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To Shell Beans Easily

Pour and the beans will slip very easily from the pod. By pouring scalding water on apples, the skin may be easily slipped off, and much labor saved. 6222. To Dissolve Gum-Shellac in Ammonia. The vessel containing the shellac is put into a large vessel with hot water. Boiling water is then poured on the gum, after which ammonia is added slowly, but continuously, stirring all the while with a glass rod, until solution is effected. An excess of ammonia will color the solution Candles. First steep the wicks in a solution 6231. To Improve the Wicks of brown. After cooling, the fluid is filtered, of lime-water in which saltpetre has been and mav be kept in this state a long while. dissolved. To 1 gallon water add 2 ounces 6223. To Manage Water -Pipes in saltpetre and pound lime. Dry well the Winter. When the frost begins to set in, wicks before using. It improves the light, cover the water-pipes with hay or straw bands, and prevents the tallow from running. twisted tight round them. Let the cisterns 6232. Adhesive for Leather Belts. occasionally; Printers' ink is a good adhesive for leather this will keep the water pure and fresh.

In belts. One application will keep a leather pumping up water into the cistern for the belt in running order for 12 months. water-closet, be very particular in winter 6233. time.

Let all the water be let out of the Francois, in his work, "Art des Fontaines," Ajutage of Fountains. pipe when done; but if this is forgotten, and estimates the decrease in the height of the it should be frozen, take a small gimlet and bore a hole in the pipe, a little distance from the place where it is let off, which will prevent its bursting. Put a peg into the hole when the water is let off.

M. jet to be 1 foot below the level of the source for every 100 yards distance. He considers the ajutage or opening of the pipe should be of the size of the pipe itself. Where pipes