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 ought to be abandoned; for this is the foulest and most unwholesome excrement of the liquor.

To cure a butt of ropy Beer.

MIX two handfulls of bean flour with one handful of wheat flour and stir it in.

To feed and give a fine flavour to a barrel of Beer.

PUT six sea biscuits into a bag of hops, and put all into the cask.

Pea-pods in Beer.

THE pods of peas, after being dried it is said are excellent in beer, affording spirit to the beer.

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To preserve bees from worms or butterflies.

ABOUT the first of May, raise the hive up, and strew some fine salt under the edge, which will drive those insects away.

''A method of taking the honey without destroying the Bees. From the American Farmer.''

IN the evening, when the bees have retired, take the hive gently from the stand; spread a table cloth on the ground; set the hive on it, placing something under to raise it three or four inches; then draw up the corners of the cloth, and fasten them tight around the middle of the hive, leaving it so loose below that the bees will have room sufficient between them and the hive.&mdash;Then raise the lid of the hive a little, and blow in the smoke from a cigar; a few puffs of which as it