The new family receipt book : containing one thousand truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy.

  • Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby, 1745-1828.
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The new family receipt book : containing one thousand truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    knitting needle; then take two sticks about a yard long, and lay them on your dresser, with a notch cut at each end of your sticks, placing the two pins, stuck on the corner of the trencher, on the notches of the two sticks, so that one corner of your trencher may lie about an inch upon your dresser or place that the mice come to; then let the corner that lies opposite to this be baited with some butter and oatmeal, plas- tered fast on, and when the mice run off the dresser to the butter, it will tip them into a vessel full of water, which you must place under the trencher, in which they will be drowned. That your trencher may not tip over, with a little sealing-wax and a thread seal the string to the dresser and trencher, and it will remain in good order for weeks or months. 97. New, simple, and effectual Method of destroying Rats. A few years ago, the corn-mill at Glossop was very much infested with rats. A quantity of barley, which lay on the chamber floor, was hourly visited by some of them. The miller one day going to drive them away, as usual, happened to catch one of them under his hat, which he killed; he then singed all the hair off its body, &c. until its skin, tail, and legs, became stiff by the operation. In this condition he set it upon its feet by the side of a heap of barley, where it stood, with pricked-up ears and tail, for some time : after this, no rat dared to come near it; and in a short space of time the mill was cleared of those depredators, and has continued so ever since. 80. Dr. Taylor s cheap and efficacious Method of destroying Rats. [Communicated to the Manchester Agricultural Society.] In or near the place frequented by these vermin, place on a slate or tile one or two table-spoonfuls of