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In the following notes observations have been chosen from great 

 numbers, just to show the variety of applications that answer, and 

 that various firms furnish them ; but readers will please observe that 

 this is without prejudice of others, whose manufactures, so long as 

 the above-mentioned conditions of the dressing were held to, and 

 due care exercised in applying them, could not fail to have good 

 effects. 



The following observations, with which I was favoured on June 

 5th, by Mr. Gerard Meynell (of the Norfolk Estuary Company), writing 

 from 20, Whitehall Place, Loudon, S.W., refer to the successful use of 

 Calvert's carbolic sheep-wash for destroying warble-maggot : — 



" For some years past the sheep on this Company's farm at Lynn 

 have been dipped in a solution of Messrs. F. C. Calvert & Co. 's carbolic 

 sheep- wash, — 80 to 100 of water to 1 of the carbolic wash supplied, — 

 which has effectually kept them free from all scab, lice, ticks, fleas, 

 &c. Last week I examined the Company's herd, and found some of 

 them affected with warbles. I had a somewhat stronger solution of 

 the carbolic sheep-wash applied to the parts affected. On the following 

 day all the warbles appeared to be dead ; the more mature ones 

 certainly were so " (1888, as also the three following notes). 



Mr. J. Stewart Peter, of Calley, Bridge of Calley, Perthshire, on 

 June 20th, sent me the following note, suggestive of dilute carbolic 

 acid being in some cases better than greasy applications : — 



"I have dressed a number of short-horn crosses as directed, and 

 feel sure that they will derive great benefit from it. I rather object to 

 dressing my West Highlanders, though, with an oily or greasy mixture, 

 as it will mat their shaggy hair, and prejudice the English buyers 

 against them when they come north in November. I think for them 

 carbolic acid and water ought to suffice." 



The two following observations refer to successful use of ointment 

 prepared by the Dee Oil Company, Chester. The first was forwarded 

 to me by Sir James T. Stewart Kichardson, Bart., of Pitfour Castle, 

 Perth, N.B. :— 



" I have been trying a new warble ointment this summer, from 

 the Dee Oil Company, Chester, and the effect on the maggots in the 

 warbles was marvellous, and I am now dressing all my cattle to pre- 

 vent the fly striking next month." 



Miss Lyle Smith, writing from Barrowmore Farm, Chester, also 

 sent the following note ; — 



"You may be interested to know that the Dee Oil Company, in 

 Chester, prepare a kind of grease of which they send samples gratis 

 to any farmer who will try it. I found it most efficacious, as did also 

 a neighbour, who had lost a heifer simply from attack of this creature 

 [warble-maggot — Ed.] in the spring." 



