THE HIDE TRADE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7019, 6 January 1910, Page 3

THE HIDE TRADE

NEW UNITED STATES REGULATION. Customs officers in America are, now divided to treat hides of cattle shipped to the United States without proper disinfection as prohibited importations, and to refuse entry to skins of such hides, including calf skins, hide cuttings and parings, or glue cstock, the product of neat cattle from -Great Britain, Ireland, tho Channel Islands- and the countries of North America, including Mexico, except where .such entries have been sundried or arsonic-curod or lime-dried. Exception has also been made in the case of abattoir hides, the product of Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, and hides taken from American cattle killed in “ lairages " in Great Britain. Disinfection of such hides or their “storage in general order warehouse will not be permitted for the reason that the passage of the diseased hides through tho country, or their storage , with other goods, will tend to dissemination of cattle disease in the United States." Hides, however, can bo ini ported upon being accompanied by certificates of disinfection signed by the American Consul for the district from which they are shipped, except hard suu-dried and arsenic-cured hides from tho countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. The regulations respecting importations of the latter hides call for disinfection by sulphur dioxide, or with a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid, except whoro anthrax is prevalent.