Show In Cattle Market Due To Low Levels Of Hide Prices petition in Substitutes Took A Away way From Amount of Business Business- Tanners Large 1 on to Encourage age Grea Greater er Use of Leather J ro I of the present depression in We market undoubtedly is due I that hides have aYe dropped to tot feet fact t. t t the l lowest lowest west levels in a great I je leer JellS n. n Hide prices now are not higher than they were in the followed the which i depression on I taT Rai tar and It is not over that there t leather or o the fact number of hides available l. l t At As a matter of fact leath- leath leath- leath d hide stocks are less than nor- nor ud the market continues to Rides Hides in Los Ios Angeles are now nowal lat at al practically one-half one the value ego ago gO from substitutes is the thelven given for the present serious Son Last year for instance rs of composition soles my Iny from leather tanners an ait a- a it of ot business equivalent to the theof theof id of hides Composition tc according to the shoe manuare manu- manu tn are less dressy and less corn corn- tie than Dan leather but can be made cheaper deeper Despite the fact that nan shoe manufacturers made JOO more shoes in 1928 than in inthe inthe inthe the amount of sole leather used s 5 per JU cent less I I competition is also hitting I leather feather manufacturers more morea a In to many years due to cheap 85 labor and what many in the theten deem ten totally inadequate tariff WOO ao L In the Los Angeles trade trade that the reduction in hide val- val recent months Is equivalent to m LOO per weight hundred-weight loss l patter packer er on every steer he buys 1 rung tany other ether packinghouse by- by I products from cattle are enjoying a good market particularly livers ers and hearts the amount of money involved is not sufficient to by any means offset offset offset off- off set the lessened value of hides Thus the meat packer must consider the lessened value of hides and force they the the beef to carry practically the full load when the meat is passed on to the consumer The pressing problem at this time seems to be some means of making leather leatter more popular As long as hides are virtually a drug on the market the packer is up against a very serious problem The hide makes up about 6 per cent of the total weight of a steer r. r so that it may easily be realized that the cattleman is vitally interested interest interest- ed in this problem Just at present many novelties are being made of leather in an effort to broaden the market Truck u ck k and traveling traveling traveling travel travel- ing bag manufacturers are developing a greater market for leather novelty goods through the use of bright colors and they have also taken aken a lesson from fromI the automobile manufacturers in that they are producing new styles and new designs each year ear so that the fastidious fastidious lious ious traveler must buy new luggage more often in order to be in style Perhaps Perhaps Per Fe Per Per- haps this program may aid In developIng developing developing develop develop- ing a greater outlet for leather Then too the draft horse associations are arenow arenow arenow now putting on a well directed campaign campaign campaign cam cam- to again popularize the use of horses and mules on farms Possibly the leather people may be able to tt regain part put of 01 the lost harness goods I market through aiding in such a camI cam cam- I |