must he made) it is greatly to he feared that 
their sweet dispositions may be sorely task¬ 
ed. and their patience submitted to a severe 
ordeal, before the returning sun ami goniu 
weather of {Spring shall permit them again 
to commit their treasures , with confidence 
to the earth, or trust them in an open piaz¬ 
za. And who can blame them for a little 
loss of temper, a trilling deviation from their 
accustomed amiability, when ou examining 
their plants on a cold morning, a favorite 
Rose, Geranium, or other choice products 
of a year, or perhaps several years labor, is 
found frozen down, destroyed, ruined be¬ 
yond the hope of recovery. If they could 
endure all this, without mourning, they 
would really be in truth the angels they 
have been represented, and worthy of an 
admiration more devoted than that now 
showered upon them. 
Rut seriously, for this is a serious busi¬ 
ness, too much care can hardly bo bestowed 
upon the plants which aro to bo carried 
safely through the winter. In favored situ¬ 
ations, where the house is always warm night 
and day, hut, littlo danger need be appre¬ 
hended, but in a majority of the dwellings, 
in this cold latitude, the chances are very 
decidedly against success. Various expedi¬ 
ents may be resorted to, such as removal to 
the cellar, keeping fires nights, &c.. but an 
unlucky day generally comes at last, which 
sweeps away tho result of a whole years 
care and patient cultivation, and with it the 
hopes of success in future. Two or three 
such disappointments generally force upon 
the fair cultivators, the fallacy of attempt¬ 
ing .to aid nature in her appropriate func¬ 
tions, unless indeed tho artificial shall ap¬ 
proach very nearly to tho natural element. 
It is a mistake to supposo, that in order 
to avoid tho dangers of freezing, tho room 
in which plants are to bo wintered should 
bo kept very warm. Too high a tempera¬ 
ture. while it 5 ,will not destroy tho vitality 
of plants as quick as freezing, is neverthe¬ 
less sure to accomplish the samo result in 
the end. A moderate uniform temperature 
is indespensable to a healthy growth of the 
plant, and development of tho blossoms.— 
Careful watering, not only of tho roots, but 
of tho leaves and brandies is also required, 
at all seasons of the year. 
While tho cultivation of House Plants is 
attended with so much caro, and their loss 
causes such bitter disapoinrmeut, success¬ 
ful culturo brings with it pleasures amply 
equivalent for all tho attention bestowed 
upon them. There is hardly a more wel- 
como sight, or ono which will more rej ice 
tho person suscoptible of feeling, than a 
beautiful display of flowers at a season 
when nature is clothed in her winter robos. 
It speaks of joy and gladness within, while 
without all is cold and cheerless—of refine¬ 
ment and taste in tho ladies of the house¬ 
hold, which is sure to find a warm apprecia¬ 
tion in tho hearts of their visitors.— JY. Y. 
Farmer. 
Old Apple Tree —Tho Hartford Courant 
says there stands on the “ Charter Oak 
Placo,” owned by Hon. L. W. Stewart, an 
apple tree imported in 1(538 by Geo. Wyllys, 
and therefore at loast two hundred and four¬ 
teen years old. It is an English Poarmain. 
Tho past season it bore quite liberally, and 
a small branch on which is a number of 
apples, has been pro6orved in spirits and 
presented to tho Historical Socioty. 
Avoid that which you blame in others. 
mtit State, tic. 
ENGLISH CHOPPING- AX. 
Tiie cut here given is a faithful represen¬ 
tation of the chopping ax used in England. 
Tho one from which tho engraving was 
made, has been loaned us by C. Asiiley, Esq., 
of Ogdensburgh, by whom it was imported, 
and may bo seen at the offico of the Rural. 
The length is eleven inches and tho width 
of the bit, four and a half inches, differing 
as will be seen, very much from those in use 
in the United States. Our trans-Atlantic 
neighbors havo been accustomed to boast of 
tho superiority of every thing emanating 
from their manufactories, but no woodsman 
in America could be induced to substitute 
tho English ax, for the genuino Yankee one 
in general use. The outside pressure has of 
late been so strong, that the English manu¬ 
facturer lias commenced imitating American 
tools, having as an instance procured an ax 
from our popular friend, Barton, as a sYe 
plus ultra pattern with which to supply tho 
demand for better tools. Other English 
tools are as widely different from our own 
as the ax, and we may, by well executed en¬ 
gravings give the readers of the Rural an 
opportunity to compare and decide which 
is the better article. + 
RE3TJLTS OF ACCIDENTS. 
