Show NEW MATERIAL rom FOB TANNING we have I been shown a calfskin catkin tanned by the use of a hew material at keokuk Tann Tannery eryin yin pin iowa at the head of navigation of the lower mississippi i on the west bank of that river the herb E known in those parts by the name of dog fen nel substituted for the bark of the oak or hemlock tree hitherto the dog fennel fennei which I 1 is 9 a weed of disagreeable smell and which grows abundant where the farmers would rather see grass has been regarded as a nuisance nui nuis anee sanse it is now found to abound in tannin and sells for fifteen dollars a ton the leather tanned with it looks well and for aught we know wears well lex ex |