Black Reviver

1. Bruised nutgalls 1 lb., logwood 1 lb., water 5 quarts; boil to 4 quarts, and add sulphate of iron 4 oz.; dissolve, and strain. When cold, add 8 oz. of ox gall.

2. Galls 3 oz., logwood 1 oz., copperas, iron filings, and sumach, of each 1 oz., vinegar 2 pints. - Gray's Supplement.

Black Japan

True asphaltum 1 1/2 oz., boiled linseed oil 4 pints, burnt umber 4 oz. Heat together till the whole is incorporated, remove from the fire, and when sufficiently cool, add as much oil of turpentine as will bring it to a proper consistence.

Bleaching Liquid

Solutions of chloride of lime, and chloride of soda, are sold for this purpose, with directions for use. The following is also used: Mix 3 lbs. of common salt and 1 lb. of black oxide of manganese with as much water as will form a paste. Put the mixture into a retort, and add 2 lbs. of oil of vitriol previously diluted with 4 lbs. of water. Pass the gas into a solution of 1 lb. of common pearlash, or 11 oz. of caustic potash, in 6 lbs. of water. The retort may be placed, after a short period, in hot water, to extricate the remaining gas. In bleaching cotton by chloride of lime, 1 lb. is dissolved in 3 gallons of water for each pound of cloth; it is afterwards passed through diluted hydrochloric or sulphuric acid (1 part of acid to 30 of water), and then washed.

Blights, Remedies fob.

Apple-tree canker

Having brushed off the white down and the red stain underneath it, anoint the places with a mixture of train oil and Scotch snuff.

White Blight of Apple-tree

Apply a decoction of foxglove mixed with fresh cow-dung into a paste.

Sulphated Boxes

To a bushel of ground bones, add from 10 to 14 lbs. of oil of vitriol, previously mixed with half its bulk of water. [It is sometimes mixed with an equal weight of salt and a sufficient quantity of bran. Turnip seed may be mixed with this compound and the two sown together.]

Bookbinders' Stains, for Leather

- Black. A solution of 1 part of sulphate of iron in 6 of water. Blue. A solution of indigo. (See Chemic Blue.) Brown. A solution of pearlash, or of common soda.

Boot Powder

Finely powdered French chalk, or Venetian talc.

Unfermented Bread

See Dietetic Articles, further hack.

Bronzing Ball

See Balls (Heel).

Brunswick Black

Melt asphaltum, and add to it half its weight of boiled linseed oil; mix, and when sufficiently cool, add enough oil of turpentine to bring it to the proper consistence.

How To Preserve Butter

Powder finely, and mix together, 2 parts of the best salt, 1 of loaf sugar, and 1 of nitre. To each pound of butter, well cleansed from the milk, add 1 oz. of this compound. It should not be used under a month. [Butter that has an unpleasant flavour, is said to be improved by the addition of 2 1/2 drs. of bicarbonate of soda to 3 lbs. of butter. A turnipy flavour may be prevented by only feeding the cows with turnips immediately after milking them.]

Butter of Antimony

The liquid chloride of antimony, commercially known by this name, is usually made by dissolving crude or roasted black antimony in hydrochloric acid with the addition of a little nitric acid. It usually contains pernitrate of iron.