Some of tho most useful inventions owo 
their existence entirely to accident; such, 
tor instance, as tho accidental discovery that 
Plaster of Paris was a non conductor of 
heat—a peculiarity to which our “ fire proof 
safes” are entirely indebted for thoir useful¬ 
ness and popularity. This discovery was 
first made in this city in 1830, by a mechan¬ 
ic, who carried on various branches of smith- 
work in Etdridge Street. Having occasion 
to heat some water, ho took a cast-iron vessel 
in which plaster of Paris had been used, and 
to which some had adhered, forming a crust 
or coating on the inside of the kottle from 
one-half to three fourths of an inch in thick¬ 
ness; he poured in water, and put it over a 
fire, with a view of heating the water suifi- 
eiontlv for his purpose; to his great surprise, 
after remaining in some time, he found that 
no change had boon made in tho tempera¬ 
ture of the water; he blew the bellows, ren¬ 
dered the lire still hotter, and was still more 
surprised, after a long lapse of time, that tho 
water would not become warm; ho left tho 
water on the fire, and went on with his work. 
Returning after somo hours, ho found tho 
water had become a littlo tepid ; on this he 
laid various combustible substances on tho 
fire, but still no effect was produced. Being 
somewhat puzzled to account for so strange 
a state of things, he next day instituted a 
series of inquiries, tho result ot which was 
the invention of the celebrated ‘'Salaman¬ 
der Safe,” for tiie privilege of manufac.u 
ring which. Mr. Wilder, of this city, pays 
the discoverer. S. C. Herring, $25,000 per 
year. So much for having an accident in 
the family and properly taking advantage 
of it.— JY. Y. Dutchman. 
NEW FLOORING COMPOSITION. 
Saturate a quantity of chalk, or marl, or 
lime, or loamy clay, or sandy earth previ¬ 
ously reduced to the state of fine powder, 
with oil or tar, or mineral tar, or vegetable 
napths, or any other resinous, oily or fatty 
matter. Then take one ewt. of rosin, and 
melt it in a caldron exposed to a gentle fire, 
until all the water is evaporated, and throw 
into tho caldron, 2 cwt. of the saturated 
chalk, or othor earth, and mix it well with 
the melted rosin. Next add from threo to 
six pounds of Liquid Indian Rubber, or 
from threo to six pounds of ossontiul oil ot 
tar, or some other oily or fatty substance, 
and after that from 3 to 5 cwt. of sulphur, 
and finally two cwt. of dry grit, keeping all 
tho contents of tho caldron well stirred, till 
the whole are thoroughly amalgamated.— 
When cool tho compound is of a saltish 
grey color, and of a olosb, granular toxturc. 
5 This compound may bo used by being 
laid down in a hot and fluent state, ot suf¬ 
ficient thickness; or combined with any 
of the natural asphaltes, or bitumen, or with 
wood or stone, to make a perfectly anti¬ 
damp flooring, durable and cheap. 
The Crystalotype. —The Tribune has 
the following Tho latest effort of in¬ 
vention, in tho way of art, is ono of singu¬ 
lar beauty, called tho Crystalotype, invent¬ 
ed and patented by John A. Whipple, of 
Boston, and brought to this city and now 
practised by Root, tho well known daguer- 
rean artist, No. 363 Broadway. The Crys- 
talotypo is a method of taking likenesses 
upon glass and paper, so that when finished 
they present all tho beauty of an actual 
painting, with tho unerring accuracy of tho 
daguorreotype likeness. Tho process is 
easy, and when ono picturo is made, hun¬ 
dreds of coyies may bo takon—thus ni a 
measure rivalling tho steol-plato press, &e.’ 
A New Metal.— Dr. Owen of England, 
has discovered a new metal, of the earthy 
class, holding an intermediate position be¬ 
tween magnesia and maganeso; the name 
given to it'is Thalium. Its oxide, dissolved 
in hydrochloric acid, is of a beautiful poa- 
groen color. 
ENGLISH AND FRENCH PATENT LAWS. 
Perhaps a portion of the readers of tho 
Tribune, would bo pleased to bo informed 
of the recent changes made in tho Patent 
Laws of England and France. 
It Is well known that by the former Jaws 
of England, it was necessary to tako out 
separate Patents for England, Scotland and 
Ireland, and that tho inventor could secure 
his right throughout Great Britain, (not in¬ 
cluding the Colonies.) only by an expendi¬ 
ture of about two thousand dollars. 
By the new law recently enacted, a Patent 
issued in England has full force and effect 
throughaut tho Empire, whether it bo in 
Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Jamaica, or any 
of the Colonies. At the samo time the cost 
is very materially diminished, besides giving 
the patentee an opportunity of paying his 
money or not, as bo finds it for his interest 
to keep up tho Patent. 
