DEATH FROM WABBLK- ATTACK. XVU 



the liquid from the mash. We left her at night to all appearance as 

 lively as usual, but the next morning we found her dead. 



" When taking off the skin, I found from the shoulders to the hips 

 bored one complete riddle with warble-maggots. 



"In counting, I found no less than 310 holes; on taking it to th^ 

 tan-yard, they pronounced it good for nothing. 



" There is no doubt the warbles were the cause of death. 



" It will be a great blessing for the poor cattle if something is found 

 out to remove the pest." 



On June 16tli the following note was sent me by Mr, John B. 

 Gelding, of Baunmore, Clare, Galway, Ireland, regarding serious 

 amount of injury from warbles :— 



" Owing to the prolonged excessive heat last summer, the warble- 

 pest has done great injury to young cattle in this district, causing death 

 in some instances by their numbers, from March last up to this." 



Another note on the same subject was sent me on May 15th, by 

 Mr. Thomas Barrett Lennard, of Horsford Manor, Norwich, who 

 wrote : — 



*' Many of my beasts have bumps, but one — which is so thin and 

 wretched that he seems not long for this world^s one mass of 

 bumps." 



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Fig. 14. — Piece of yearling skin with 402 warble-holes. 



From specimens then sent to myself, I was able to speak personally 

 to the serious extent to which the attack would run on. In one of the 



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