GOOD RESULTS OF TREATMENT. Iv 



by the Hon. Cecil Parker, from the Eaton Estate Office, Eccleston, 

 Chester, also mentions the attack having been nearly got rid of: — 

 " I am quite sure that more notice has been taken of the means of 

 destroying the warble. As far as our own cattle are concerned, we 

 have nearly exterminated them by killing the maggot in the beast, and 

 also by smearing the backs of the stock twice in the season. If the 

 farmers could be persuaded that they lose money, — in cows by the 

 milk getting less, and by the beasts losing flesh, — they would take 

 more interest " (1889, as also three following notes). 



Sir J. Stewart Eichardson, Bart., of Pitfour Castle, Perth, N.B., 

 writing on September Slth, similarly mentioned benefit following the 

 care taken : — " For the last three years I have been waging war 

 against the warble-pest, and think I have done a good deal to alleviate 

 the sufferings of my cattle, and the result is that I have nothing to 

 complain of as to the way they have fed." 



In September last, Mr. J. Kisdon, Auctioneer of the Devon Cattle 

 Breeders' Society, writing from Golsoncott Farm, near Taunton, 

 mentioned that last spring he had all the animals in his own herd 

 dressed with sulphur and lard, which, he believed, killed every maggot 

 in their skins. He further added: — "There are many farmers who 

 at first regarded the Warble Fly as a mere 'fad,' who are now anxious 

 to use means to relieve their cattle of the pest." — J. R. 



Mr. Henry Thorp Hincks (Auctioneer), Silver Street, Leicester, 

 wrote on April 9th, with regard to success of preventive measures; — 

 " Out of a herd of over seventy head dressed last year for warbles, this 

 season one cow only has one warble upon it." — H. T. H. 



These show success in the special localities reported from ; but the 

 manner in which, by steady quiet attention, the warble-presence in 

 the cattle-farming district round Bunbury and Tarporley was reduced 

 from its enormous prevalence a few years ago down to the result of 

 most careful search only bringing in twenty maggots, is a very 

 important record. 



This has been the work of the boys of the AUlersey Grammar School at 

 Bunbury, Tarporley, Cheshire, at first under the suggestion and instruc- 

 tion of the Head Master, Mr. W. Bailey, but now contmued also from 

 the benefit accruiug to the cattle and thence to their owners. 



The majority of the boys of the school are sons of farmers, and 

 the returns therefore show the benefit of the treatment, whether on 

 the broad scale of the many head of cattle owned by tenants of large 

 farms under the Duke of Westminster or other great land -owners, 

 or to the one or two cows of a small holder, to whom the health of 

 his animals is even more important. 



We (I can say ive, as I had the pleasure of co-operating with Mr. 



