40 OF TACKLE. 



2. TO TURN RED HACKLES BROWN. 



Put a piece of copperas, the size of half a 

 walnut, into a pint of water ; boil it, and whilst 

 boiling put in the red feathers. Let them 

 remain until by frequent examination they are 

 found to have taken the proper colour. 



3. TO STAIN FEATHERS AN OLIVE DUN, ETC. 



Make a very strong infusion of the outside 

 brown leaves or coating of an onion root, by 

 allowing the ingredients to stand warm by the 

 fire for ten or twelve hours. If dun feathers 

 are boiled in this dye they will become an olive 

 dun ; and white feathers a yellow. If a small 

 piece of copperas be added the latter colour will 

 become a useful muddy yellow, darker or lighter 

 as may be required, and approaching to a yellow 

 olive dun, according to the quantity of copperas 

 used. 



4. TO DTE A MALLARD'S FEATHER FOR THE GREEN DRAKE. 



Tie up some of the best feathers in bunches of 

 a dozen, and boil them in the same mordant of 

 alum as given in No. 1, merely to get the grease 

 out. Then boil them in an infusion of fustick 

 to procure a yellow, and subdue the brightness 

 of this yellow by adding nitrate of copper to the 

 infusion. 



