PREPARATION OF THE TOBACCO.

Otago Witness, Issue 714, 5 August 1865, Page 15

PREPARATION OF THE TOBACCO.

To fill the tank in which «hecp are to be dipped with hot dressing stuff, a number of boilers, proportionate to the size of the tank, will be r.'qui«ite Fill these with water and boil it. Wei^h out such a quantity of tobacco a3 will, with the addition of five gallons of water to each pound of tobacco, fill your tank ; so that if your tank requires 3000 gallons of water to fill it, you will have to weigh out 600lbs of tobacco to convert the th j 3000 gallons of water into dressing-stuff of the strength needed.

As soon as the water in the boilers boils, and not before, put in your tobacco (dividing it between your \arious boilers in. proportion to their size, as above explained, and at ones put on to each boiler a steamtight lid ; then remove the fires from under the boilers. In this state leave tne tobacco. When the tobacco has been six hours in the water, draw off the liquid, leaving the tobacco ?till in the boilers ; then fill up your boilers again with water, and with their lids on sioiuier gently for two hours; then agiin draw off the liquid. Repeat this operation of filling ami boiling a third time, when the water used in the three boilings should be in the proportion of five gallons to each pound of tobacco originally put into the boilers. Then mix in the tank or other reservoir the whole of these three boilings. Your tobacco having been infused in hot water, remaining in it six hours, and gently simmered for four hours, no seam having been allowed to escape, may be considered to be exhausted of its curative properties, and can be thrown away.