Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural: Being Also a Medical Botany of the Southern States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of Trees, Plants and ShrubsWalker, Evans & Cogswell, printers, 1869 - 733 páginas |
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Página 149 - A single operation does not suffice to deprive them of all their tallow; the steaming and sifting are therefore repeated. The article thus procured becomes a solid mass on falling through the sieve; and, to purify it, it is melted and formed into cakes for the press. These receive their form...
Página 3 - The rural cyclopedia, or A general dictionary of agriculture, and of the arts, sciences, instruments, and practice, necessary to the farmer, stockfarmer, gardener, forester, landsteward, farrier, &c.
Página 201 - Journal as a powerful narcotic, capable of producing sleep and relieving pain in an extraordinary manner. It has been used as an anodyne in toothache, curing the pain when introduced upon a dossil of cotton into the carious tooth. In Brazil it has an established reputation as a nervous sedative. Its action seems to be over the...
Página 532 - Skinner, Esq., by the author of this essay, and published in the Farmers' Library, in 1848. When the plant begins to yellow, it is time to put it away. It is cut off close to the ground by turning up the bottom leaves and striking with a tobacco knife, formed of an old scythe — such knives as often are used for cutting corn. Let it lay on the ground for a short time to "fall" or wilt, and then carry it to the tobacco house, when it may be put away in three different modes, by "pegging," " spearing,'"...
Página 325 - The silk, when thrown, is called hard silk, and must be boiled in order to discharge the gum, which otherwise renders it harsh to the touch, and unfit to receive the dye. After boiling about four hours in soaped water, it is washed in clear water to discharge the soap, and is seen to have acquired that glossiness and softness of texture which forms its principal characteristic. The yarn is now ready for weaving.
Página 179 - The unfermented juice of the apple consists of water and a peculiar acid called the malic acid, combined with the saccharine principle. Where a just proportion of the latter is wanting, the liquor will be poor and watery, without body, very difficult to preserve and manage. In the process of fermentation, the saccharine principle is in part converted to alcohol. Where the proportion of the saccharine principle is wanting, the deficiency must be supplied either by the addition of a saccharine substance...
Página 151 - They are generally colored red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of alkanet-root (Anchusatinctoria, brought from Shangtung) into the mixture. Verdigris is sometimes employed to dye them green. The wicks are made of rush, coiled round a stem of coarse grass, the lower part of which is slit to receive the pirn of the candlestick, which is more economical than if put into a socket.
Página 385 - A New and Complete Treatise on the Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather Dressing : Comprising all the Discoveries and Improvements made in France, Great Britain, and the United States. Edited from Notes and Documents of Messrs. Sallerou, Grouvelle, Duval, Dessables, Labarraque, Payen, Rene, De Fontenelle, Malapeyre, etc., etc.
Página 456 - Acting upon this presumption, I immediately commenced giving it to a patient then under my care, in whose case all the vaunted specifics had most signally failed. He improved at once, and was speedily cured. Since that date I have prescribed it in about fifty cases, with unvarying success. It arrests the discharge in about seventy-two hours, and effects a cure in from six to eight days.
Página 151 - Artificial illumination in China is generally procured by vegetable oils ; but candles are also employed by those who can afford it, and for lanterns. In religious ceremonies no other material is used. As no one ventures out after dark without a lantern, and as the gods cannot be acceptably worshipped without candles, the quantity, consumed is very great. With an unimportant exception the candles are always made of what I beg to designate as vegetable stearine.