A pailful of lye, with a piece of copperas half as big as a hen's egg
boiled in it, will color a fine nankin color, which will never wash
out. This is very useful for the linings of bed-quilts, comforters,
&c. Old faded gowns, colored in this way, may be made into good
petticoats. Cheap cotton cloth may be colored to advantage for
petticoats, and pelisses for little girls.

A very beautiful nankin color may likewise be obtained from
birch-bark, set with alum. The bark should be covered with water,
and boiled thoroughly in brass or tin. A bit of alum half as big as
a hen's egg is sufficient. If copperas be used instead of alum, slate
color will be produced.

Tea-grounds boiled in iron, and set with copperas, make a very good
slate color.

Log-wood and cider, in iron, set with copperas, makes a good black.
Rusty nails, or any rusty iron, boiled in vinegar, with a small bit of
copperas, makes a good black,--black ink-powder done in the same way
answers the same purpose.

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MEAT CORNED, OR SALTED, HAMS, &C.