WARBLE FLY. 
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Particulars of injury and difference in price per pound of sound and 
warbled hides of different classes. 
I am favoured by Messrs. Fry and Company, Leather and Hide 
Factors, Birmingham, with the particulars given on the accompanying 
tables (overleaf) of the numbers of sound and warbled hides at one of 
the three Birmingham markets, and the price each parcel sold at from 
the beginning of the warbled season, viz., Feb. 14tli to the end, 
Sept. 19th, 1885. 
These details, it will be seen, extend over a duration of thirty-two 
weeks, and include price per pound of “ ordinary ” and “ extra flayed” 
hide (marked down the third column as “o” and “x” respectively), 
as well as of those which are warbled. 
By casting the eye along the columns it will be seen that the first 
three heavy classes, namely, those of 95 lbs. and upwards, 85 to 94lbs., 
and 75 to 84 lbs., which are all or nearly all ox-liides, do not suffer as 
much as the three following. These last—that is, the classes weighing 
65 to 74 lbs., 56 to 64 lbs., and 55 lbs. and under, are principally 
heifer hides, and are the greatest sufferers. Bulls’ hides are stated, 
as a rule, to be also very much warbled, but as these are not what is 
termed “thrown out,” but sold (sound and warbled) together, the 
proportion of warbled hide could not be given. 
The following abstract of the larger tables is given for convenience 
of reference. The amount sold during the thirty-two weeks of sound 
and of warbled hides may thus be conveniently compared, together 
with the highest and lowest prices per pound of each. The sound 
hides include both the ordinary and the extra flayed. 
Abstract of table overleaf, with particulars of different classes of hides 
sold during warbled season of thirty-two weeks from February 14 th to 
September 19 th, 1885. 
Weight and description of 
classes of Hides. 
No. 
of Sound 
Hides. 
Highest and 
lowest prices 
per lb. 
No. of 
Warbled 
Hides. 
Highest and 
lowest prices 
per lb. 
95 lbs. and upwards... 
621 
5d. to 6d. 
68 
4^-d. to 54d. 
85 lbs. to 94 lbs. 
911 
4|d. to 5fd. 
138 
4§d. to 4Jd. 
75 lbs. to 84 lbs. 
1495 
4fd. to 5fd. 
306 
4d. to 4fd. 
65 lbs. to 74 lbs. 
1789 
4d. to 4|d. 
541 
3|d. to 4^d. 
56 lbs. to 64 lbs. 
1692 
3^d. to 4|d. 
497 
3id. to 4-|d. 
55 lbs. and under. 
873 
3fd. to 4fd. 
305 
34d. to 4^d. 
Heavy cow-hides . 
1193 
3fd. to 4|d. 
140 
34d. to 4d. 
Light cow-hides . 
1382 
3§d. to 4fd. 
151 
3^-d. to 3§d. 
9956 
2146 
I have been also favoured with the information that the selection 
for warbles commenced in the previous year (1884) on February 14tli, 
