1862 Bar Tender's Guide price $1.50 by Jerry Thomas

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FILTEATION.

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be provided as many pails as there are filterers in use;for each pail there must be apijortioned half of a sheet of blot ting paper, prepared as follows: rub each piece of paper in your hands until it becomes smooth and pliant, as near to cloth as possible; then place it in the pail udth a little water, constantly beating it and rubbing it together with the hands until it comes to the consistency of a soft or pulpy matter; afterward more water should be added, continuing the jwocess of beating up the i^ulpy sirbstauce similar to the usual mode of beating up eggs; the pail must thenbefilled,and tbe contentsthrown into thefilterer. When the water has run through,fill uj) again so astokeep the filterer full, and when the water runs clear let the whole of the water pass through, and the bag is prepared to filter. Place a fiv-cgallon demijohn under the filterer, with funnel, fill another demijohn with the liquor to be