. 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 . le, pickers made of domestic hides would cost muchmore than those made ot huttalo hide. The only American cattle hide which approaches in aslight degree the buffalo hide in thickness is that ot abreed of cattle in Southern Texas. It was tound that thenative cattle were thin and scrawny because ot the ticks,mosquitoes and the Berney fly which pestered them, andthe problem, therefore, was to produce a breed ot cattlewith sk
. 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 . le, pickers made of domestic hides would cost muchmore than those made ot huttalo hide. The only American cattle hide which approaches in aslight degree the buffalo hide in thickness is that ot abreed of cattle in Southern Texas. It was tound that thenative cattle were thin and scrawny because ot the ticks,mosquitoes and the Berney fly which pestered them, andthe problem, therefore, was to produce a breed ot cattlewith skin thick enough to withstand these pests. Thebuffalo does not interbreed with either the domestic cattleor the humped cattle of India, but the hides of the latter,although not as thick as those of the buffalo, are muchthicker than the hides ot our domestic cattle. Cows otthe native humped cattle of India were therefore im-ported and bred to Hereford and shorthorn bulls. Thisproduced a species of cattle with skins impervious to tliesand immune from Texas fever. Brazil, for the samepurpose, imports b<Jth the bulls and cows, and it has [33] M CJRLJND MJNUFJCrURING -^.f-,. »? mill mil I «»?9^-« These buffaloes are scrawiiv and thin because ot laik of good grazing been found that in lireeding the cows to Hereford bullsthe hump disappears in the first cross hut the skin retainsits original characteristics and is thick enough to with-stand the plague of Hies.* Although the hide of these an-imals is thicker than that of the domestic cattle, it is notthick enough tor picker purposes, nor is it as suitableas the hide of the buffalo. *A ictd/t/iy cattleman of Brad I in IQIQ paid $20,000for 0)1 e of these hulls. THE II -. / TKR B i FF. IFO 3S BUFFALO HIDES MAKE POOR LEATFIER Buffalo hides are thick and of a course tihre. Theymake an inferior leatlier, hiit in times ot great scarcity,notably during the war, the best grades ot buffalo hideswere brought into this country tor tanni
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