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examine them, this would meet part of tlie trouble. If lie did not 

 L-now Lis work they would discharge him ; and if he did, his wages 

 would, divided as an outgoing payment from the body of hig employers, 

 be a great saving to them. 



This would not meet the loss on hide from former injury ; it would 

 not meet the losses from coming-on injury; again quoting Mr. Hill's 

 letter to me of the 13th inst. on these points : — " A warbled hide 

 THIS year will bear signs, and is damaged by the result of last year, 

 even when externally nothing could be detected. So, when the 

 maggots are small, or have left their cells, the damage is still there, 

 but by casual inspection not so easily discernible" (W. H. H.). But 

 it would do something. 



The great loss from "licked beef" and "jelly" ranges, of course, 

 with the height of the warble-season. After that is over there is not 

 the same need for care (see remarks by Mr. John Child, Manager of 

 the Leeds and District Hide, &c., Co., at pp. 20, 21). Therefore, the 

 expense of examination for this part of the trouble would be only for 

 a portion of the year. Some butchers are well aware of the bearing 

 of the matter, some obviously not ; and if all could be got to be on the 

 alert, even about this one part when the attack is obvious to moderate 

 examination, it would do something towards saving loss. 



At present we seem to be just in the condition described by Prof. 

 Riley, the late Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture of the 

 U. S. A., when, after the widespread American investigation in 1889, 

 he was requested to take up the question officially. After some 

 observations on the bearing of the subject, in which he greatly 

 noticed our British observations and recommendations, he said he 

 considered there was little to be done, excepting continuing the enquiry 

 on statistical lines similar to those which had been already followed by 

 the investigators ; also, that even admitting that some more careful 

 observations might be made on one or two points, that " these are 

 points of biologic interest rather than of economic importance." 

 Therefore, as the case stood, Prof. Riley, speaking officially, stated 

 that, as regarded investigation with a view to fuller statistical informa- 

 tion, "we should hardly feel justified in spending time and means 

 therefor"; . . . and he closed his paper with this sentence : — "Being 

 thoroughly familiar with the stock-interests of the country, we know 

 how difficult it is to get farmers to care for their stock, so far as 

 this warble is concerned ; and we are satisfied that where self- 

 interest does not dictate better attention we can do little more than 

 point out the means of avoiding injury and the desirability of so 

 doing." *— C. V. R. 



* Insect Life. Periodical Bulletin of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Vol. ii. No. G, 

 pp. 176, 177. 



