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Pure Strychnine Costs $1.50 per o/. Sure 

 death capsules for killing wolves, foxes, etc. 

 i^ Use Buckskin or Moosehide Moccasins -When 



V A hunting or trapping; and do not stir up the ground 

 when setting traps, be careful to leave the ground 

 as near as you found it as possible to do. 



Tanning- Pur and Other Skins. First: Re- 

 move the legs and other useless parts and soak the 

 skin soft; then remove the flesh substances and 

 soak in warm water for an hour; now: 



Take for one large or two or three small skins, 

 borax, saltpetre and glauber-salt, of each y> oz. 

 and dissolve or wet with soft water sufficiently to 

 allow it to be spread on the flesh side of the skin. 



Put it on with a brush, thickest in the center or 

 thickest part of the skin, and double the skin .to- 

 gether, flesh-side in, keeping it in a cool place for 

 twenty-four hours, not allowing it to freeze, how- 

 ever. 



Second: Wash the skin clean, and then: Take 

 sal-soda, i oz.; borax, ^ oz.; refined soap. 2 >/.; 

 (white hard soap;) melt them slowly together, be- 

 ing careful not to allow them to boil, and apply the 

 mixture to the flesh-side as at first roll up again 

 and keep in a warm place for 24 hours. 



Third: Wash the skin clean, as above, and ha\e 

 saleratus two ounces, dissolved in hot rain watei 

 sufficient to well saturate the skin, then: 



Take alum, 4 pzs.; salt, 8 ozs.; and dissolve also 

 in hot rain watef; when sufficiently cool to allow 

 the handling of it without scalding, put in the skin 

 for 12 hours; then wring out the water and hang 

 up for 12 hours more, to dry. Repeat this last 

 soaking and drying from 2 to 4 times according to 

 the desired softness of the skin when finished. 



Lastly: Finish by pulling, working, etc. and fi- 

 nally by rubbiug with piece of pumice-stone and 

 fine sand-paper. 



This works admirably on sheep skins as well as 

 on fur-skins, dog, cat or wolf-skins also, making a 

 durable leather well adapted to washing. 



Above recipes are reliable if strictly followed; if 

 skins are however, well cleaned of meats and part 

 of the fat well salted, rolled up and tied, they had 

 best be shipped us at once. 



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