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and proceed with the cutting. I^ay some clean leaves at the bottom of 

 the barrel, sprinkle with a handful of salt, fill in half a bushel of cut 

 cabbage, stamp gently until the juice makes its appearance, then add 

 another handful of salt, and so on until the barrel is full. Cover over 

 with cabbage leaves, place on top a clean board fitting the space pretty 

 well, and on top of that a stone weighing twelve or fifteen pounds. 

 Stand away in a cool place, and when hard freezing comes on remove to 

 the cellar. It will be ready for use in from four to six weeks. 



^l^lderberry Ink. Place in an earthen vessel some bruised elder- 

 berries and keep in a warm place for three days, then press and filter. 

 The filtered juice is of such an intense dark color that it takes two hun- 

 dred parts of water to reduce it to the shade of dark red wine. Add to 

 ten quarts of this filtered juice one ounce of sulphate of iron, and the 

 same quantity of crude pyroligneous acid. The ink when first used has 

 a violet color, but when dry is indigo-blue black. 



Black Ink. Take one-half pound of the dry extract of logwood, 

 and dissolve in one gallon of water. To this add one-quarter ounce of 

 the bi-chromate of potash. The result is a beautiful blue-black ink. 

 This ink should not be allowed to freeze, as freezing will ruin the color. 

 If it flows too freely add a little sugar. 



Ink Powder, i. Sulphate of copper, one dram; gum Arabic, one- 

 quarter ounce; copperas, one ounce; nutgalls and extract of logwood, 

 four ounces each; all to be pulverized and evenly mixed. 



2. Sulphate of iron, two ounces; galls, five ounces; gum Arabic, one 

 ounce. Reduce to a powder and divide into one ounce papers, each of 

 which will make one-half pint of ink. 



3. Aleppo galls, three pounds; copperas (dry but not calcined,) one 

 pound; gum Arabic, six ounces; white sugar, two ounces; all in pow- 

 der; mix. One pint of boiling water poured on two ounces makes a 

 pint of ink. 



Japan, or Glossy Ink. In six quarts of water boil four ounces of 

 logwood in chips cut very thin. Boil for nearly an hour, adding from 

 time to time a little boiling water to compensate for waste by evapora- 

 tion. Strain the liquor while hot; allow it to cool, and make up the 

 quantity equal to five quarts by the addition of cold water. To this add 

 one pound of blue galls coarsely bruised, or one-quarter pound of the 

 best galls in sorts, four ounces of sulphate of iron calcined to whiteness, 

 one-half ounce of acetate of copper, previously mixed with a little of the 

 liquid till it forms a smooth paste, three ounces of poarse sugar, and six 



