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 stirring about the manure exposes a great proportion thereof to the sun's beams by which means the life of the substance becomes rarified, and it looses much of its virtue.

DISSOLVE one ounce of salt petre in two and an half pints of warm water; soak the seed 12 hours. It will come up earlier, be sooner ripe, and the birds will not destroy it. It is thought, however, by some farmers that when seed is planted early, or the ground is wet, soaking the seed is injurious by weakening the germinating principle.

A PINT of boiling water; one ounce of rock candy; half an ounce of Gum Arabic; when cold add one ounce of Paragoric ; half an ounce of Antimonial Wine. Take half a wineglass of this mixture, on going to bed and whenever the cough is troublesome half that quantity. For children a table spoonful on going to bed, and when the cough is troublesome a tea spoonful,

Indelible Ink. Take nitrate of silver 2 drachms, rain water 2 ounces, Tincture of galls 30 drops — the linen should be first wet with a solution of Pearl ash in water and suffered to dry previous to writing on it.

Another kind.

THE purple precipitate of Cassius is recommended in the Italian journals as an indelible ink, much superior to that of silver. That part of the linen on which is to be the writing is to be moistened with a solution