Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1920 — Short Story About Shellac. [ARTICLE]

Short Story About Shellac.

Shellac is the joint product of insects -and plants and comes from India. The lac insects are about 1-25 of an inch long, a bright red in color. They suck the juices of plants, digest them and exude them in the form of resin, which soon encases the whole insect When the young insects have swarmed out the resin fas Scraped from the brandies, ground, washed mixed with colophony and orpiment cooked slowly and drawn out into thf thin sheets we know as shellac,