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More About Tanning Sheepskins 
I read with much interest your an¬ 
swer to Mrs. O. A. S., page 94. on how 
to prepare sheep pelt for rug«. Suppose 
one had applied the tawing mixture and 
had found the pelt not as pliable as de¬ 
sired. would it he good practice to im¬ 
merse the pelt in a pickle of hemlock bark 
for a few weeks? Would it do for a fresh 
hide in place of the tawing mixture, i. e., 
for light pelts with the hair on? w. H. 
Washington. 
If the pelts have been thoroughly 
tanned, either by the tawing or by any 
other process, immersing in hemlock bark 
decoctions will have no influence, one way 
or another. If not thoroughly tanned 
such an immersion would complete the 
process and might be advisable, though I 
would prefer to complete the tanning by 
the method originally begun, and, if this 
does not give sufficient pliability, work in 
plenty of neatsfoot oil. 
Hemlock bark is the best tanning agent 
for sheepskins that I know of, so far as 
the quality of the leather is concerned. 
It will, however, require time and pa¬ 
tience. Tf quicker results are desired it 
may be better to adopt some other method, 
such as the one to which reference is 
made. Also, the hemlock bark will im¬ 
part a very decided yellowish tinge to 
the wool. If this will be objectionable 
use oak bark instead. Oak bark will pro¬ 
duce a leather of greater tensile strength, 
and for this reason is preferred for the 
manufacture of harness leather, while the 
durability and wearing qualities of such 
leather are nearly as great as in hemlock 
tanned. It has the further advantage of 
changing the color only in an almost im¬ 
perceptible degree. The finest grades of 
Russia leather are tanned with birch 
bark. C. O. O. 
The City Beeman Tells His Story 
(Continued from page 399) 
one side of the hive and close up with a 
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two or three frames of brood and bees 
and honey-bees. 
Building TTp Colonies. —To build 
these nuclei up in strong colonies, place 
a nucleus in a hive on one side, follow 
up with a division board the same size 
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tight and warm and leave them about 
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