Show Improve improvement ment meat in tanning the french are an ingenious people A frenchman has recently made mada an important improvement pro in the tanning and preparation of leather but the whole secret of the process is known as yet only to the inventor perhaps some of our yankee tanners in lit utah may be able to gues it the the tte first stage of the process 13 analogous 1 lo 10 that which the hides or skins undergo in the tanyard when the horns bortis have been removed the hides are slightly washed andr then uti haired in the tile usual manner net next they undergo a partial dring g and receive a uniform coating of a paste the composition compoi compol tion and anti mode of preparation of which ire are peculiar to the inventor avery A very consid considerable era saving of lime in iii the process of making is one of the advantages claimed for fur this mode Calf calfskin sin can be prepared in the most thorough manner in lit about dixeen hours tle tie tle thickest of hide requires only two days and a half to be fully converted by the application of this process under the inot most favorable circumstances circumstance it ordic fadly requires lour tour or five weeks subjection to he the lannin tannin liquor under the old process of tanning in which th tit hijda hues were placed in the pit with layers of or tan to separate them and afterwards ter wards fillad wilh with water a very considerable period has been known to elapse di during tiring the process sume some sometimes times amounting I 1 to 0 four years when wren oid ordinary inary buther bather is boiled in it gradually hardens anci ana becomes rigid and if the operation be continued for halt hnit an hour it will be found folind to have assumed a kind of woody text texture lire tire and alid to have become brittle som some descriptions of leather on the other liand hand bf become come converted into amass somewhat resembling glue lentner of the he improved kind when tred tried in the same way I 1 gradually approaches to the condition of horn |