Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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Concrete Floors and Walks

plaster to be used should have the property of setting immediately it is laid on, and in all Compost for barn and kitchen floors: - After such cases gauge stuff is used, and conse- the ground on which the floor is intended to quently it is extensively employed for cement- be made is leveled, let it be covered to the ing ornaments to walls or ceilings, as well as thickness of 3 or 4 inches with stones, broken thickness of 3 cr 4 inches with stones, broken for casting the ornaments themselves. small, and well rammed down; upon which

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