A brief 1872 household-hints item giving a recipe for "eau écarlate," a solution made from sal ammoniac, nitric acid, pure tin and water, used to revive faded scarlet cloth. It gives quantities and mixing order and notes that further dilution may be needed.

A short 1872 household-hints item on cleaning a sewing machine with trotter oil, the fat rendered from sheep's feet. It gives the method for preparing the oil by boiling trotters and separating the fat. It then describes working the oil through the bearings by running the machine and wiping away the dirt until the fat comes out clean.

A short 1872 household-hints item from People's Friend giving a method for cleaning silk dresses with potato water. It describes grating potatoes into cold spring water, letting it settle for 48 hours, pouring off the clear liquid, dipping the silk, wiping it flat with a towel, and ironing on the soiled side. The writer says the method also works on woollens and mourning cottons.

A one-sentence household tip from an 1872 periodical explaining that mildew in cotton cloth can be removed with a solution of chloride of lime. It warns that the fabric must be rinsed thoroughly in clean water as soon as the spots disappear, or the cloth will be destroyed.

A short 1872 household-advice item giving a recipe for scouring tartan shawls, suggested as safe for Paisley plaids. It describes making a soap jelly with turpentine and hartshorn, washing, rinsing in cold water and then salt water to prevent colours running, and mangling and ironing with a cool iron.

A mid-19th-century periodical article describing sheep farming in the province of Buenos Aires for prospective British emigrants. It covers the growth of the wool trade, the importation of Merino, Leicester and Cotswold sheep, and share-farming arrangements (medianero, or halves, and "on thirds"). It also discusses scab and tobacco dip, cattle farming, Indian raids on the frontier, the Tandil massacre, climate and the 1871 yellow fever epidemic.

A short recipe from the periodical People's Friend for making cloth or cambric transparent. It gives a varnish of powdered white resin dissolved in drying nut-oil, with Venice turpentine added. The varnish is applied to both sides of stretched cloth, and the result is suited to window-blinds and to transparencies painted in oil colours.

A short newspaper paragraph from 1872 reporting on the low wages of weavers in Germany. It gives weekly earnings for silk weavers and much lower pay for coarse linen weavers in the Bolkenheim district and for linen and cotton weavers in the Gaitz district.