Country Hides and Skins. 
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otherwise equivalent general condition. Some injury is caused to 
hides by the horns of cattle and by the use of barbed wire for fences; 
the dehorning of cattle and the discontinuance of the use of barbed 
wire for fencing cattle inclosures will prevent tbe loss from these 
causes. 
The effect on the leather of grubby, ticky. and branded hides is 
shown to some extent in figures 5 to 8. 
Fig. 6. — Leather from a " ticky " hide. The pits caused by the tick 
bites resemble those from smallpox, and give the leather a rough 
surface, making it unfit for many purposes for which a fine finish is 
necessary. 
SPREAD BETWEEN PRICE OF HIDES AND PRICE OF 
LEATHER. 
The United States Department of Agriculture receives many pro- 
tests from farmers and butchers against the wide difference that 
exi-ts between the prices paid them for hides and the prices charged 
them for leather. This condition is the result of many factors, 
most of which are not peculiar to hides and leather, but apply equally 
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