If the animal manifests a feverish condition of the system, give half an ounce of saltpeter twice a day, continuing it several days or a week.
In cases of rheumatism, one-half ounce of saltpeter may be added.
If in solution and given on an empty stomach, as little as 3 ounces of saltpeter (nitrate of potassium) may be fatal to a cow.
More of the Chile saltpeter (nitrate of soda) is required to cause serious trouble.
If Epsom salt is not at hand, saltpeter (1 ounce) should be used for several days.
Early European powder "recipes" called for equal parts of the three ingredients, but gradually the amount of saltpeter was increased until Tartaglia reported the proportions to be 4-1-1.
The match was usually a 3-strand cotton rope, soaked in a solution of saltpeter and otherwise chemically treated with lead acetate and lye to burn very slowly--about 4 or 5 inches an hour.
But both are preservatives; the sugar improves the flavor of the bacon, and the saltpeter gives it greater firmness and a finer color, if used sparingly.
The sides, hams and shoulders are laid on a table and rubbed thoroughly with salt and saltpeter (one ounce to five pounds of salt), clear saltpeter being rubbed in around the ends of the bones.
If sugar and saltpeter are used, first apply about a teaspoonful of pulverized saltpeter on the flesh side of the hams and shoulders, and then taking a little sugar in the hand, apply it lightly to the flesh surface of all the pieces.
Neither the sugar nor the saltpeter is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the meat, and they are often omitted.
The saltpeter gives the pink look canned tongues have; the salt and sugar flavor nicely.
In pickling the hams they are first vigorously rubbed with saltpeter and then with salt.
The saltpeter caves along the White River can furnish sufficient saltpeter for the entire Southwest.
The saltpeter manufactories along the banks of this stream were of great importance to the Rebels in the Southwest, and their destruction seriously reduced the supplies of gunpowder in the armies of Arkansas and Louisiana.
It gave much annoyance to the Rebels by destroying the saltpeter works on the upper portion of White River.
For miles from the entrance saltpeter workers have dug down to a level where the amount of loose rock rendered further excavation too expensive.
During the Civil War the floor of the lower or main cave was also dug up for making saltpeter and much of the leached earth piled in front of the cave.
But no ray of daylight penetrates it, and as a great amount of saltpeter was made here during the War of 1812 scarcely any of the earth retains its original position.
TICK CREEK CAVE In a ravine which joins Tick Creek about 2 miles from where the latter flows into the Gasconade, and about 12 miles north of Arlington, is a large cave known as the Saltpeter Cave.
The saltpeter miners started at the entrance and removed all the earth lying from 3 to 6 feet higher than the present floor, which is nearly level.
In the front portion of the main cavern the dry earth is 5 feet deep in its thickest part; but as it has all been leached for obtaining the saltpeter or niter diffused through it, none of it is in the original position.
The distinct lamination of the saltpeter earth, as shown in the "face," proves it to have been laid down slowly and intermittently in still water.
Early in the Civil War a large amount of saltpeter was manufactured here.
Bushby poured out a handful of saltpeter and charcoal upon a leaf torn from a back number of the Scientific Weekly and slid it across the table towards him.
He now turns his attention to chemistry, experiments in the art of making saltpeter cheaply, publishes his researches, and organizes a company to gratuitously supply the public magazines with powder.
It is said that the necessary tin and saltpeter can be obtained cheaply and in abundance.
Second: A ship will be sent to Malaca to bring the tin and saltpeter needed in addition to that procured in China and powder, and a number of slaves to aid in the foundry work and other labors.
No saltpeter was in store at any Southern point; it was stored wholly at the North.
A refinery of saltpeter was established near Nashville during the summer, which received the niter from its vicinity, and from the caves in East and Middle Tennessee.
Boil and skim, add a pinch of saltpeter and tablespoonful of sugar for each pint of salt--the pinches must not be large.
But use very little saltpeter on the joints this time--on pain of making them too hard as to their lean.
They were laid there by the saltpeter miners to convey the water from the cascade at the entrance down to the leaching vats that are now pointed out to us in the Rotunda.
Gratz and Wilkins, who sent Mr. Archibald Miller from Philadelphia to manage saltpeter works for them during the War of 1812, at a time when an embargo cut off foreign sources of supply.
A few steps carry us past the saltpeter vats, through the Rotunda, and the iron gate is unlocked to let us into the vestibule, whence we climb the stone stairs to daylight.
But now we advance along the worn cart-road made by the saltpeter miners, strewn by their ancient log-conduits, which are strangely preserved during the century that has elapsed since some of them were first brought hither.
They burn chemical fires at a point near the saltpeter vats, some five hundred feet to the rear of us, and the contour of the walls brings out a statuesque effect which is aptly styled "Martha Washington's Statue.
Somebody has scattered little piles of saltpeterall over the summit.
In the morning Kate drove down to the camp at daylight the few sheep that had not eaten enough of the saltpeter to kill them, or had missed it altogether--only a small percentage of the valuable herd that had started up the mountain.
He was also to fetch saltpeter and metals which were wanted for the royal magazines of Manila.
Saltpeter men were appointed by Parliament in 1643 and later times to search and dig for saltpeter in pigeon houses, stables, and outhouses, but not dwelling, shops, or milkhouses.
Five cents worth of pulverized saltpeter put into a bottle with sufficient olive oil to nearly dissolve it.
It's Persian, and I had it cooled in the saltpeter tent especially for this evening.
Sleeping hammocks were lashed away, but the space was airless, already sultry from the morning sun, and the rancid tang of sweat mixed with fresh saltpeter from the gunpowder caught in Hawksworth's mouth, bittersweet.
In Rockcastle County, Bee Cliff rears its summit three hundred and fifty-five feet above the river; there are also a number of saltpeter caves where large quantities of saltpeter were manufactured during the War of 1812.
The largest, called Great Saltpeter Cave, with its many rooms, some of which cover an area of several acres, with its subterranean river and weird grandeur, is a rival in all respects but size to the noted Mammoth Cave of Edmonson County.
I received letters from Brecknock; that the saltpeter man was dead and buried the Sunday before the messenger came.
This saltpeter man had digged in the Colledge Church for his work, bearing too bold upon his commission.
We use good sugar in curing our hams, the best quality of saltpeter and some salt.
If you desire to have it burne cleare, then take of saltpeter one pound, three ounces of gunnepowder, brimstone halfe a pound.
Take ofsaltpeter twelue ounces, gunpowder twenty ounces, and charcoale three ounces, quicke brimstone and scales of yron, of each one ounce, mingle them.
Take of gunpowder fowre pounds, saltpeter one pound, charcoale fowre ounces, mingle them together.
Take saltpeter one pound, brimstone halfe a pound, gunpowder fowre ounces, this must be bound up in paper or little ragges, and afterwards primed.
Take of gunpowder fowre poundes, saltpeter one pound, charcoale fowre ounces, brimstone halfe an ounce, mingle them together.
Take of gunpowder one pound and one ounce, saltpeter fowre ounces, brimstone three ounces and a halfe, charcoale one ounce, mingle them.
Take of gunpowder two pound fiue ounces, of saltpeter halfe a pound, of charcoale six ounces, of brimstone and yron scales, of each two ounces, mingle them.
The Saltpeter is the Soul, the Sulphur the Life, and the Coales the Body of it.
Take of gunpowder fowre ounces and a halfe, saltpeter one ounce, mixe them together.
If it had not been for the saltpeter from this cave the Battle of New Orleans would have been lost, for from this mineral gunpowder that saved the day was made.
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