LOSSES ON WARBLED HIDES. 
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affected, with an estimated loss of 2s. 6d. per hide average.” — James 
Watson & Sons, Hide Market, Whitehall Road, Leeds. 
“ The delay in forwarding this letter has been due to my ascer¬ 
taining from our local tanners the effect of warbles on our supply of 
hides. 
“ I have no means of ascertaining definitely, and can only approxi¬ 
mate the following results :— 
“ The hides suffer most severely from March to the end of August 
in each year; they are slightly damaged during the months of February, 
September, and October ; whilst during the other three months of the 
year they show slight traces, after tanning, by the marks left after the 
warble-holes have closed up. 
“ Taking our supply of 50,000 hides (excluding odd numbers) sold 
during 1888, the amount of damage on the following basis would run 
thus :— 
£ s. d. 
2s. 6d. per hide on 9000 hides, being one-third 
received from March 1st to August 31st ... 1125 0 0 
Is. 6d. per hide on 2500 hides, being one-fourth 
received during February, September, and 
October. 187 10 0 
9d. per hide on 3000 hides, being one-fourth 
received during November, December, and 
January . 11210 0 
Total . 1425 0 0 
“Adopting another basis of calculation, taking the average to be 
25 per cent, from March 1st to October 31st, and 12^ per cent, for the 
remaining portion of the year, and taking the damage at an average of 
2s. Gd. per hide, the result would be £1250. 
“ I am inclined to think that both these estimates considerably 
under-rate the mischief done, and would especially point out that these 
figures refer only to the deterioration to the sale of the hides in a 
green state, and do not take into account the loss to the tanner on the 
finished article being depreciated in value, or the cost of labour and 
materials expended in producing leather which when finished is found 
to be unfit for the purpose intended. 
“Another very important matter is the deterioration of the animal 
whilst living,” &c. — W. H. Hill, manager to the Sheffield Butchers’ 
Hide and Skin Co., Limited. 
“ I should say” the warble “ makes from a farthing to sometimes a 
penny per pound difference to the butcher (about four or five shillings 
each hide difference).”—From a communication on the general bearing 
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