Slugs in the Garden

1056. To prevent Slugs from getting into Fruit Trees. – If the trees are standards, tie a coarse horse-hair rope about them two or three feet from the ground. If they are against the wall, nail a narrow slip of coarse horse-hair cloth against the wall, about half a...

Words

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipt for the Million 1857? 1387. — Knowledge will  aid you even in hand work ; and a good book is a safe refuge in idle hours. Inspiring Words from the Blog de Troops First off, inspiring words came from all the people...

The Danger of Jumping Out

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Millions 1857? 809. Best mode of avoiding the fatal Accidents of Open Carriages –Jumping out is particularly dangerous, (the motion of the gig communicating a different one to the one you give yourself by jumping) which tends...

Hydroponic Marriages

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 2685. No union should be undertaken until both of the contacting parties are fully acquainted with each other’s disposition. Funny about doing research for one subject, you often stumble on...

Miss Lydia’s Academy

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipt for the Million 1857? Ink—To make five gallons of good ink, costing but twelve-and-a half cents, take half a pound of extract of logwood, and dissolve it in five gallons of hot water, and add half an ounce of bichromate...

Remembering Gettysburg

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? To write secretly on a pocket Handkerchief.- Dissolve alum in pure water, and write upon a fine white handkerchief, which, when dry will not be seen at all.  But when you would have the letters visible,...

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