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is put at 5 dollars, indicating a total loss on these animals from the 
attack of the Fly of 3,337,565 dollars.”* 
As it is of a good deal of interest to be able in some degree to 
compare the proportion of Warble-presence in infested cattle, and also 
estimates of rate of money-loss thereby in countries which (as in the 
present case) suffer connectedly by reason of cattle-traffic from this 
cause, I add the following abstract of the information which was placed 
in my hands in 1888, and published in detail with the names of the 
contributors to whom I was indebted for it in my Annual Report on 
Injurious Insects for that year. The abstract of this being made with 
all possible care for my official report as Entomologist to the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England, I give this with acknowledgment of it 
being a re-publication :— 
“ On March 5th, 1889, I submitted the following abstract of 
information with which I had been favoured in replies to my many 
enquiries regarding amount of money-loss on hides from Warble-injury 
(during one year, or during the Warble-season) from several of the 
chief hide market companies or inspection societies—namely, from 
Aberdeen, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
Nottingham, Sheffield, &c. 
Portion of inside of tanned warbled hide. 
“ Quoting generally from these,—as I cannot give full details in the 
space now allowable,—the number of hides passing through these 
markets respectively are from about 80,000 and upwards to three or 
four times that number in the year—in some instances the numbers 
* See “ Insect Life.” ‘ Periodical Bulletin of U.S.A. Department of Agriculture ’ 
for Nov., 1889 (vol. ii., No. 5, pp. 156, 157). Washington, Government Printing 
Office. 
