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Show Bigger Prices for Hides The appearance of eight-cent hides on the New York market seems, to some interests, no less important than eight-cent cotton or twenty-two-cent wool. Hides are the foundation of the several great leather industries which often have shared with the cloth manufacturers in leadership of recovery from depression. Higher-priced Higher-priced hides mean activity in the factories fac-tories and more wage Incomes for buyers of farm products. The cattle industry feels more directly the benefit bene-fit of changes which increase the market mar-ket value of the herds. The prices of these three leading farm-grown materials, cotton, wool and hides, are now back somewhere near the former level. Rural New Yorker. |