Show IN TANNING kew mexico So Sour doek root boot may change chance th whole industry Indu atry in tanning bides the sooner decay which begins with the death of an animal dan be arrested the better win will be the leather A hide bide Is heavily beadil v salted and sent to a tannery whore where it is immersed in water that particles ot 0 flesh adhering to the inner side may be scraped away it Is then soaked in urn ime water twelve hours to rein remove Dve the hair after being scoured and depilated by a macine mac lne it is ready for the tanning fluid it has been D s sary to let it lie in a bark solution for three months being moved drained led and manipulated many times durin the process if the solution of ta tas 11 bark Is too strong the hide bide may be d destroyed st for young scientists have experimented with different substances I 1 hoping to shorten the time necesser necess necessary jr y I 1 for the perfect preparation of hides recently it has been found that ca malgre or so pose possesses esses brojer ties which show that it is indicated by nature for preserving purposes it is impossible to burn bum leather iu in its solution the cells cella of a hide will as absorb rb benough enough to tan it in twelve hours ani and I 1 will take no more in a few hours houm varying w with alth the substance to be 1 treated the tannic acid in the re will have done its work saving three months t time I 1 m e and a deal of labor the cost of planting cultivating in iani band and harvesting an acre of is estimated at 1050 1650 the yield is from twelve to twenty tons an acre on new land and ribes with cultivation the returns vary from 65 to 75 per ton on sliced ariu drying shrinks the luct two thirds but it is said that the pro pm ducer can count on a clear gain of ruo per acre chicago inter ocean |