Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

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.

Bees And Their Management

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

By E. S. Tupper

Bee-keeping is now admitted, both in this country and in Europe, to be one of the most profitable rural pursuits. Perhaps in no other…

Farriery (Attention is called)

[Attention is called to valuable articles upon RINDERPEST and TRICHINE, on pages 467, 468, 469, which could not be finished in time to…

Horses and Cattle

sometimes bishop the teeth of old horses; that is, ❘ lips of the wound, especially if it be a clean cut, scoop them out, to imitate the…

Farriery (Put into a well-glazed earthen)

Put into a well-glazed earthen vessel 2 ounces of beeswax; melt it over a clear fire, and add 2 ounces of resin; when that is melted, put…

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