•9 How to Make Neat's-foot Oil.— The hoofs are chopped off, and the other portions are cracked and boiW thoroughly. From the sarface of this boiled mass, pure neat's foot oil is skimmer!, which is unsurpassed by any other ole ginous mater for harness, shoes, &c. After the oil is taken off, the water is strained, to take from it any fatty particles that remain, and then it is boi'ed a^ain, until, upon/trying, it is found to settle into a stiff jelly. It is then poured into flatbottomed dishes, and, when cold, cut into suitable-sized pieces. It hard ris in a few day 8, and then yon will have a ; ' fine article of glue, free from impnrities of any kind. Bytaking a portion of this glu^nons; siibstance before it becomes too thick, and brushing it over, pieces of silk, you have, just as much court-plaster as, you . desire,; .inotlbrous, tenacious, imA entirely '~. free": froiu 'those poisonous qualities: whicli cause (aiinuoh of the article to be s!oid by apntbeoariea does) inflamiijonVtfheii^»|>p%d to ww^oaw, «»^
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4154, 6 December 1870, Page 5
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172Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4154, 6 December 1870, Page 5
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