Trapping on the farm . , a dull file, or the edge of a squarestick of hard wood, the scraping always being done from thehead toward the tail. After being scraped, or fleshed, skins are stretched asuniformly throughout as possible. Open skins are usuallypinned or nailed out on any convenient flat surface, fleshside exposed. If such a surface is not at hand, they aresewed or laced to a wooden hoop or frame of suitable sizeand shape. Cased skins are dried on stretchers made either Trapping on the Farm. 479 of thin board or metal rods shaped so as to stretch themproperly in every part (figs. 20, 2
Trapping on the farm . , a dull file, or the edge of a squarestick of hard wood, the scraping always being done from thehead toward the tail. After being scraped, or fleshed, skins are stretched asuniformly throughout as possible. Open skins are usuallypinned or nailed out on any convenient flat surface, fleshside exposed. If such a surface is not at hand, they aresewed or laced to a wooden hoop or frame of suitable sizeand shape. Cased skins are dried on stretchers made either Trapping on the Farm. 479 of thin board or metal rods shaped so as to stretch themproperly in every part (figs. 20, 22, and 23). Peltries should always be dried in a shady, well-ventilatedplace, as an open shed, and not by artificial heat when itcan be avoided. In regions where the rainfall is excessiveand the air is saturated with moisture, it is sometimes nec-essary to dry skins near a fire. In packing furs for shipment care should be taken to ar-range them so the fur side of one skin will not be soiled bythe flesh side of Fig. 22.—Board and Wire Stretchers Designed forMuskrat Skins. Skins wanted for home use may be dressed by simplethough somewhat tedious methods, one of which is hereoutlined. A tanning liquor is made by adding to each gallonof water one quart of salt and half an ounce of sulphuric mixture should not be kept in a metal container. Thinskins are tanned by it in one day, but heavy skins mustremain in it longer; they may remain in it indefinitely with-out harm. \^1ien removed from this liquor they are washedseveral times in soapy water, wrung as dry as possible, andrubbed on the flesh side with a cake of hard soap. Flat 480 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1010. skins are then folded in the middle, lengthwise over a clothesline, hair side out, and left to dry. Cased skins are simplyhung up by the nose, hair side out. When the hair is barelydry, and the flesh side is still moist, they are laid over a smooth, rounded board and scrapedon the flesh
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