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Losses by Damage to Warbled Hides. 
In the following pages I submit some extracts from the infor¬ 
mation with which I was favoured in reply to my enquiries 
regarding amount of money-loss on hides from warble injury 
(during one year, or during the warble season) from several of our 
chief hide markets, companies or associations engaged in business 
in hides, namely, from Aberdeen, Birmingham, Boston, Bristol, 
Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Not¬ 
tingham and Sheffield. 
Most of these were placed in my hands in the year 1888, when 
I was especially collecting information on Warble Fly attack and 
its effects. 
Portion of inside of tanned warbled hide. 
Quoting generally from these,—before giving some tables of 
more exact details,—the number of hides passing through these 
markets respectively were from about 30,000 and upwards to three 
or four times that number in the year—in some instances the 
numbers exceeded 100,000 in the year, and in two instances 
amounted respectively to about 130,000 per year, and to near 
on 150,000. 
The estimates of loss per hide at the markets vary from about 
2s 6d. to 5s., or sometimes over that sum per warbled hide, and the 
