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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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a general rule,however, the tare on the car of hides is mutuallyagreed upon by the buyer and seller, based upon thecondition of the hides as they are being taken up. Grubbing Hides. The percentage of grubs in a car of hides taken upis generally agreed upon between the cellar foremanand the buyers representative. However, if an agree-ment cannot be reached on this question, either partycan demand twenty hides for grubbing purposes. Thehides are procured in the same manner as for sweeptare. Other methods are also followed. Disinter-ested parties may pick out the hides or else they canbe thrown off of the truckloads as. weighed, one froman occasional load. Technically speaking, one grubconstitutes a number two hide, as the clear hide isspoiled by the grub hole. However, in the interestof speed and economy, the packers and tanners agreeupon the grubbing privilege. The number of hidescontaining live grubs in the twenty hides selected forgrubbing determines the percentage for the car lot in
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In this picture the bullocks have been skinned down to the shoul-ders and the carcass split into two halves. The hide droppertakes the hide off the shoulders, forelegs and neck and thechuck splitter severs the shoulders, making two sides of thecarcass. The meat is then run into a cooler and the hidedropped down to the hide cellar. DOMESTIC HIDES AND SKINS 33 question. Number one hides only are grubbed. Sec-onds on a cut selection are already imperfect. After having grubbed twenty hides, should eitherparty be dissatisfied with the result, they can demandan additional twenty hides for further grubbing. Theresult of the grubbing of the last twenty hides is con-sidered along with the first twenty in computing thepercentage of grubs in the carload. In other words,the percentage of grubs is figured on the whole fortyhides grubbed. This can be followed out again, an-other twenty hides being taken, the grubbing on thesixty hides being final, but it is seldom that even fortyhides are taken. Th

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