. Hides and skins from the animal's back to the tannery door. uth America and —Brazil—Mexican Skins 200 CONTENTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEATHER INDUSTRY IN ITS RELATION TO THE WORLDS HIDE SUPPLY. Value of Statistics—Less Demand for Beef—Revolutionin Cattle Trade—Increase of Dairy Cattle—Cattle Sup-ply of the World—Expansion of Foreign Trade—In-creased Domestic Consumption of Leather—Goatskins. 202 THE COMPOSITION OF LEATHER FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE HIDE— THE IMPORTANCE OF A PROPER SAMPLE FOR ANALYSIS. Introductory—Need of a Representative Sample—Differ-ence in Fibre—Difficul
. Hides and skins from the animal's back to the tannery door. uth America and —Brazil—Mexican Skins 200 CONTENTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEATHER INDUSTRY IN ITS RELATION TO THE WORLDS HIDE SUPPLY. Value of Statistics—Less Demand for Beef—Revolutionin Cattle Trade—Increase of Dairy Cattle—Cattle Sup-ply of the World—Expansion of Foreign Trade—In-creased Domestic Consumption of Leather—Goatskins. 202 THE COMPOSITION OF LEATHER FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE HIDE— THE IMPORTANCE OF A PROPER SAMPLE FOR ANALYSIS. Introductory—Need of a Representative Sample—Differ-ence in Fibre—Difficulty in Obtaining Proper Samples—Results of Analysis 2I0 THE CHARACTERISTICS AND COMMERCIALADAPTABILITY OF HIDES. Dry Hides—Salted Hides—Anglo-American Hides-Domestic Hides—Packer Hides—Selections of PackerHides—Grubbinc Dates—Tare—Tare Before Weighing—Country Hides—Percentage of Leather From Differ-ent Hides—Discussion on Salt Stains 216 GLOSSARY. Trade Terms With Their Definitions Alphabetically Ar-ranged 23°. HIDES and SKINS HIDE FIBRE By ROBERT W. GRIFFITH It is a basic condition upon which the production ofleather depends that the original fibre of the hide or skinremains intact, and indeed the whole art of tanning isdirected towards the preservation of the fibre, so that astate in which the fibres retain their original pliability andtensile strength is common to the raw hide as wellas the leather. It was well understood by old-time tan-ners that the processes involved in transforming hides intoleather did not tend towards an improvement in the de-sirable characteristics of the former, but the tendencyto rapid decay made it absolutely necessary that someprocess which preserves the fibre be employed in orderthat the hide could be made serviceable for the varieduses to which it is put. Preservative Processes. These preservative processes, which are now calledtannages, were originally very crude, but the number ofsuch processes i
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