The Western Democrat

SOAP MAKING.

We do not believe there is any more luck in making soap than in making rail fence. The only requisite is to know how. The presence of a small quantity of salt in the grease will not prevent its union with the lye: "Put lime in the bottom of your ash stand; one bushel for ten of ashes; (if you saturate your ashes with hot water two or three days before running off your lye, you will obtain the strength much better;) run off your lye, and have it clean, and strong enough to bear an egg the bigness of a dime above the surface'; put it into your barrel or tub cold, and for one barrel melt and turn in about thirty pounds of clean grease or lard; stir it well together, and stir frequently for three or four days, and you will have nice white, pleasant smelling soap. One gallon of which will be worth more than two gallons of the black rank soap made by boiling lye, bone'r, rinds and scraps all together.—[Ohio Cultivator.