. 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 . Taking buffalo hides to tlic hoat at a landing on the irawaddv River { Pakkoku ) between MandalaN and Prome. At every stop the boat takes on a tew hides THE Drv huffald hidL-> brcmght to Rangoon b\ rail DRVINC; OF THE HIDESIMPORTANT The drvinLi; of the hide after being taken oft the ani-mal is of the utmost importance liecause ot the climaticconditions. The heat of the tropics is intense and theravs
. 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 . Taking buffalo hides to tlic hoat at a landing on the irawaddv River { Pakkoku ) between MandalaN and Prome. At every stop the boat takes on a tew hides THE Drv huffald hidL-> brcmght to Rangoon b\ rail DRVINC; OF THE HIDESIMPORTANT The drvinLi; of the hide after being taken oft the ani-mal is of the utmost importance liecause ot the climaticconditions. The heat of the tropics is intense and theravs of the sun hurninir durinir the dav, hut the nitrhtsare cool, with heavv dews. The native sun-dries his hideshv spreading; tliem on the ground to drv, hut it not prop-erly cared for the heavv dews deposit water in the de-pressions of the hide, wlhcli the intense heat ot the sunacts upon, and decav results. The liide, when taken oft, if properly handled isfirst rieshed and then treated with an antiseptic solu-tion to protect it from ants and insects. It is thenstretched upon a frame and held in place by means 42 GJRLJND MJNUFACTURING CO. ot grass twine passing through holes made on tlie edgesot the hide, when thev are sun-dried. Hides dried inthis manner are much more tree trom the decav likely to
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