Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — To Dress Ordinary Hides. [ARTICLE]

To Dress Ordinary Hides.

To dress ordinary hides, such as coon, muskrat, and even sheep skins, ft is only necessary to stretch them on a board, with the hair or jyool side down, and then smear the upper surface with a paste made of equal parts of alum and salt dissolved in a weak solution of sulphuric acid and water, adding sufficient wheat bran to thicken the paste. The proportions should be about two ounces of alum, two of salt, and one drachm of the acid to each pint of water used 1 in Making the paste. Spread this paste over the flesh side of the skin and leave it in two or three days, then tforape off, and work the skin until it is soft As for dressing skins with the haiAremoved, it depends somewhat upon the use you are to make of the dressed bides, and their kind, whether thick or thiir. If you want the skins to cut up for strings, they would be dressed differently than if to be made into gloves or other similar articles. —[New York Sun.

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