Value of dead Horses.
the value of dead horses asks a contemporary. It is to be feared not, yet there is a " going concern " Am.O regon where every dead horse worth quite 24 dollars, parfc of 3W-ich produces Cordovan leather, another part is made infco driving gloves. The uses of the hair from the tail and mane are well understood, but everybody may not know that the hoofs yield an excellent oil as well as glue, and a horny substance appreciated by comb manufacturers ; the leg bones furnish good knife handles and several chemicals, including, strange to say, cyanide of potassium are the results of burning the skeleton. Sometimes, it is cynically added, the meat is canned and exported fco Europe as Ol flaairatiln -_r_*m /vf tinner! Vinaf I
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Manawatu Herald, 11 April 1896, Page 3
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129Value of dead Horses. Manawatu Herald, 11 April 1896, Page 3
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