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WARBLES. 
“ From the reports received, the approximate percentage of grubby ▼ 
cattle and the average loss on grubby hides for the principal stock- 
raising States of the Mississippi Valley have been estimated as follows 
(August 7th, 1889):— 
“Illinois.—Seventy-three percent, of the cattle marketed in the 
grubby season are infested with grubs. The average loss on a grubby 
hide is one-third. 
“ Iowa.—Seventy-one per cent, of the cattle in the majority of 
counties are grubby in the season specified. Loss on grubby hides, 
one-third. 
“Indiana.—Forty-eight per cent, of the cattle grubby. Loss on 
hides, one-tliird. 
“ Wisconsin.—Thirty-three per cent, of cattle grubby. Loss on 
hides, one-tliird. 
“ Ohio.—Fifty-six per cent, of cattle grubby. Loss on hides, one- 
third. 
“ Missouri.—Fifty-seven per cent, of cattle grubby. Loss on hides, 
one-tliird. 
“ Kansas.—Sixty per cent, of cattle grubby. Loss on hides, one- 
tliird. 
“Kentucky.—Fifty-seven per cent, of cattle grubby. Loss on 
hides, one-third. 
“ In Minnesota and Dakota, grubs are practically unknown among 
cattle. 
“ In Nebraska, they are not very bad where found; twelve counties 
report an average of forty per cent. The rest heard from are free of 
the pest. Grubby hides are ‘ docked’ one-third of their value. 
“ In Michigan, sixty-one per cent, of the cattle are infested with 
grubs in the southern and middle counties. In the northern counties 
they are unknown, or very scarce. Grubby hides sell for one-tliird less 
than sound ones. 
“The amount of this loss can be better appreciated, perhaps, by 
reproducing in condensed form the approximate estimate of the loss 
on the hides of cattle received at the Union Stock-yards of Chicago 
during the grubby season, which includes the months from January to 
June. Using the reports by States above given as a basis, it is 
estimated that fifty per cent, of the cattle received are grubby. The 
average value of a hide is put at 3*90 dollars; and while, from the 
report referred to, one-third value is the usual deduction for grubby 
hides in this estimate, but 1 dollar is deducted, or less than one-tliird. 
The number of cattle received in 1889 for the six months indicated 
was 1,335,026, giving a loss on the fifty per cent, of grubby animals, 
667,513 dollars. 'When to this is added the loss from depreciated value 
and lessened quantity of the beef, the amount for each infested animal f 
