I have adopted the following method, which proves highly successful: Rub the buff leather, holding the face down, with the sharp edge of a pair of shears or a piece of glass.

This brings out any portion of the skin which may have become matted from any moisture, and also takes out any substance imbedded in it, and prevents it from scratching.

Then, with a stiff brush, rub the buff well, and it will be found to work well.

This same process employ on wheels and hand buffs every morning, or oftener, as occasion requires.
Preparing Buffs .-- Two of these are necessary.

That part of the stick to be covered should be about eighteen or twenty inches long, and three wide, and made crowning on the face from one end to the other, about one half inch.