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farmers. This is only a surmise.

Questions
As a vast amount of our personal
comforts & purity depends upon
soap, and as that important subject
had not been thoroughly discussed
for a whole month, the members
felt excusable for what they had to
say on that theme this evening, a
novice in the profession ventured to ask:
1^st Shall we boil the Lye & grease to
make soft soap? Ans — 6 say boil, 3 say
not, 2 don't know after all they have heard,
1 (a store keeper) says buy Babbits soap
& 1 says it makes no difference provided
you stir it with a sassafras stick.

2^d How to make lye strong? Ans.
run it through the ashes again

3^d What to do about hornets in
summer? Ans: Let them alone & they
will go home wagging their stingers