. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . is liides prepared in this mannerthat we use. [47] 48 GARLAND MANUFACTURING CO. The hides, after dehairing and Heshing, are aHowedto dry and are then disinfected bv treatment with a so-lution ot one to one thousand parts of hichloride of mer-cury, to comply with the laws of the United States,when they are shipped to us in hales of about ti\e hun-dred pounds ot halt hides or bends. Thev undergo ntjpreparation other than th
. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . is liides prepared in this mannerthat we use. [47] 48 GARLAND MANUFACTURING CO. The hides, after dehairing and Heshing, are aHowedto dry and are then disinfected bv treatment with a so-lution ot one to one thousand parts of hichloride of mer-cury, to comply with the laws of the United States,when they are shipped to us in hales of about ti\e hun-dred pounds ot halt hides or bends. Thev undergo ntjpreparation other than that mentioned and are simplvthe hide of the buffalo dehaired and dried. ENGLISH PREPARED HIDES ARE BEST It should be remembered tliat the rawhide loompicker industry is much more extensive in England thanwith us, not only because there are more looms in thatcountry but also because every plain cotton loom inEngland takes two rawhide pickers instead of theleather pickers which we use on the underpick lo( preparation ot hides for picker purposes is, there-lore, a business by itself in England and is carried on bvconcerns which specialize in this kind of work and do. A small part ot the large stock of hides in our storehous THE JVATER BUFFALO 49 nothing else. The nearness ot the curers to the market,which gives them the opportunity to secure hides of thedesired quality, and their years ot experience and knowl-edge of what is required, result in producing hidesmore suitable tor loom pickers and better prepared thancan be obtained elsewhere. OUR HIDES SKILLFULLY PREPARED Hides of inferior quality, no matter h(nv caretullvprepared, do not make the best loom pickers, and hidesof the best quality may be made unsuitable bv too muchor too little liming. It is, theretore, ot the utmost im-portance that hides be selected and prepared by reliableand experienced curers it pickers ot the best quality areto be produced. We haye for nearly fifty years had our hides preparedby one of the la
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