PART II. 
OX AND HOESE WARBLES. —OX GADFLY.— “ MURRAIN ’’ 
WORM. — SHEER’S NOSTRIL-MAGGOT. 
WARBLES. 
Ox Warble Fly. Hypoderma bovis, De Greer. 
Hypoderma bovis. 
During tlie past year a very great advance has been made towards 
proper attention being paid to getting rid of Warbles by the strong 
approval of the work set on foot for its destruction, given both by 
many of our most leading public agricultural bodies, and a very large 
number of private individuals connected with cattle, both in Great 
Britain and Ireland. 
Our own Royal Agricultural Society, in co-operation with the 
Newcastle Hide Inspection Society, assisted greatly; likewise the 
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, and the Scottish 
Chamber of Agriculture. Foremost amongst our English Chambers 
of Agriculture which aided in the work I may name that of Wisbech, 
Lincolnshire. The Butchers’ Association of Birmingham, agents on 
various of the great properties, local agents, and cattle auctioneers 
and salesmen, and a very great number of cattle-owners and breeders, 
likewise aided, both in drawing attention to the importance of the 
work and in many cases by bearing witness to the ease with which 
this pest might be got under. 
On the 10th of June Mr. J. McGillivray, Secretary of the Hide 
Inspection Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne, with whom I had for some 
time been in correspondence, wrote me that it had been considered by 
the Committee of the Society that it would be useful to have a few 
