USEFUL KNOWLEDGE A WORK DEVOTED TO THD COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES, RURAL AND DOMESTIC ECOS AGRICULTURE, AND THE USEFUL ARTS. ETY LIBR CIETY "Agriculture, the basis of our strength; Commerce, the patron of our labour, BY JAMES MEASE, M. D. Secretary to the Agricultural Society of Philadelphia, Member of the American West of England Society. VOL. III. PHILADELPHIA': PUBLISHED BY DAVID HOGAN, ALSO SOLD BY Whiting and Watson, New-York; Farrand and Green, Albany; Thomas and PUBLIC LIBRARY 265861B ASTOR, LENOX AND PILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1944 L District of Pennsylvania, to wit. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the nineteenth day of March, in the thirty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1813, David Hogan, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Archives of Useful Knowledge, a Work devoted to Commerce, Manufactures, Rural and Domestic Economy, Agriculture, and the Useful Arts. Agri. culture, the basis of our strength; Commerce, the patron of our labour, and Manufactures, the resource for our wants-May these interests ever be united in support of the wealth, industry, and independence of the republic." By James Mease, M. D. Secretary to the Agricultural Society of Philadelphia, Member of the American Philosophical Society, and Honorary Member of the Bath and West of England Society. Vol. III." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprie tors of such Copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints." On Dyeing Woollen Cloth Scarlet Papers on Rural and Domestic Economy. 42 Methods to fix Chalks on Paper, 43 Improved French method of manu- 45 To find the specific gravity of any ib Fluid, On the use of straw to Strawberries, 46 Experiments in freezing water un- On the Economy of Bees, On the unequal duration of Candles, 57 On the preservation of Vegetables, 97 |