Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — How to Make Good Ink. [ARTICLE]

How to Make Good Ink.

The following recipe is claimed to be 230 years old, and is said to make an ink of peculiarly lasting qualities: Bain water, one pint; galls, bruised, one and one-half ounces; green copperas, six drachms; gum Arabic, ten drachms. The galls must be coarsely powdered and put in a bottle, and the other ingredients and water added. The bottle securely stoppered is placed in the light (sun if possible), and its contents are stirred occasionally until the gum and copperas is dissolved; after which it is enough to shake the bottle daily, and in the course of a month or six weeks it will be fit for use. Add ten drops of carbolic acid to the contents of the bottle, as it effectually prevents the formation and growth of mold, without any detriment to the quality oi the ink. The tobacco crop of the State of Indiana for 188-*1 aggregated in valu® $770,611.