When the skin is not off, apply scraped raw potatoes. When the skin is off, apply sweet oil and cotton, or linseed oil and lime water made into a paste. Elder ointment is very good: make the ointment of the green bark of the elder; stew in lard.
Linseed oil and lime water mixed in a paste, is also an excellent cure.
TO PICK DUCKS AND GEESE.
Dip them in boiling water; then wrap them for a few moments in flannel, and pick them, holding them by the feet, with the head down; be careful to dry the feathers as soon as possible. A very good way to cure feathers is to put them several times in a brick oven after the bread comes out: then let them lie on the ground for several days, bringing them in at night. This will take away all the disagreeable smell which is so unpleasant in feathers when they are not properly dried.
TO TAKE INK STAINS OUT OF LINEN.
Rub the stain with lemon juice and salt, or a little hot tallow; when the lemon juice and salt are used, it must go in the sun for several hours; then rinse it: new milk boiling hot will take out most kinds of fruit stains; dip in them when dry, and repeat it often.
TO CLEAN CARPETS.
Shake them well; then spread them on a clean floor, and rub them with a soft brush dipped in camphine, or with a piece of cloth: when they are dry, if the grease is not out, repeat the operation.
TO TAKE GREASE SPOTS OUT OF SILK OR WOOLLEN.
Rub the spots with a sponge dipped in camphine; rub, or if the article soiled be silk, spread magnesia on the wrong side; let it remain for a day or two; then brush it off, and the spot will have disappeared.