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tice, it will in time wear away. I will, ne- 

 verthelefs, here give a detail of the procefs ; 

 not to prolong its continuance, but to me- 

 morize a practice which at prefent gives cold 

 and dirty employment to thoufands, fome 

 weeks in every year. 



The mixture is eight pounds of butter (of 

 the fecond, third, or fourth quality fee ar- 

 ticle DAIRYING) to one gallon of tar. The 

 butter being diflblved, the two ingredients 

 are poured into a tub or other veffcl, and 

 Itirred for -fome time with a long wooden 

 fpatula; agitating them violently, and unit- 

 ing them intimately together. The general 

 guide is to keep flirring until the butter has 

 regained its flirThefs fufficiently to hold the 

 ftirring- flick erect in the oinrment , which, 

 when quite cool, is of the confidence of but- 

 ter in warm weather. Some put the tar pre- 

 vioufly into the " falve-tub," and ftir that 

 alone until it lofes its blackncfs, acquiring" a 

 mellow yellowifh hue ; then add the diflblved 

 butter, and continue ftirring until the (lick 

 Hand on-end. If the butter be heated too 

 much, it is thought to injure the tar: it 

 ihould be barely oiled. 



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