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Curing Sheep Skins Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you tell me how to cure sheepskins? I have heard baking soda is very good, but don’t know the quantity or how to use it-(A.B.C., Waimate). We had occasion to inquire about curing skins before. Baking soda is used mostly for cow and calf skins, and it may be very good for sheep skins too. One way of curing calf skins is to tack them out on the floor, rub with kerosene till very wet all over, and then spread over about a pound of baking
soda. Rub this well in, and it makes a sort of paste with the kerosene, Leave it for a week, rubbing two or three times during the week. Then pull off any loose inner skin, rub with a brick or pumice till it is soft and pliable. One listener said that when curing goat skins he just rubs in the baking soda, without any kerosene or anything else, and leaves it for about a week. However, here is the way "Mrs. Porangahau" cures her lamb and sheep skins-also rabbit skins. She has done lots this way, and I have seen them.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Unnumbered Page
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