SHEEPSKIN BUG.

Manawatu Herald, 22 October 1889, Page 4

SHEEPSKIN BUG.

* , — 1. first wash the slciu in warm soapsuds to make the wool white and clean and with the fingers pick out matted pieces *nd all bi's of dirt o- rohbish. It gen- rally needs to be washed 'hroiuh at least three wa'ers to g ->t cleuii, and t!.en must be rinsed thoroughly iv cl 'ar, hard water to take out the suds. Dissolve half a pound of a urn and a };ound of sat in ten quarts of boiling water and mix this in a tubfnl of water. Let the skms in i> this seven hours, then bang them over a line to drain, wool side up. As soon as the wool is dry, stretch and tack the skins w ol side down on some flat surface, as a large board on the side of a barn or wood house. I stretched mine on the garret flror, after first placing a lew papers over the boai^ and tacked in as in;<uy places as needed. As soon as the skin is about half dry rub it thoroughly over with mixture of equal parts of powfliM-pd sa'tpetre «nd alum, and repeat this every day for three days, then take it up fold the skins together and laj it away After three days spread it down on a tab'e and s rape off all lumpy places with a blunt knife a.d rub well with sand paper or pumice "tone; it wi 1 then be soft and plinWe. — Prairie Farmer.