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 of sixteen eggs, till the whole mass become of a like colour. Then pour it into a baking dish lined with puff or paste.

AFFORD an oil with the greatest facility and abundance. One gallon of seeds it is said will yield about half a gallon of oil. They may be pressed like rape seed or flax seedseed. [sic] The oil is clear, limpid, pale, scentless, and when used for sallad [sic] instead of sweet oil has merely a faint insipid taste: it burns well and without smoke.

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TO have a constant succession of radishes for the table, the seeds should be sown once a fortnight from April to August. As they are uncertain in their growth, the best method is to put the seeds between rows of other plants; and they are so easily pulled that they need not incommode the plants among which they grow.

TAKE one quart of oat meal, four drops of oil rhodium, one grain of musk, two nuts of nux vomica powdered; mix the whole together, and place it where the rats frequent; continue to do so while they eat it, and it will soon destroy them.

Another method of destroying Rats.

TAKE equal quantities of unslacked lime and powdered oat meal; mix them by stirring, without adding