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Harness Polish
Take 2 ounces mutton suet, 6 ounces bees' wax, 6 ounces powdered sugar candy, 2 ounces soft soap, and 1 ounce indigo or lampblack. Dissolve the . Dissolve the soap in + pint of water; then add the other verted into liquid blacking of a similar quality, and, by using less fluid matter, the ingredients of liquid blacking will produce paste blacking .
One thing must, however, be observed, and that is, that the ivory-black used for liquid ingredients; melt and mix together; add a blacking must be reduced to a much finer gill of turpentine. Lay it on the harness powder than for paste blacking, as, if this be with a sponge, and polish off with a brush. not attended too, it will settle to the bottom,