The national course in home economics

Another way to color yarn, cloth or carpet rags is to boil a large iron kettle full of butternut bark four hours; take out the bark, put in a spoonful of copperas. If you wish a black put in more copperas or a little blue vitriol ( too much vitriol rots the goods). Then while the dye is boiling, put in the goods and keep stirring and once every few minutes lift the goods with a stick into the air, then put them under. And keep watching and moving them until you obtain the desired shade. Do not fold or pack them too tight, or they will spot. Sarah A. Bixby. TO COLOR SILK LILAC. For three pounds of silk take five and one-quarter pounds of archil. Mix well with the liquor, letting it boil fifteen minutes. When you dip the silk do so quickly, then let it cool and wash it in soft water, and a very pretty violet will be the result. J. F. G. TO COLOR WOOL SCARLET. One ounce of cream of tartar, one ounce of cochineal well powdered, five ounces of muriate of tin. This will do two pounds of goods. Boil the dye and put in the goods. Work briskly for fifteen minutes, then boil one and one-half hours, moving the goods about while boiling. Wash in cold water and dry in a shady place. M. H, TO COLOR WOOL BLUE. Use three ounces of cream of tartar and five ounces of alum. Boil two pounds of goods in this one hour, then place them in warm water which has extract of Indigo in it and boil till the tint is right increasing the amount of indigo if necessary. . D. B. TO COLOR WOOL PURPLE. Every pound of wool goods will require two ounces of cudbear. Rinse the article to be dyed thoroughly in soapsuds, then dissolve cudbear in hot suds, not quite boiling, but near it and soak the goods till of the right color. Rinse in alum water. T. C. TO COLOR SILK GREEN. Take equal quantities of yellow oak and hickory bark. Make a strong bath by boiling. Add a small quantity of the extract of indigo. M. SALMON COLOR. Take to each pound of goods one-quarter of a pound of annotto, and one-quarter of a pound of soap. Rinse goods in warm water, then boil them in the mixture one-half hour. The depth of shade is determined by the amount of annotto. F. D. C. TO COLOR COTTON SKY BLUE. Four ounces of vitriol (blue) to each three pounds of goods. Boil it a few moments, then dip the goods three hours. Pass them through a strong lime water. If they are then put through a solution of prussiate of potash a beautiful brown will result. S. A. B. TO COLOR COTTON YELLOW. Take one-half pound of sugar of lead and dissolve it in hot water. Dissolve one-eighth of a pound of bichromate of potash. Dip first in the lead, then in the potash till it is as bright a yellow as you want it. This amount is enough for three pounds of goods, To make them bright orange, dip according to above dye, and then dip in very strong boiling alum water. Wring out, and dip in clear, hot rain water. S. A. B. TO COLOR BROWN. Take one pound of catechu extract and one-half ounce of vitriol; dissolve in rain water; in the catechu put water enough to wet your goods. Color in an iron kettle. Then put in your vitriol. Wet goods in soapsuds before putting in the dye. This is a fast color. Mrs. A. S. TO COLOR COTTON BLUE.