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OX WARBLE FLY. 
believe realized for the first time the real loss to the community. 
From conversations I had with cattle-breeders, farmers and others, 
I think we may fairly expect as a direct result of the show :— 
“1st. That a large number who have hitherto let things take their 
course will now take the trouble to destroy the Warble when it is 
apparent on the hide. 
“2nd. Many will perhaps smear their cattle before the Warble is 
perceptible, and save the animals much unnecessary suffering. 
“ 3rd. Not a few will in future adopt the best-known method of pre¬ 
venting the deposit of the egg. I was glad to learn from several practical 
men, who in eonsequence of your published observations on the subject took 
precautionary measures two years ago , that they have cleared their farms 
of the pest , and believe that they run very little risk from their neighbours, 
as they do not think the fly travels far. [I have placed this in italics 
to attract attention as it is confirmed by the accounts sent to myself 
year by year in every point, and that of the fly not travelling far should 
especially be observed.— Ed.] Should this prove to be true, the ex¬ 
tinction of Warbles need only be a question of time. 
“ Fortunately I had opportunities of seeing several of the large 
cattle exporters from the Continent, and was much pleased to find 
them so easily roused to the importance of drawing attention to the 
matter in their own countries. Of the thousands of live cattle brought 
to the Tyne yearly from abroad, a very large proportion are badly 
warbled. 
“ I am by no means scientific, but as a buyer of about 1500 to 1700 
hides per week, I have the ravages of this pest constantly under my 
notice.”—Jos. Gf. Angus. 
At the end of May Mr. F. M. Menzies, Secretary of the Highland 
and Agricultural Society of Scotland, favoured me with information 
that he had distributed 1300 of the papers above mentioned, and 
likewise Deports (giving the subject in fuller detail), to the Secretaries 
of Local Agricultural Societies in Scotland, together with a circular 
drawing attention to the importance of the subject, and further 
added from himself :—“ I hope we may rouse the farmers to endeavour 
to eradicate the pest—it is so easily done :—my own cattle used to 
have plenty of them, but from squeezing out the bots they appear to 
have been got rid of, as I have not found a hot for some years.” 
—F. M. M. 
A few days later Mr. D. Currer, the Secretary of the Scottish 
Chamber of Agriculture also wrote, mentioning that he had already 
been distributing some of the above papers “amongst my Directors, 
and some of the larger rearers, and breeders^of stock,” and proposed to 
continue the distribution. 
By the co-operation of the two above powerful societies, the subject 
