OX WARBLE FLY. 
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“ Particulars of seven weeks’ supply of six classes of hides, being 
the total of each class of sound and warbled sold at two markets in 
Birmingham, commencing May 3rd up to and including June 14th, 
1884, and showing the actual loss of each class of warbled hide :— 
Six Classes of Hides, 
No. of 
Hides.* 
No. of Sold at, less than 
Loss on 
Weight from— 
Sound. 
Warbled. the Sound— 
each Class. 
95 lbs. and upwards 
286 
Per lb. 
67 |d. 
or 
Per hide. 
6s. 3d. 
£ 
20 
s. 
18 
d. 
0 
85 lbs. to 94 lbs. ... 
446 
222 Id. 
>> 
6s. Id. 
73 
1 
6 
75 „ 84 „ ... 
754 
373 Id. 
6s. 8d. 
124 
6 
8 
65 „ 74 „ ... 
881 
579 Id. 
>> 
5s. lOd. 
168 
17 
6 
56 „ 64 „ ... 
629 
441 Id. 
5s. 
110 
5 
0 
55 lbs. and under... 
283 
224 Id. 
»» 
4s. 3d. 
47 
12 
0 
Totals 
3279 
1906 
545 
0 
8 
“ It will be observed that of the total number of hides (viz., 5185) 
over one-third were warbled ; and looking merely at one line of the 
figures, it shows that out of 1460 hides, ranging from 65 to 74 lbs. 
weight, 579 were lessened in value at the rate of Id. per pound, or 
5 s. 10 d. per hide, giving a total loss on these of £168 17s. 6c?.” 
The accompanying Table, with which also I was favoured by 
Messrs. Fry & Co., of Birmingham, gives particulars of the numbers 
of sound and warbled hides sold at one of the Birmingham markets, 
and the price each parcel sold at, from the beginning of the warbled 
season, viz., February 14th, to the end, September 19th, in 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 94 lbs., 
and 75 to 84 lbs., which are all or nearly all ox-hides, 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 
* The above Table was given in my Eighth Annual Report of Observations of 
Injurious Insects, and the Table next following in my Report of the succeeding 
year (Ninth Report; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., publishers); and with these, as 
bearing very practically on the subject, I reprint some parts of the explanation of 
the Tables, and information with which I was then kindly favoured by Messrs. Fry 
and Co., Birmingham. 
