Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts: In all the Useful and Domestic Arts (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE
TO TilE NEW AND REVISED EDITION
OF OCTOBER, 1865.
I~ preparing a new edition of this popular work, the Editors have endeavored
to incorporate all the improvements in the various branches, which have been iutro.
duced, since the publication of the last edition. Much of the work has been
entirely Tc-written, and new articles have been added ou J)hotography, Pyrotech.
nics, Angling, Pisciculture, etc. The matter has DOt. been simply scissored from
newspapers, but carefully digested from standard authorities, the scientific journals,
and fl'OI11 the practiC'.a1 knowledge of the Editors and contributors. The Editors
have to acknowledge valuablc assistance from gentlemen, eminent in the uepan.
menta of Agriculture, Horticulture, Wine-making, Perfumery, Cemcnts, Engraving,
Photography, Angling, Tanning, etc. '!'he work, it is believed, will be found
more reliable and thorough tl1an anyone of its class now in print. The Miscellaneous
departmont is almost entirely new,

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; [FOR DETAILS, SEE INDEX, AT CLOSE OF THE VOLUME]; AGRICULTURE; MANURE; WHEAT; DRAINAGE; SUGAR • •; COTTON AND TOBACCO; SILK-~WORM; HORTICULTUHE ; BUDDING AND GRAFTING; FRGIT • • • • •; INSECTS AND DISEASES OF TREES; KEEPING FRUIT; FLOWER GARDENING • • •; RURAL AND DmlESTIC ECONOMY; DAIRY 'YORK •; MANAGEllENT OF BEES; FARRIIc;RY ; DISEASES OF HORSES; DOGS; " HOGS; " SUEEP; " CATTLE; MEDICINE •; DISE~SES; CHOLERA; ACCIDENTS; 'Vou~ms; FRACTURES; DISLOCATIONS; A~lPUTATIONS; DROWNING; POISO:-lS; MEDICINES •; DISEASES OF FE)[ALES; DISEASES OF CHILDREN; DOMESTIC MEDICINES; IIYGIENE • •; Rl'LES FOR HEALTH; TEETH •; CULIN ARY