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stir all the time, and take it out every hour to give it air; dry it in the sun,
and the next day boil it in soap-suds. This will dye six pounds of cotton a deep
blue. After it is done, you may put in as much more, and it will dye a pale
blue.
To Keep Apples in Winter.
Pick them carefully, so as not to bruise them; put them in an out-house, exposed
to the north, either in boxes, or barrels, or lying in heaps; after they have
been several weeks in this situation, pick them over and put them in barrels
which should be headed; if the weather is not severe, let them remain in this
cold situation as long as it will be safe, without their being frozen, then
remove them to the cellar. Do not shut the windows till the severe weather comes
on. Some persons pack them in dry chaff, or sand, and put them in barrels and
boxes in a cool garret.
Directions for Making Matresses.
If you have an old curled hair matress, you can make two, that will be equally
useful as those that are composed of curled hair, by using cotton and hackled
corn husks, in alternate layers with the hair.
Some persons use a quantity of green corn, and save all the husks, and strip
them with a fork, or hackle, and spread them on a garret floor to dry; they are
nicer in this state than prepared from the dry husk; but if you have not
sufficient, take the dry husks from corn that has been stripped off the top and
blade in the field, and have it hackled as flax; for one matress, have as much
as will fill two flour barrels tightly packed; sixteen pounds of refuse cotton,
(such as is sometimes sold very low at the factories,) and half the
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