TIME OF WARBLE PRESENCE. 185 
Careful study of the detailed (folding) tables, from which the above 
is abridged, is well worth while for those practically interested. They 
show the different time over which attack extends from February 14th, 
and that it certainly cannot be considered as stopping in July. We 
find it in the three lighter classes of hides as still present on Sept. 19th, 
but it is worth some notice that three heavy classes did not contain 
warbled hides at a much earlier date. The heaviest ox-hides, 95 |b. 
and upwards, were free after May 30th, and the two others of these 
heavy classes were free (save two hides in one class and one in the 
other) respectively after June 27th and July 18th. 
To the above I add some short notes of duration of warble from 
information given me by the secretaries or managers of various of our 
hide or butchers’ societies or companies specified. 
‘“We should say that during the months of March to August 
inclusive there will be fully 60 per cent. of the hides more or less 
affected, with an estimated loss of 2s. 6d. per hide average.” 
Warson & Sons, Hide Market, Whitehall Road, Leeds. 
‘‘ Warbles begin to show in March and continue until October.” — 
W. B. Wauuzourn, Secretary, Nottingham Hide, Skin and Fat Market 
Company, Limited. 
“We reckon the warbled hides to be—in the month of February, 
20 per cent.; in March, 45 per cent.; in April, 30 per cent.; and in 
May, 20 per cent.’-—Messrs. Wuinyates, Wezster, McNavcur & Co., 
Hide, Skin and Fat Brokers, The Market, Gill Street, Liverpool. 
‘The Bristol slaughter of beasts would be about 700 per week, and 
during the summer and autumn months fully one-third of this number 
would be warbled.”,—Wituram Wixuts, Bristol and Western Counties 
Butchers’ Hide and Skin Co., Limited, 88, Thomas Street, Bristol. 
‘‘T have no means of ascertaining definitely, and can only ap- 
proximate the following results :—The hides suffer most severely from 
March to the end of August in each year; they are slightly damaged 
during the months of February, September, and October; whilst 
during the other three months of the year they show slight traces, 
after tanning, by the marks left after the warble holes have closed up. 
Taking our supply of 50,000 hides (excluding odd numbers) sold during 
1888, the amount of damage on the following basis would run thus :— 
£ Saas 
JAMES 
2s. 6d. per hide on 9000 hides, being one-third 
received from March 1st to August 31st... ... 1125 0 0 
1s. 6d. per hide on 2500 hides, being one-fourth re- 
ceived during February, September, and October 187 10 0 
9d. per hide on 3000 hides, being one-fourth re- 
ceived during November, December, and January 11210 0 
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