LOSSES ON WARBLED HIDES. 



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Total Market Hides. 



Total 



58738 



45813 



104551 



" Taking the warble months as February to May inclusive, we find 

 the proportion of second class to be 56 per cent., while from June to 

 December the proportion is only about 36 per cent., being, on a fair 

 calculation, an increase of 20 per cent, on account of Avarbles. 



" If we then take the number slaughtered in February to May as 

 about 36,000, we find 20 per cent, on that number yield 7200 warbled 

 hides : damaged by warbles to the extent of (say) one penny per 

 pound, at an average of 60 lbs. per hide, shows J6180O as the loss thus 

 incurred. 



" Further, we may legitimately add that, as the cost of manu- 

 facture is the same as for sound hides, the loss to the community or 

 national wealth will show double the amount, or in round numbers a 

 loss of £4000 annually in the district. 



" No account is here made of Irish and country hides, of which 

 we pass about 50,000 annually, and among which the damage is 

 probably in a higher ratio than the others." — Messrs. Eobert Eamsey 

 & Co., Auction Brokers, Hides, &c., Greeudyke Street, Glasgow, N.B. 



The following table, with which I am favoured by Messrs. W. 

 Murray & Son, of Aberdeen, gives the number of sound hides, and 

 number of warbled hides, and estimated loss per week thereon from 

 February 3rd to June 29th inclusive, and includes all the hides in 

 Aberdeen, viz., those of Messrs. Murray, and those sold by the Co- 

 operative Company. 



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