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4i8] DEW with the bed J but that side, which is next the wall, may be wholly covered with the curtain. CYDER.— Beside the different motics of fining cyder, already stated, we shall add the following recipes : 1. When the fermentation is nearly completed, let 2 or 3 quarts o[neat cyder, or of French brandy, be mixed with 2oz. of pulverized alum, 3 lbs, of sugar candy, and 4 or 5oz. of stone-roll sulphur: to these ingredients a little cochineal may be added ; and the whole, being tied up in a bag, should be suspended in a hogslicad of cyder. D I A tin the liquor become perfcaf/ clear/ aad tit ft>r nau. 2. i»eat up the white» of eight egga, togellier with their shells, in a bason ; mix with tlicm two or three handfuls of bean-floi>r, iinely sifted; half a pintof spirit of wine; and a sufficient quantity of honey or molasses, so that the whole may form a thick liquid ; which is to be stirred into a hogshead of racked cyder. — Havint; had no' experience of eitlier ot' tliese preparations, we can only recommend the latter, as being less expensive, and more conducive to health. D. DEW-BERRY BUSH, or Ru- ins caes'Us, L. is an indigenous shrub, gr, jwing in woods and hedges, where its white prickly flowers ap- pear in June or July, and are suc- ceeded by dark-blue berries. — Al- though this shrub isoneofthemost troublesome on loamy soils, because its branches uncommonly spread over the surface of the ground, yet it* sweet trait imparts an agreeable flavour to home-made wines. — Nor are tlfcse berries less useful in the distillation of spirituous liquors j as well as for dyeing unhoiled wool ot" a fine Hue colour : for this pur- fWBC, the expressed juice should be previously mixed with alum and copperas ; but. en adding a small proportion of galls, the shade may be rendei'cd niuch darker. — If this niice be combined, in a marble mortar, with the fourti) part of lime, verdigrcase, and sal ammo- niac, then su.spemled in bladders, it will form a purple pigment. which may beef service toartists.— * BoHMEU states, that the dew-berry bush Iras been usefully employed in tamnng leather. DIABEIES, in farriery, de- notes a profuse staling of horses : it is generally occasioned by toe- violent exercise, or by over-strain- ing, &c. When this malady attacks old horses, or those of a weak con- stitution, it is seldom curable ; because they rapidly lose their Acm' and nppetite, grow fecbhe, exhibi? a staring coat, and ulfimately perish. On the contrary, youngf horses, sub- je6t to this disease, niay mostly be cured by frequent blocnl-lrtting, in smaH quantities ; and the following deco6tion has often been adminis- tered witii success. Take of Peru- vian bark 4 oz. : Bistort and Tor- mentil-root, of each 2 oz. i boit these ingredients in two gallons of }in»e -water, till one half be evapo- rated: a pint of this liquor sliculi be given three timus a day ; ciut ' bein-;