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To preserve a Granary from Insects and Weasels.
Make the floor of Lombardy poplars.
To destroy Crickets.
Put Scotch snuff upon the holes where they come out.
DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS.
To clean Calico Furniture when taken down for the Summer.
Shake off the loose dust, then lightly brush with a small long-haired furniture
brush; after which wipe it closely with clean flannels, and rub it with dry
bread.
If properly done, the curtains will look nearly as well as at first, and if the
colour be not light, they will not require washing for years.
Fold in large parcels, and put carefully by.
While the furniture remains up, it should be preserved from the sun and air as
much as possible, which injure delicate colours; and the dust may be blown off
with bellows.
By the above mode curtains may be kept clean, even to use with the linings newly
dipped.
To clean Plate.
Boil an ounce of prepared hartshorn-powder in a quart of water; while on the
fire, put into it as much plate as the vessel will hold; let it boil a little,
then take it out, drain it over the sauce-pan, and dry it before the fire. Put
in more, and serve the same, till you have done. Then put into the water some
clean linen rags till all be soaked up. When dry, they will serve to clean the
plate, and are the very best things to clean the brass locks and finger-plates
of doors. When the plate is quite dry, it must be rubbed bright with leather.
This is a very nice mode. In many plate-powders there is a mixture of
quicksilver, which is very injurious; and, among other disadvantages, it makes
silver so brittle, that from a fall it will break.
To clean Looking-glasses.
Remove the fly-stains, and other soil, by a damp rag; then polish with woollen
cloth and powder blue.
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