. 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 . Wft huftalo hides being taken trom aChinese shop in Rangoon THE BUFFALO 45 with sand. It is because of such practices and becausethe Chinese better understand their own people thatthe European dealers in the East ha\e their ownChinese buyers as a tr<-between. It is a matter of from six months to a year alter thehides are shipped from the East before they reach us,so that we are oblii;;ed to anticipate our requir
. 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 . Wft huftalo hides being taken trom aChinese shop in Rangoon THE BUFFALO 45 with sand. It is because of such practices and becausethe Chinese better understand their own people thatthe European dealers in the East ha\e their ownChinese buyers as a tr<-between. It is a matter of from six months to a year alter thehides are shipped from the East before they reach us,so that we are oblii;;ed to anticipate our requirementsfar in advance in order to secure the most H Qhapter IV PREPARATION OF HIDES FORLOOM PICKERS THERE are two methods of preparing hides iorpicker purposes. One is hv dehairing withoutlime, which takes hut a tew hours and is satis-factory provided the hides are scjund, hut this methoddoes not dischise hidden imperfections. Pickers madefrom hides prepared in this manner run the risk ot he-ing made from hides which are apparently sound, !)utreally imperfect. The other method ot removing thehair is hv the limine process. The hides are soaked inlime pits for the purpose of starting the hair and whentaken out are scraped to remove the hair and tlesh. Thedecay caused hv sun-hurning, previously reterred to, isself-evident in manv cases hut in others it is hidden, asa hide mav appear to he perfectly sound on hoth hairand flesh sides hut he unsound in the center. Limingthe hides discloses these imperfections, hut no matterhow careful one mav he, or how good a judge ot hideshefore liming, a lot of apparently sound hides \\\\\ showfrom ^ to
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