For example—$20 secures the Patent for 
six months, $100 extends it for threo years, 
at the end of which time, by paying the ad¬ 
ditional sum of $250, tho patentee can ex¬ 
tend his right for seven years more, and at 
the end of this period, he may. if lie chooses, 
by tho payment of the sum of $500, secure 
an additional term of seven years. Thus 
the poor patentee may secure himself tho 
benefits of his invention without dividing 
with a capitalist, who will advanco the 
money necessary to secure the right. If 
tho Patent is of no value, it can bo aban¬ 
doned without much loss; if valuable, it 
furnishes tho means of its own renewal. 
In France, tho total expense of* a Patent 
securing a right for fifteen years, is $300, 
which was formerly required to bo paid on 
taking out tho Patent, but, by the amended 
law, as it now stands, this sum may be paid 
by annual instalments of $20 a year. If 
the annual payment is not made punctually, 
on or before the expiration of the year, 
even by an hour, tho right is forfeited,—but 
this is the only penalty of non-payment, so 
that tho patenteo may abandon his right 
whenever ho pleases. In France too, there 
is no previous examination, but whatever is 
asked for is granted, and all questions as to 
the novelty of the invention, or the right to 
the Patent, are left to tho courts should it 
ever be contested. In England—as in tho 
United States—a previous examination as 
to tho novelty and ability of the invention 
is always made by tho persons appointed 
for that purpose. 
A New Lamp. —Foreign papers stato that 
a patent has recently been taken out by a 
Mr. Whole, for an extraordinary and rather 
singular lamp. It has a clock face, and as 
the candle burns, the hands mark the hours 
and minutes correctly, and a hammer strikes 
the time. As a light for a sick room, it can 
bo set to strike at given periods, when the 
patient may require attention. It rings an 
alarm at any stated period; puts out tho 
light itself if required; and if the sleeper must 
he aroused, it is said to fire a percussion cap. 
It also determines the amount of light pro¬ 
duced. and the rapidity with which the can¬ 
dles of different manufacturers are consum¬ 
ed. And to put on tho finishing stroke, all 
this is said to be accomplished by tho most 
simple machinery imaginable. 
Pickling Beef, or other Meat —A pro¬ 
cess by which you can preserve your beef, 
mutton, or venison, and keep eating it all 
tho time, and it will remain free from any 
taint, as I havo never lost a pieco in my 
life. 
Take all tho bone out of tho beef, mutton, 
or venison, cut in pieces of from ono to 
two inches thick. Take cold spring or well 
water and put it in a clean tub, then put in 
tho salt and stir as long as it will dissolve, 
adding a little more. Then put your meat 
in and let it remain somo 24 hours. Then 
renew tho brine again, (throwing the old 
on a compost heap, so as to suffer no loss) 
in tho manner above described, cleansing 
tho tub well and adding more salt than tho 
water will dissolve, to supply that which 
may bo taken up by the meat.— So. Cult. 
The covering for preserves, U3ed by tho 
trade, instead of a bladder, is mado by 
brushing over sheets of wet paper, of tho 
thickness and length required, with linseed 
oil which has been previously boiied. The 
sheets should bo hung on a string, and be* 
thoroughly dry before using. The material 
is also used for tulip shades, and as a sub¬ 
stitute for glass in workshops. It is per¬ 
fectly water proof. 
How to make Hominy Breakfast Cakes. 
—Mash the cold hominy with a rolling pin, 
and add a littlo flour and milk batter, so as 
to make the whole thick enough to fi r n into 
littlo cakes in tho hand, or it may ho put on 
tho griddle with a spoon. Bake brown, eat 
hot, and declare "you never ate anything 
better of tho batter kind. 
Reasons wiiy Coffee is not Well Made. 
— Tho berries are frequently too rapidly 
roasted, their proper color being that ot 
cinnamon. 2d. The coffee is ground too 
fino. 3d. Not enough coffee is used. 4th. 
It is usually overboi ed. hv which moans tho 
bitter principle is extracted from the borrios, 
and little or no pains are takon to clarify if- 
To Bleach a Faded Dress. —Wash tho 
dross in hot soda, and boil it until tho color 
appears to bo gone; then rinse it and dry 
it in tho sun. Should it not bo rendered 
white by those means, lay the dress in the 
upon air, and bleach it for several days.— 
If still not quite whito, repeat tho boiling. 
Perhaps it is not generally known, as it 
should bo, that salt put in tho mouth, will 
instantly relievo the convulsive movements 
in fits, either of children or animals. 
