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The refuse of tanneries such as the ears of oxen and calves are better articles. Animal skins also, in any form, uncombined with tannin, may be worked into glue. Ox-tallow is of great importance in the arts. Candles and soap are made of it, and it enters largely into the dressing of leather and the use of machinery. Large quantities are annually exported from Russia.
Ox-tallow consists of seventy-six parts of stearine and twenty-four of oleine, out of one hundred parts. The horns of oxen are used for many purposes. The horn consists of two parts: an outward horny case, and an inward conical-shaped substance, somewhat intermediate between indurated hair and bone, called the fluid of the horn.
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