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OX WARBLE FLY. 
and other out-of-door workers on the estates, and also supplied the 
Cattle Market, and left copies at the Farmers’ Club, and at the work¬ 
ing Mens’ Club, which being placed in the Butchers’ Market is much 
frequented by those interested in stock, and distributed and communi¬ 
cated in many other quarters likely to be serviceably influential in 
drawing attention to the subject. 
Application was made to myself by several hundred correspond¬ 
ents, namely, cattle-owners, agents of large properties, cattle-sales¬ 
men and auctioneers ; their letters in many cases contained accounts 
of the great prevalence of Warble in the district written from, and the 
loss to the owner on hide, milk, health or condition of beast for 
slaughter, according as he himself was personally interested in the 
respective matters. The printed note was requested for the informa¬ 
tion of the writers, and in many cases further supplies were desired 
for distribution to neighbours, tenantry, or customers; and in this 
manner about 21,500 copies of the four-page note, giving a short 
account of the main points of the attack, were distributed in the 
country, as well as many hundreds—probably about 3000—of the 
reports. 
If it is considered that some four years ago the nature of Warble 
attack and the remedies were scarcely known in this country, except¬ 
ing to a few especially interested in the subject, the fact that plain 
information is now at the command of everyone, and is being spread 
abroad with the approbation and under the auspices of the leading 
Agriculturists of the Kingdom, gives great reason to hope that we are 
in a fair way now to get the mischief attended to. One great point, 
that is still to be undermined with the uneducated, is the view that 
the attack is sometimes of incomprehensible origin, and shows a 
good state of the animal ! 
The following notes sent from various parts of the country refer to 
this extraordinary idea :— 
“ Having had to do with cattle, both when feeding or slaughtered as 
beef, all my life, I have for some time before reading your articles, 
seen how erroneous the old idea was that Warble maggots were 
‘ Thriving Bumps whether the name is peculiar to this part of the 
country I do not know.”— Ernest Mead, 1, Western Boad, Tring. 
“ I find it most difficult to make them (Stockmen and Cowmen), 
believe that the maggots are not a sign that the beast is doing well; 
they call them Thriving Bugs.”—K. M. Courtauld, Cut Hedge, 
Halstead, Essex. 
“ I have some difficulty in getting the Warble grubs removed, 
as there is a notion prevalent in this district that a few of them make 
an animal thrive, and I know very few who take the trouble of re¬ 
moving them.”—J. Purefoy Poe, Harley Park, Callan, Ireland. 
