342 Annual Report for 1888 of the Consulting Entomologist. 
many bearing generally on the work, nor attention to a large 
amount of applications for warble leaflets or information on the 
subject, amounting by weight to between 5 and 6 lb. 
I am glad to be able to report that advance is being made 
in the use of broad-scale remedies for some of the bad attacks. 
Whilst writing this I hear from Toddington fruit grounds, near 
Cheltenham, that about a hundred thousand trees have been 
banded with grease to stop attack of the wingless winter moths, 
and that millions of these have been caught. Five hundred 
were counted caught on one tree — and, as each of these moths lay 
about two hundred or more eggs, there is a clear saving of much 
threatening of attack. Cart grease is found to answer best. 
Prevention of Warble Fly. 
Enormous advance has been made in the matter of warble 
prevention. The action taken by the Royal Agricultural 
Society, with the co-operation of the Newcastle Hide Inspection 
Society, and the Nottingham Hide, &c.. Market Company, at the 
Royal Show at Nottingham, did much good, especially by the 
exhibition of freshly flayed hides, showing the great maggots in 
the under tissues, and the injury caused by their presence. 
The matter of prevention has been very well taken up by 
cattle owners in England and Ireland, and to some extent in 
Scotland. I have had communication from every one of the 
English counties, and I believe I may say that all the reports 
sent in from farmers, graziers, and those practically cognisant of 
the work, confirm both the success of the treatment, which has 
now been under wide observation for upwards of four years, and 
likewise the benefit to the cattle, from removal of the maggots, 
and preventing the summer galloping. 
The reports also show that severe wasting and sometimes 
death from the warble attack occur much more frequently from 
bad warble attack than was observed to be the case until the 
attention of owners was directed to the subject. 
Many societies and firms connected with business in cattle 
and hides have taken up the subject, and with excellent eflPect, 
and the continued work of the boys of the Aldersey Grammar 
School at Bunbury, Tarporley, Cheshire, continues to show that, 
by a little care in clearing the cattle of the maggots, warble 
attack may be almost entirely stamped out, on any one farm or 
over a district. 
A great feeling is aroused through the country, and many of 
the hide firms or societies with whom I am in communication 
are very desirous that a stop should be put to this quite un- 
