Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Agriculture,

2 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Sugar, Tobacco, Cotton

in each tree, near each other, two feet above the while the leaves are pliable, strip them off, noting ground and only half an inch beyond…

Worms

Procure eggs in February and March, and choose those of a pale slate or clay color; avoid all which are yellow, as they are imperfect. Keep…

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