Red. Take 1 lb. of yellow resin, 5 1/2 oz. of gum lac, 5 1/2 oz. of Venice turpentine, and 1 oz. of vermilion. Melt the lac in a copper pan suspended over a clear fire, add the resin, pour the turpentine slowly in, and soon afterward add the vermilion, stirring the mixture all the time. Form either into round sticks by rolling it out on a smooth stone slab by means of a wooden board, or into oval sticks by casting it into stone molds made in two pieces.

Black sealing-wax is made by substituting either lampblack or ivory-black in the above recipe.

Cleaning Harness, or Saddles and Bridles. - If harness, wash it perfectly clean with warm water and soft soap, and when dry, apply neat's-foot oil and black dye, mixed; mix them by adding a small quantity of salts of wormwood, when they will be well blacked and pliable. At the same time, by applying the oil and dye to the bottom or under parts of the straps, and composition to the top, they will always be pliable, and have a good polish on the top. If a riding saddle, wash in cold water and soft soap until free from dirt; then apply soft soap with a woolen cloth - about 2 table-spoonfuls would be enough for a saddle - which will dry in. If the saddle is to have a yellow appearance, infuse a few cents' worth of hay saffron in about four or five table-spoonfuls of water, and apply before the soft soap, then rub on a piece of woolen cloth, or a brush, a piece of bees-wax.

and finish the saddle off with it, rubbing till a good polish is obtained.