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WARBLE FLY. 
of the subject, by Mr. Joseph Wing, Hide, Skin, and Fat Broker, 
16, Pen Street, Boston. 
11 Pie warbles, we give you particulars as far as possible. The 
number of bides sold in the Hide Market in Liverpool and the 
American Lairage in Birkenhead is about 130,000 per year; this is 
exclusive of the bides under 30 lbs., which we call kips. 
“ We reckon the warbled bides to be—in the month of February, 
20 per cent. ; in March, 45 per cent.; in April, 30 per cent. ; and in 
May, 20 per cent. 
“ The average weight of the above 130,000 we calculate at 65 lbs. 
each, and the loss in price at three farthings per pound.” * — Messrs. 
Whinyates, Webster, McNaught & Co., Hide, Skin, and Fat Brokers, 
The Market, Gill Street, Liverpool. 
“ I regret I am unable to give you any reliable information respecting 
warbled hides, as in this neighbourhood we have never kept a separate 
class and account of them. 
“ Here we have thrown them into the same class as cut hides and 
damaged hides, and previous to some years ago we passed them as 
sound hides unless they were badly warbled. 
“ The Bristol slaughter of beasts would be about 700 per week, 
and during the summer and autumn months fully one-third of this 
number would be warbled. Some of the heavier hides would lose in 
consequence ten shillings per hide, and even more; but taking the 
heavy hides and light hides together, their average loss would be not 
less than five shillings per hide.”! — William Willis, Bristol and 
Western Counties Butchers’ Hide and Skin Co., Limited, 88, Thomas 
Street, Bristol. 
“In our market we have a system of inspection for all market 
hides, being hides of cattle slaughtered in Glasgow and neighbourhood 
for food purposes only. Under this system the hides are classified,— 
first and second classes, the latter being faulty flayed, and warbled 
hides. 
“Referring to enclosed sheet you may note that in 1888 the total 
number of such hides have been 104,551. 
* “We handle large numbers of liorse-hides, and we never saw a warbled 
horse-hide.” 
f “ Taking the above estimate of 700 hides per week, would give 36,400 in the 
year, and 12,133 for four months (say) May to August inclusive. One-third of this 
amount (that is, 4044 hides), estimated to be warbled at a loss of five shillings per 
hide, would show a loss of £1011,” 
