21 MARCH 1914, Page 15

"SKIVERS."

[To Tee EDITOR OF rue “Brscr■Toa."]

Sin,—With reference to "skivers." As a director of a leather company, may I ask you to find space for my letter ? Sheep- skins are fellmongered by removing the wool—the skin is then termed a pelt; this, after a period in a pit of lime-water, is split in a splitting machine into two skins, the inner (next the body of the animal) being termed a lining, the outer a grain. It is this latter which is tanned with shumao and becomes the skiver of commerce.—I am, Sir, Am.,