APPLICATIONS. liii 



On June 21st, 1889, Mr. G. F. Street, writing from Mcaulden, 

 Anipthill, observed: — "Warbles are getting quite stamped out now on 

 our two farms, as for the past three years we have not had on an 

 average one dozen warbles on from sixty to seventy head of cattle, 

 mostly young stock. We always use the McDougall's smear, and find 

 it a safe remedy." — G. F. S. 



In a letter from Messrs. J. R. and R. R. Kirkham, of Biscathorpe, 

 Lincoln, the Warble Fly paste, manufactured by Messrs. Tomlinson 

 and Hayward, of Lincoln, is mentioned as very efficacious, not only 

 by preventing the fly striking (if put on in time), but, if this has not 

 been the case, by killing the maggot. This paste is mentioned as 

 better than a liquid cure, for it is easier to use, adheres much longer 

 on the cattle's back, and is not so easily washed off by the rain (1894). 



The following report from Mr. F. C. Smith, of Clayton Park 

 Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne, who bestowed much time and trouble 03i 

 drawing attention to the subject of warble prevention, was sent me 

 on June 4th, 1888 :— 



" I lately met Mr. James Kenton, tenant of North and South 

 Brackley farms, near Blagdon, to whom I gave a copy of your notes 

 about a year ago, and who then told me that his stock — numbering 

 about forty head— were infested with warbles. He forthwith com- 

 menced to use a dressing =<= composed of train oil and sulphur, of the 

 consistence of thick cream, which he applied to the warbles with most 

 excellent results; and later on, in August, he dressed them with the 

 same preparation, — over the shoulders, and along the spine, and down 

 to the hocks." 



He reports that no warbles are upon stock of his own breeding, 

 although he has had much trouble with Irish stock brought to fatten 

 off; and that many of his neighbours are in a bad way with their 

 stock suffering from warbles, and these people are now going to adopt 

 the same remedial measures as my informant has proved to be so 

 effectual. 



On June 14th Mr. Ernest Mead, who had communicated with me 

 before on the subject of warbles, from 1, Western Road, Tring, wrote 

 as the result of his application of oil and sulphur to the back of cattle 

 in the previous summer : — 



"As regards some three-year-old bullocks that were dressed, I have 

 kept some of them till quite recently. After examining them several 

 times I have not seen a trace of warble." 



Relatively to the effect of salt in destroying the maggots, Mr. Edw. 

 Argyle, writing from Tamworth, with the mention that he was an 



* Mr.Eenton says that a gallon of train oil, costing three shillings, and sulphur, 

 costing say threepence, was sufficient to dress thirty-two head once. 



