Slack stone lime in a tub or barrel with boiling water - covering it to keep in all the steam. Pass six quarts of it thro a fine sieve - then be in a state of fine flour. To this 6 qts. add one qt. or Box of Rock Is. salt & 1 gallon of water. Boil this & skim it clean. To every 5 gals. of this skimed mixture add one pound of alum, ½ lb. copperas, by slow degree add ¾ lb. of potash & 4 quarts of fine sand or hickory ashes - color it as you please and apply with brush (paint) under a building (roof) impervious to rain or fine.

For Diarrhea, or Summer complaint in children, let them eat a few strawberry leaves or drink a tea made of the leaves.

Take of Powdered Ialap - Rhubarb - Colombo - Ginger - & Cream of Tartar - each, one Drachm - Sulphate of Iron Ten grains - Senna, four ounces - Peppermint water Ten ounces; mix well.

Of this mixture - Take an ounce and a half in the morning before breakfast, and the same quantity at Eleven O'Clock in the morning, for a dose - This remedy should be continued dayly for two weeks - then omit taking for 5 or 6 days, & take some other gentle purgative every other day that does not contain mercury.

Multiply the length, breadth & height together to get the number of cubic feet, then by 1728 to reduce to inches and divide by 2150-4/10 and you have the number of bushels or which is nearly the same and more simple - multiply the number of cubic feet by 8 and divide by 10. If this be in the ear take the half of it for the quantity of shelled corn.

3 drachms spirits of camphor
3 dr. laudanum
3 dr. oil of turpentine
30 drops oil of peppermint

Mix and take a tea spoon full in a gram of wead brandy & water for diarrhea and a table spoon ful in weak brandy & water for cholera.

Take 2 parts of Sitharge pounded very fine - 1 part of very fine clean sand and one part of quick lime, slacked spontaneously. Mix thoroughly together. Then as you wish to make a paste with boiled linseed oil, to be applied quick as it hardens very fast. To patch a boiler use this cement & fasten in the patch with bolts of wood on the inside of boiler between the patch & flew of boiler or in any way to confine the patch to its place.

Put up a measured pole, (when the sun throws a long shadow is best) - and then as the lengths of the shadow of the Pole is to the length of the pole - as the length of the Tree to the height of Tree.

Trim your trees in the spring or summer when in a growing condition - or the would will heal better than in the winter when the tree is not growing.

Cut tolerably thin. Salted down for about few days - or if warmer a less time. Then take for every 100 lbs. of beef - 10 lbs. of salt - 3 lb. brown sugar, 3 pints of molasses - 3 oz. of salt petre & 1 oz. potash. Boil thin in water and scum it until scum ceases to rise then lay it by until it becomes perfectly cool; then pour it over the beef, packed in good close barrels. No more water should be used then sufficient to corn the beef.