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ment is quite inefficient. Insanitary heaps of neglected 

 manure, which terribly swarm with maggots, much 

 deteriorate in horticultural value. 



Farmyards and the scattered dwellings of rural 

 districts remain to be considered, and no doubt 

 herein the difficulty is great, but not hopeless. The 

 latter will be persuaded to follow suit when the 

 good effects of town and suburban policy become 

 apparent. 



Something more than usual is desirable for the pro- 

 tection of cattle from the breeze and the cestrid flies 

 at midsummer. The latter, at all events, could be 

 easily exterminated by giving butterfly nets and en- 

 couragement to children, who would enjoy the fun, 

 Although the close approach of strangers may alarm 

 grazing animals, after the latter have galloped away a 

 very good chance will occur of capturing the slow 

 flying gravid female worble-fly with a butterfly net, 

 or of felling her to the ground with a suitable instru- 

 ment; if missed on the first attempt, other chances 

 can be got again and again by waiting until the said 

 same fly has returned to threaten her intended victims. 

 The writer has often succeeded in felling the slow 

 flying gravid female worble-fly with a mere walking 

 stick. It is strange that no farmers' entomological 

 friend has hitherto suggested so common-sense a 

 remedy as butterfly nets, which should be of a dark 

 green colour. A company of our popular boy scouts, 

 marching in a skirmishing line on an August Bank 

 Holiday (or a preceding Saturday), over ground where 

 grazing animals are observed showing behaviour con- 

 spicuously indicative of attacks by cestrid flies, would 



