Paint For Window Glass

Chrome green, ¼ or..; sugar of lead, 1 lb.; ground fine, in sufficient linseed oil to moisten it. Mix to the consistency of cream, and apply with a soft brush. The glass should be well cleaned before the paint is applied. The above quantity is sufficient for about 200 feet of glass.

Durable Paste

Make common flour paste rather thick (by mixing some flour with a little cold water until it is of uniform consistency, and then stir it well while boiling water is being added to It;) add a little brown sugar and corrosive sublimate, which will prevent fermentation, and a few drops of oil of lavender, which will prevent it becoming mouldy. When this paste .dries, it may be used again by dissolving it in water. It will keep for two or three years in a covered vessel.

Dubbing

Resin, 2 lbs.; tallow, 1 lb.; train-oil, 1 gallon.

Blacking For Harness

Bees' wax, ½ lb.; ivory black, 2 oz.: spirits of turpentine, 1 oz.; Prussian blue ground in oil. 1 oz.; copal varnish, ¼ oz. Melt the wax and stir it into the other ingredients before the mixture is quite cold; make it into balls. Hub a little upon a brush, and apply it upon the harness, then polish lightly with silk.

How To Prevent Iron From Rusting

Warm it; then rub with white wax: put it again to the tire until the wax has pervaded the entire surface. Or, immerse tools or bright work in boiled linseed oil and allow it to dry upon them.

Paper for Draughtsmen, etc - Powdered tragacanth. 1 part; water, 10 parts; dissolve, and strain through clean gauze, then lav it smoothly upon the paper, previously stretched upon a board. This paper will take cither oil or water-colors.

How To Remove Old Ironmould

Remoisten the part stained with ink. remove this by the use of muriatic acid diluted by 5 or 6 times its weight of water, when the old and new stain will be removed.

Pastiles For Fumigating

Gum arabic, 2 oz.; charcoal powder, 5 oz.; cascarilla bark, powdered ¾ oz; saltpetre, ¼ drachm. Mix together with water, and make into shape.

For Writing Upon Zinc Labels - Horticultural

Dissolve loo gr. of chloride of platinum in a pint of water; add little mucilage and lamp-black. Or, sal-ammoniac, 1 dr; verdigris, 1 dr.; lamp-back, ½ dr.; water, 10 drs. Mix.

Booth's Grease For Railway Axles

Water, 1 gall,; clean tallow, 3 lbs.; palm oil. 6 lbs.; common soda, ½ lb.; or, tallow, 8 lbs.; palm oil, 10 lbs. To be heated to about 212°, and to be well stirred until it cools to 70.