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Title: Hides and skins from the animal's back to the tannery door
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Hides and skins
Publisher: Chicago, Shoe and Leather Weekly
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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et theirliving by grazing. The peasants drink the milk of 168 HIDES AND SKINS the female horses and, when killed, eat the meat. Thewinter colt skins are long-haired. Horse Fronts. In Russia horsehides, the fronts only come to Amer-ica, there being- no demand for cordovan leather.The butts are used principally by German and Polishtanners. The hides come from the same districtsas the colt skins and the selections are the same.Collectors separate the fronts from the butts. All coltand horse hides coming from Petropoul are of bettertake-off and are better cured than those from otherdistricts. They always bring from five to ten centsmore per skin. Seconds are sold for 20 per cent lessthan firsts, and thirds bring half price. This is trueof both colt and horse hides. Fronts come in bales,thirty to thirty-five in each. All have heads on andlong shanks. The heavier selections of both are thebest sellers. Scenes at the Nijni Fair which is held at NIJNI NOVGOROD 2 75 miles from Moscow, Russia *
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