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The hides, after dehairing and Heshing, are aHowed 

 to dry and are then disinfected bv treatment with a so- 

 lution ot one to one thousand parts of hichloride of mer- 

 cury, to comply with the laws of the United States, 

 when they are shipped to us in hales of about ti\e hun- 

 dred pounds ot halt hides or bends. Thev undergo ntj 

 preparation other than that mentioned and are simplv 

 the hide of the buffalo dehaired and dried. 



ENGLISH PREPARED HIDES ARE BEST 



It should be remembered tliat the rawhide loom 

 picker industry is much more extensive in England than 

 with us, not only because there are more looms in that 

 country but also because every plain cotton loom in 

 England takes two rawhide pickers instead of the 

 leather pickers which we use on the underpick lo(Mn. 

 The preparation ot hides for picker purposes is, there- 

 lore, a business by itself in England and is carried on bv 

 concerns which specialize in this kind of work and do 



A small part ot the large stock of hides in our storehous 



