Life in the back-woods: a guide to the successful hunting and trapping of all kinds of animals by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Hunting, Trapping. [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, F. M. Reed
Published: 1875-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

warm, viz,: eight quarts raiu-water to one pint soft-soap. "Warm it. Then punch the hide, or work it with a soft stick 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 convenient. 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 oil 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.

Tannings witEiout the ll^ool or HaiiN— The skins are first soaked in warm water, scraped on the flesh side to get ofl" fat, and hung in a warm room until they begin to give a slight smell of hartshorn. The wool or fur then comes off readily. The hair side should now be thoroughly scraped against the hair. The skin is next soaked two or three weeks in weak lime-water, changing the water two or three times. Then they are brought out again, scraped smooth, and trimmed. Then rinsed in clean water, then soaked in wheat bran and water for two or three weeks. After this they are well stirred around in a pickle of alum, salt, and water. Then they are thrown again into the bran and water for two or three days. Then stretched and dried somewhat in a warm room. After this they are soaked in warm water, and then worked or trodden on in a trough or pail filled with yolk of eggs, salt, alum, flour, and water, beaten to a froth. They are finally stretched and dried in an airy room, and last of all smoothed with a warm smoothing-iron. This makes the beautiful leather we see in gloves, military trimmings, etc. Th3 proportions for the egg paste are as follows: Three and a half pounds salt, eight pounds alum, twenty-one pounds wheat flour, and yolks of nine dozen eggs. Make a paste with water, dissolving first the alum and salt. A little of this paste is used as wanted with a great deal of'water. Chamois skins and deer skins not wanted for gloves, are similarly treated up to the point of treating with egg paste. Instead of using this process they are oiled on the hair side with very clean animal oil, rolled into balls and thrown into the trough of a fulling-mill, well beaten two or three hours, aired, re-oiled, beaten again, and the process repeated a third time. They are then put into a warm room until they begin to give out a decided smell, then scoured in weak lye to take out superfluous grease. Here the intention is merely to get a thick felt-like skin of good color; a nicely grained surface'is not required, as in gloves.

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