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Classifying Hides

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
January
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following, froin an official statement, will give our readers a correct idea of the proper classification of hides, and aesist farmers in getting an approximate estímate of the value of thuse they may have to sell : Green hides are those which are sent in just as they como frorn the animal, Bever having been salted. Part cured are hides that have been salted but not long enough to be thoroughly cured. (reen salted are those that have been salted and are thoroughly cured. To cure a hide thoroughly will require from twelve to twenty days, according to the thicknsss of the hide and the temperature of the weather. The loss of weight from the green state is froui twelve to twenty rer cent. Dry flint is a thoroughly dry hide that has not been aalted. Dry saltcd ia a thoroughly dry bide, haviii been salted wbile groen. In groen salted hides and kins, thoso weigbing less than eight pounds are called deauons ; eight to tifteen pounds, calf ; fiíteen to twenty-flvn pounds, if plump, kip, but if tbin and poor, they are called runners, or murrains, and ate sold at the prico of hides ; all above twenty-five pounds aro called hides. A groen saltod hide is understood to be thoroughly cured, iree from salt, dirt, meat, horns, tail, bones and sinews, and before bcing weighed, all such substances are removed, or a proper deduction ia made from the weight, and when the head skin hang to the liidt; Vjy a narrow strip, it is cut off before weighing. All buil, stag, tainted, cut, badly scarrod, grubby or mnrrain hides, ara called damaged, and go at two-thirds price, unless they are very badly damaged, whcn thoy are classed as glue stock, at much lower price. A deduction of ten per cent. is made on all branded hides. In dry hides there ato other kinds of dfunaged, soch as motheaten, sunbumt, or weather-beaten. It is generally conceded by farmers md Inde dealers that over one-third of the value of all the hides taken off in the Northwest is lost by careless skinning and curing. As a lurge proportion of the hides received are green i-altcd, the price that they briug, a a rule, is made the standard for the price of all otlier kinds

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