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with a continuous layer of salt (white Daskunchak crystalline sait,
the crystals being 3-5 mm in size). The hides are spread out on the
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salt, fur side clown; a layer of salt.1-1.5 cm deep is strewn over them,
and then another layer of hides ofxh± added.
is from 1
to 1.5 metres.
The height of the pile
On the I-'ribylof Islands fur seal hides are preserved by the wet
method, The khoroviny are carefully washed in sait water from a hose
under high pressure. Then they are placed in tanks with circulating
sea-wator for 24 hours. After being washed the khoroviny are scraped,
and then passed tnrough cylindrical rollers, where they are again washed
by strong streams of water and the water is squeezed out.
The washed and squeezed hides are put into a vat With brine,
singly, with the fur upwards, the hides being completely submerged in
the brine. Mixers (paddle wheels) move the hides slowly round the vat
anti-clockwise. During the salting process brine-pumps ensure constant
circulation of the brine, in which the concentration of salt is kept at
a constant level. After being salted the hides are kept drip-drying for
a long time (up to five days) to free them from brine.
Tiefore being sent to the fur-factory the hides are covered with
boric acid and brown medium-grained salt over their • ntire eurface.
In an attempt to accelerate the delivery of marine mammal products
to the industry, one of the Far Eastern sealing schooners was
equipped with a 1'M-2 scraping machine, a FVS-150 sausage-machine, a
super-decanter, and a ISB dirt-separator. That made it possible to
deliver to the industry in port cleaned hides and processed blubber of
high Quality. The question of preserving fur-hides by that method,
however, has not yet been settled.
The Uorwegians have achieved good results in the preservation
of hides. The technological processing of hides on Norwegian ships
consists of five main operations- After te khorovihy have been chilled
they are thoroughly washed with water on both the fur side and the blubber
side. Then they are dried on deck. When the fur is comletely dry
the blubber is scraped off by hand.
The blubber-free hides are tien
an anti-oxidizing agent, particular care being
carefully rubbed with
takil to have the hairs saturated with it, and a thin layer of it is
applied to the scraped side. The treated hides are stacked in the hold,
fur side underneath, carefully flattened out, and covered with a layer
of salt UD 1;0 1.5 cm in depth.