LOSSES ON WARBLED HIDES. 35 
Total Market Hides. 
1888. 
Firsts. 
Seconds. 
Totals. 
January . 
5820 
3361 
9181 
February . 
5476 
5892 
11368 
March . 
3541 
4559 
8100 
April. 
3582 
3922 
7504 
May. 
3229 
5618 
8847 
June. 
3144 
3770 
6914 
July . 
3283 
3231 
6514 
August . 
5020 
3728 
8748 
September 
4857 
3084 
7941 
October . 
7228 
3451 
10679 
November. 
6747 
2647 
9394 
December. 
6811 
2550 
9361 
Total 
58738 
45813 
104551 
“ Taking the warble months as February to May inclusive, we find 
the proportion of second class to be 56 per cent., while from June to 
December the proportion is only about 36 per cent., being, on a fair 
calculation, an increase of 20 per cent, on account of warbles. 
“ If we then take the number slaughtered in February to May as 
about 36,000, we find 20 per cent, on that number yield 7200 warbled 
hides: damaged by warbles to the extent of (say) one penny per 
pound, at an average of 60 lbs. per hide, shows .£1800 as the loss thus 
incurred. 
“ Further, we may legitimately add that, as the cost of manu¬ 
facture is the same as for sound hides, the loss to the community or 
national wealth will show double the amount, or in round numbers a 
loss of £4000 annually in the district. 
“ No account is here made of Irish and country hides, of which 
we pass about 50,000 annually, and among which the damage is 
probably in a higher ratio than the others.” — Messrs. Robert Ramsey 
& Co., Auction Brokers, Hides, &c., Greendyke Street, Glasgow, N.B. 
The following table, with which I am favoured by Messrs. W. 
Murray & Son, of Aberdeen, gives the number of sound hides, and 
number of warbled hides, and estimated loss per week thereon from 
February 3rd to June 29th inclusive, and includes all the hides in 
Aberdeen, viz., those of Messrs. Murray, and those sold by the Co¬ 
operative Company. 
