PUTREFACTION IN CATTLE HIDES

Abstract

THE best method of drying hides is to lace them flat in a frame and dry them with access of air to both sides. Some delay between flaying and the suspension of the hide for drying is inevitable. Commercial practice has allowed this delay to extend to several hours, sometimes to 1-2 days. Experiments were therefore carried out at Kano in Nigeria and at Isiolo and Mombasa in Kenya (Results of Delayed Drying Trials in Nigeria and Kenya”, Bull. Imperial Institute, 40, No. 2 ; 1942). These three places represent a series of conditions of increasing atmospheric humidity and, to a less degree, increasing mean shade temperature, Kano having considerably the driest and slightly the coolest mean shade temperature and Mombasa the wettest and warmest.