CARE OF SHOES.
The following recipe is good for boots:—One pound of drop-black, half pint coachmakers' dye, small bit of Prussian blue, one pint of neatsfoot oil. Hang a wax candle before the fire to drop in or a piece of beeswax. Mix well the dye and black first. Warm it when putting it on.
Source: HINTS FOR HOUSEHOLDS. (1890, May 9). Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA : 1883 - 1897), p. 4 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE PORT ADELAIDE NEWS).
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