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freely. Some hides have 9 or 10 Ib. of offal on them, which 

 the selling broker has to remove, so he can only account to 

 his client for the weight of a clean trimmed hide, less the usual 



DIAGRAM OF CORRECTLY TRIMMED HIDE. 



trade "tare," which is in a good many instances considerably 

 less than the weight the farmer or butcher has consigned. 



Green hides are hides that have not been salted at all. They 

 are sent to town just as they come off the beast. Green hides 

 begin to decompose if left any length of time without salting. 



