To secure a gloss when ironing shirts,
take of raw starch one ounce; gum arabic,
one drachm; white of egg or blood albumen
half an ounce; so.uble glass, quarter of an
ousce; water, 9 . Make the starch into
a fine cream, dissolve the gum in a little
hot water, cool and mix it with the albu
mer; and beat up the mixture with the
siatch liquid, Uen add the water class (so
lutiob) and shake together.. ..Moisten the
studied linen with a cloth dipped In this
liquid, and use a polishing iron U develop
the gloss.
AGBICULTTJRAlt.
Test iso Cexam. The test adopted by
creamery men to find the butter value of
cream collected from the dairy farms, con
sists in churning each batch of creaii sep
arately, and if it does not produce cne
pound of butter from two inches, from an
eight irch can, it is said to "fall shortn
and the patron is liable to the imputation
of dif honesty in skimming, lhat there
are dishonest practices resorted to on some
farms, is undoubtly true, but it is also true
that the test adopted by the creamery is
not always a sure indication that cream ha
been tampered with to the detriment ol the
creamery. Where the patron does a she re
of the rkimming himself, he may st!r in a
quantity of milk to increase the measure,
or stir in soda to cause an effervescence
and thus increase the bulk of the cream.
