1864 Bar Tender's Guide price $2 00 by Jerry Thomas

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FILTRATION.

be provided as ninny pails as there are filterers in,use;for . each pail there must be apportioned 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 with a little water, constantly beating it and rubbing it together with the hands until it comes to the consistency of a solt or pulpy matter; afterward more water should be added, continuing the jirocess of beating up the pulpy substance similar to the usual mode of beating up eggs; the pail must then befilled,and the contentsthrown into the filterer. "When the water has run through,fill up again so as to keep the filterer full, and when the water runs clear let the whole of the water pass through, and the bag is piepared to filter. Place a fiv-egallon demijohn under the filterer, with funnel, fill another demijohn with the liquor to be