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Newly ground coffee, sprinkled over game, will keep it sweet and fresh for several days. Clean the game; that is, wipe off the blood, cover the wounded 1640. To Dry Apples, Pears and heads, and then sprinkle ground coffee over wrap up the other Fruits. Have a frame made in the and amongst the feathers or fur, as the case following manner:- Two strips of board 7 may be; pack up carefully, and the game feet long, 2 or 24 inches wide-two strips 3 will be preserved fresh and sweet in the most feet long, 1½ inches wide, the whole of an unfavorable weather. Game sent open and loose, cannot, of course, be treated in this manner; but all game packed in boxes or hampers may be deodorized as described. A tea-spoonful of coffee is enough for a brace of birds; and in this proportion for more or for larger game. 1646. Το Preserve with Creosote.

Creosote, a pungent compound existing in common smoke, and which starts the tears when the smoke enters the eyes, is a powerful antiseptic, or preventer of putrefaction. It is employed to preserve animal substances, either by washing it over them or by immersinch thick; nail the long strips across the ends of the short ones, and it makes a frame 7 by 3 feet, which is a convenient size for all purposes. On one of the long strips, nails are driven 3 inches apart, extending from one end to the other. After the apples are pared, they are quartered and cored, and with a needle and twine, or stout thread, strung into lengths long enough to reach twice across the frame; the ends of the twine are then tied together, and the strings hung on the nails across the frame. The apples will soon dry so that the strings can be doubled on the nails, and fresh ones put on, or the whole of them ing them in its aqueous solution. A few removed and others put in their place. As drops in a saucer, or on a piece of spongy fast as the apples become sufficiently dry they paper, if placed in a larder, will effectually can be taken from the strings, and the same drive away insects, and make the meat keep strings used to dry more on. If large apples several days longer than otherwise. are used to dry, they can be cut in smaller the modes in which creosote has hitherto By all pieces. Pears and quinces, and other fruits been employed in preserving meat, it has acthat can be strung, may be dried in this way. quired a disagreeable taste and smell. This In pleasant weather the frames can be set may be obviated by placing a small plate conout of doors against the side of the building, taining a little creosote immediately under or any other support, and at night, or on each piece of meat as it hangs in the larder, SOLUTIONS FOR ANATOMICAL PREPARATIONS. 1653. Chloride of Tin Antiseptic Soand covering them both over with a cloth. A small quantity added to brine or vinegar is lution. Dissolve 4 parts chloride of tin in commonly employed to impart a smoky flavor 100 parts water containing 3 parts muriatio to meat and fish, and its solution in acetic acid (hydrochloric) acid. is used to give the flavor of Scotch whiskey 1654. Antiseptic Solution of Ammoto plain spirit. The preservative effect of nia. Mix 1 part, by weight, strong liquor of smoke-drying is partially due to creosote, ammonia, with 3 parts water and 3 parts reccreosote, ammonia, with 3 parts water and 3 parts recwhich gives to the meat its peculiar smoky taste, and partly to desiccation. tified spirit. Or:-1 part sal ammoniac and 10 or 11 parts water; for the muscular parts of