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Cooley's Superior Black Ink

Bruised Aleppo nut-galls, 12 pounds; water, 6 gallons; boil in a copper vessel for 1 hour, alding water to make up for the portion lost by evaporation; strain and again boil the galls with water, 4 gallons, for 1/2 hour, strain off the liquor and boil a third time with water, 2+ gallons, and strain; mix the several liquors, and while still hot add green copperas (sulphate of iron) coarsely powdered, 4 pounds; whole. gum-arabic bruised small, 3+ pounds; agitate 2473. Japan Ink. Aleppo galls, until dissolved, and, when settled, strain pound; logwood chips and copperas, each 4 through a hair sieve, and keep it in a bunged-ounces; gum-arabic, 3 ounces; sugar, 1 up cask for use.

This will produce 1.2 gallons, ounce; blue vitriol (sulphate of copper), and very fine and durable.

This ink, and that in No. 2463, are good.

Cooley recommends them very highly. He sugar candy, cach ounce. Boil the galls and logwood in 6 quarts water till reduced one-half; strain; add the other ingredients. Stir until dissolved. Clear and bottle. If it does not | combination of sesquioxide of iron with ferroshine enough, add more gum; also a few cyanide of potassium), put it into any earthen cloves, to prevent mould. vessel, and pour upon it as much strong