Guide to Taxidermy 



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spinning in cotton mills. It is so fine that enormous 

 quantities are wound on a small paper core. It 

 should liave a wire hooked into the projecting end 

 of the paper core, and be suspended from the ceil- 

 ing over your work bench. Your dealer in supplies 

 has these. 



Cork Bark 



This is a thick, but light, bark of a South Amer- 

 ican tree. It is very useful in both commercial and 

 ornamental taxidermy, for the making of artificial 

 stumps. It comes in pieces up to as large as eight 

 or nine inches in diameter and three or four feet 

 long. Your supply dealer will have it. 



Corn Meal 



Unbolted corn meal may be used in places of 

 sawdust for taking up moisture when skinning spe- 

 cimens. It is necessary to use this if the flesh is to 

 be saved for eating, because it washes off" easily 

 wliile sawdust sticks. Sawdust is much the best 

 though for specimens whose meat is not to be sav- 

 ed. Every grocery store keeps it. 



Coriosive Sublimate 



(Bicloride of Mercury) 

 This is a poison, a solution of which is used for 

 preventing the destruction of specimens by insect 



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