How to Make a Simple Water Filter - The Small Filter - excerpt from the book "The Scientific American Boy" by A. Russell Bond
How to Keep Birds Away From Garden - A Garden-Bed ScarecrowA very neat and successful scarecrow for garden beds can be made as follows: A number of corks are procured,…
How to Make a Secret Compartment in Ordinary Table DrawerIt is frequently desired to have some handy place for storing valuables where there is but little chance of discovering them.…
The accompanying sketch shows a handy device for turning up and unscrewing the covers on glass fruit jars. The loop is slipped over the cover and the handle turned in…
Where there is but a small quantity of corn to be shelled a sheller can be made of a few scraps of wood usually found on a farm. A block of wood having a sloping notch cut from one end is mounted on three legs as shown.
One of the most distressing sides of botanical study is the short life of the colors in flowers. Those who have found the usual method of preserving plants by pressure…
An apparatus for distilling water can be very easily made from galvanized pipe fittings. The outer cooling jacket A is a piece of 1-in. pipe, 2 ft. long, threaded on…
Excerpt from the book:MOTHER'S' REMEDIESOver One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada.By DR. T. J. RITTERPUBLISHED BY G.H. FOOTE PUB. CO. DETROIT MICH…
From the Following Recipes and Formulae, Hundreds and Even Thousands of Candies Can Be Made.Excerpt from the book:MOTHER'S' REMEDIESOver One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United…
When a ring cannot be removed easily from the finger, take a string or thread and draw one end through between the ring and the flesh.Coil the other end of…