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a soft cloth, and again with a clean cloth. Do this every other day and your
table will soon be fit to use for breakfast or tea without fear of spoiling the
polish; when you wash it off it should be done with plain warm water, as soap
will injure it. It is best not to use a table till it has had several rubbings
with the oil, and then apply it once a week. The pores being filled with the
application it becomes hard. Always give a table that is in use a rub with a dry
cloth every morning.
For Filtering Water.
Put a thick layer of pounded charcoal, (say six inches,) at the bottom of a
large earthen flower-pot; over this, lay a bed of fine sand, which has been
washed, (to prevent its giving a taste to the water;) pour the water in the
filterer and put a large stone pitcher under to receive it.
ON A LARGER SCALE.
Prepare a tight barrel by charring it on the inside, (by having some hickory or
oak shavings burnt in it,) then put in half a peck of quick lime, and fill it
with water. After the lime water has stood in the barrel for two weeks, it will
be ready for use.
This preparation of the barrel is necessary to remove the acid from the wood,
which would communicate an unpleasant taste to the water.
Fit a partition in the barrel, (perforated with many holes,) about three inches
from the bottom of the barrel, and having put in a tube, to go down from the top
through the partition nearly to the bottom, put on the perforated partition some
broken charcoal, then finer charcoal a foot thick, then about a foot of clean
washed sand.
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