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Afterwards put them into handlers with a part of the bark which comes out of the leaches or tubs, and fill them up with a weak wooze; in this situation they are to remain for about two or three weeks, more or less, handling them, however, during that time once or twice every day; this operation takes the lime out which the hides may contain, and prepares them for the tannage.