asted. Then take out the calico, wash it first in
chamber lye, and afterwards in cold water. Rinse it in water-starch
strained, dry it quick without hanging it in folds, and let it be well
mangled. It would be better still to have it callendered.--Blue. The
calico must be washed clean and dried. Then mix some of Scott's liquid
blue in as much water as will be sufficient to cover the things to be
dyed, and add some starch to give it a light stiffness. Dry a small
piece of the lining to see whether the colour is deep enough; and if
approved, put it in and wash it in the dye. Dry the articles singly, and
mangle or callender them.

FURS. To preserve them from the moth, comb them occasionally while in
use. When not wanted, mix among them bitter apples from the druggists,
in small muslin bags, sewing them in several folds of linen, carefully
turned in at the edges. Keep the furs in a cool place, free from damp.

G.

GAD FLY. Cows and oxen are often so distressed by the darts of the gad
fly, that they rush into the water for refuge till night approaches. The
only remedy is to wash the backs of the cattle in the spring with strong
tobacco-water, which would greatly prevent the generating of these
vermin. When sheep are struck with the fly, the way is to clip off the
wool, to rub the parts affected with powdered lime or wood ashes, and
afterwards to anoint them with currier's oil, which will heal the
wounds, and secure the animals from future attack. Or dissolve half an
ounce of corrosive sublimate in two quarts of soft water, and add a
quarter of a pint of spirits of turpentine. Cut off the wool as far as
it is infected, pour a few drops of the mixture in a circle round the
maggots produced by the flies, and afterwards rub a little of it among
them, and the maggots will immediately be destroyed.

GAME. Game ought not to be thrown away even after it has been kept a
long time, for when it seems to be spoiled it may often be made fit for
eating, by carefully cleaning and washing it with vinegar and water. If
there is danger of birds not keeping, the best way is to crop and draw
them. Pick them clean, wash them in two or three waters, and rub them
with salt. Plunge them into a kettle of boiling water one by one, and
draw them up and down by the legs, that the water may pass through them.
Let them remain in the water five or six minutes, and then hang them up
in a cool place. When drained, season the insides well with