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TAKE one ounce of salts of tartar, dissolve in twenty-six spoonsfull of fair water; then take one spoonful of pure lime juice, and add a lump of loaf sugar, as large as a walnut. Let it dissolve, then add a spoonful of tartar liquid, dissolved as above, and give it the patient, before eating, twice in twenty-four hours.

Another Remedy.

TAKE tar, and flowers of sulphur, each one part, sweet cream, or fresh butter, two parts; simmer to an ointment, and apply it to the part daily, and keep the air from it by dressing it with a linen cloth, besmeared with the same. This will likewise cure the itch.

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NO manure is so good as sand to loosen and soften a clayey soil. A clay soil has more of the food of plants in it than any other soil, and wants only to have its cohesion sufficiently broken to give a free passage to the roots of vegetables. A layer of two and an half inches thick will not be too much for land in tillage if it be a stiff clay. The benefit of sanding does not appear so much the first year, as in a year or two afterwards. For the oftener the land is tilled the more thoroughly is the sand mixed with the clay. But sand, laid on clay land, in grass will produce a great effect.

It is a rule, says Sir John Sinclair, in regard to sandy soils, never to pick off any small stones that maybe found in them, as they contribute to prevent evaporation, and to preserve moisture. It is another rule frequently to renovate the strength of such soils, by laying them down with grass seeds, and pasturing them