liv WARBLE FLY. 



amateur breeder and keeper of stock, noted as a report of the success 

 of his treatment m 1889 : — " I am glad to say that I beheve the fly 

 has not been anything Hke so troublesome about here this season as it 

 has usually been. I have never seen my cattle at all distressed by it. 

 I may mention that I have employed common salt for the destruction 

 of the grub this season with good results. I bought some young 

 cattle of very nice quality in the early summer ; they were terribly 

 infested with grubs. I had their backs damped, and salt well rubbed 

 in, and this was repeated about a week later. The result was that 

 every grub was destroyed." 



Very many other dressiugs have been duly recorded as found to 

 answer ; but in looking over the United States returns I do not find 

 that there is any dressing or treatment better than oars, unless it 

 may be a greater use of salt and water, or brine, for washing the coats 

 of the animals. This is an old-fashioned but apparently very good 

 preventive measure, which is noted by Mr. Henry Thompson as used 

 in the North of England, and the application of it by rubbing it well 

 on with a ivisp of straw (as mentioned by one of the U.S.A. reporters) 

 would probably be very serviceable in removing eggs ; and getting the 

 wash thoroughly in amongst the hair, and well down into the minute 

 hair-like channels through the hide, at the bottom of which we find 

 the maggot in the very earliest stage at which the infestation is easily 

 observable. 



In the foregoing pages observations are given of various easy 

 methods of destroying the Warble Fly maggot by stifling it in its cell, 

 poisoning it, &c. ; but there is yet another method which, when 

 circumstances allow (such as condition of the hide, and open state of 

 warble), is probably the best of all, namely, squeezing out the maggot, 

 and thus getting entirely rid of it at once. 



This requires no outlay in mixtures, no trouble in looking them 

 up, and careful application of them when needed, but is what may be 

 done by any man or boy on the farm, and which commonly (especially 

 in the case of the boys) they enjoy doing. Where care is bestowed on 

 the subject, squeezing out may usefully follow on killing by smears, &o., 

 in the hide, and healing up happen sooner, and also there will be 

 proof that the work was thoroughly done. 



During the irhule course of our ten years' ivork we have been kept 

 constantly aware of the success of the plan acted on (that is, destroying 

 in the maggot form) preventing recurrence of attack. It is obvious 

 indeed that if it had not answered, the plan would not have been gone 

 on with, and in the preceding pages reports of the success of this have 

 been given; but I just add a few below, received in 1889 (taken from 

 many others), regarding benefit obtained. 



The following note, with which I was favoured on September 21st 



