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How to make and set traps : Including hints on how to trap moles, weasels, otter, rats, squirrels and birds. Also how to cure skins / by J. Harrington Keene.
Author
Keene, J. Harrington.
Date Added
9 January 2014
Format
Journal
Language
English
Publish Date
1902
Publisher
New York : Frank Tousey
Series
Ten cent handbooks > no. 40
Source
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
Ten cent handbooks -- no. 40
Topic
Trapping > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Hunting > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Hides and skins > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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HOW TO MAKE AND SET TRAPR, 61
and let it lay one day. It is then to be taken out and wrung
_—rolled between two logs—or even a wringing machine will
‘be better. Then stretch it until it is dry, in the sun is best, -
or by a hot fire. Then oil it thoroughly with any oil con-
venient. ,
It should then be treated to the same bath of suds (heated
quite warm), and lay another day. Then pull it out and dry
as before. Any cil will do, but good fresh butter is better
than anything else, When the skin is dry rub it with ochre,
which will give it a splendid yellow color.
TANNING AND BUFFING FOR DEER SkIN GLOVES.—For
each skin take a bucket of water and put into it 1 quart of
~ jime; let the skin or skins lay in from 3 to 4 days; then
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_ rmge in clean water, hair and grain; then soak them in cold
water to get out the glue; now scour or pouna in good soap
suds for half an hour; after which take. white vitriol, alum
ard salt, one tablespoon of each to a skin; this wil! be dis-
solved in sufficient waver to cover the skin and remain in it~
“for 24 hours; wring out as dry as convenient, and spread on
with a brush 1-2 pint of currier’s oil, and hang in the eun
-about two days; after. which you will scour out the oil .
with soap suds, and hang out again until perfectly dry;
then pull and work them until they are soft; and if a rea-
souable time does not make them soft, scour out in suds
again as before, until complete.
The oil-may be saved by pouring or taking it from the top
~ of the suds, if left standing a short time. The buff color is
given by spreading yellow ochre. evenly over the surface of
the skin, when finished, rubbing it-in well with 2 brush.
DYEING FOR. BucKSKIN, (Buff.)—5 parts of whiting to 2
parts of ochre (yellow), and mix them with water to a paste;
make into cakes and dry.~ When a dressed skin is dry. rub
one of the balls over the surface; rub the powder in. Take
a piece of sand-paper and raise a nap on the leather by going
over it. © (Black.)—Take clear logwood; after it is dry use
coperas water to blacken it. Be careful and not use too
much. (Dark Brown.)—5 pounds of oak bark; 4 pounds
of fustic; 14 ounces of logwood. Use alum water (strong)
to make it strike in. (Drab.J—Mix blue clay with soft soap;
add blue vitriol to shade the color. It can be made any shade
you wish.
_ DYEING FoR Morocco AND SHEEP LEATHER.—The follow.
ing colors may be imparted to leather, according to the. vari-
ous uses for which it is intended, (Blue.)- -Blue is given -by
steeping the subject.a day in urine and indigo, then bojling
it with alum; or it may be given by tempering the indigo.
with red wine, and washing the skins therewith.
(Another.)—Boil elderverries or dwarf elder, then smear —
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