be in about
twenty-four hours from the time of its being milked, but longer in
proportion as the weather is colder. If put into vessels which have been
used for milk to be soured in, it will change the sooner. New milk must
always be used for this purpose. Boniclapper is an excellent food at all
times, particularly for those who are troubled with any kind of
stoppages; it powerfully opens the breast and passages, is itself easy
of digestion, and helps to digest all hard or sweeter foods. It also
cools and cleanses the whole body, renders it brisk and lively, and is
very efficacious in quenching thirst. No other sort of milkmeat or
spoonmeat is so proper and beneficial for consumptive persons, or such
as labour under great weakness and debility. It should be eaten with
bread only, and it will be light and easy on the stomach, even when new
milk is found to disagree. If this soured milk should become unpleasant
at first, a little custom and use will not only render it familiar, but
agreeable to the stomach and palate; and those who have neither wisdom
nor patience to submit to a transient inconvenience, will never have an
opportunity of knowing the intrinsic value of any thing. To these may be
added a variety of other articles adapted to a state of sickness and
disease, which will be found under their respective heads; such as Beef
Tea, Flummery, Jellies of various kinds, Lemon Whey, Vinegar Whey, Cream
of Tartar Whey, Mustard Whey, Treacle Posset, Buttermilk, Onion
Porridge, Water Gruel, and Wormwood Ale.

TREES. Several different methods have been proposed of preventing the
bark being eaten off by hares and rabbits in the winter season; such as
twisting straw-ropes round the trees; driving in small flat stakes all
about them; and the use of strong-scented oils. But better and neater
modes have lately been suggested; as with hog's lard, and as much
whale-oil as will work it up into a thin paste or paint, with which the
stems of the trees are to be gently rubbed upwards, at the time of the
fall of the leaf. It may be done once in two years, and will, it is
said, effectually prevent such animals from touching them. Another and
still neater method, is to take three pints of melted tallow to one pint
of tar, mixing them well together over a gentle fire. Then, in the month
of November, to take a small brush and go over the rind or bark of the
trees with the composition in a milk-warm state, as thin as it can be
laid on with