a water jacket equipped with an immersion heater after 90 minutes mixing was stopped and the stirrer was rinsed to remove fibers the resultant slurry from rinsing the stirrer was collected and oven dried to a constant weight the difference in weight represents the depositable material which is then converted to grams of depositable material per ton of pulp the first experiment performed was to test a cationized talc i e talc treated with only a polydadmac against a control and a conventional talc an occ pulp from a mill was used in this study four samples of pulp were prepared one without talc control one with conventional talc and two with cationized talc at different dosages the results of the deposition testing described above are listed in table 2 the results show that the treated talc provides a reduction in stickies deposited on the stirrer the results also show that the percent reduction increases with an increase in the amount of treated talc added to the occ pulp thus it is clear that a polydadmac treated talc will significantly reduce stickies while it is possible to add a polydadmac treated talc to an occ pulp in the amounts shown above and such addition is specifically contemplated herein cost is a factor which in the practical world should be considered in addition to cost considerations it is noted that the addition of 40 pounds of talc per ton of occ pulp may affect other board properties such as strength stiffness or coefficient of friction thus while contemplated under the principles of the invention the addition of this much talc may have other impacts and therefore other chemistries were evaluated to determine whether other chemistries can provide the same benefits as the polydadmac treated talc the polymers.