Manufacturer and builder 2, 1875
— Mr. Charles, W. Smith, of Brewster's Station, N. Y., communicates to us the following recipe, which he states will be found very good, even if it fails in some cases to work well. He says:
"Take equal parts of sulphur, alum, salt, and dampen to a paste; then rub on the pelt with a brush for light skins, sad let them lay about a week. You can tell when they are tanned by scraping off a little of the mixture; the skin will be very white if tanned thoroughly. I have found it preferable to add a little dissolved saltpeter oat dry hard skins. Before there ingredients are applied, take off all greasy substances. For cheep or dog skins for robes, I sometimes take a box and put a little sulphur in it and set it on fire, then I fix the skin where it can catch the smoke. When you smother the fire, you can hold the pelt quite clone without burning it; for light skins however this will not answer. This process makes them more pliable, they look better, and keep free from moth.
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