OX WABBLE FLY. 
107 
“ Having distributed your papers among my fellow-farmers , I am 
sure they will be well appreciated, for my own district is so very much 
infested with the Warble pest, and the old fashioned farmers call them 
Thriving Bumps, but I think they are vice versa." —Henry R. Brown, 
Lodge Farm, Harefield. 
Mr Richard Stratton, of the Dnffryn, Newport, Mon., whose 
opinion on cattle matters is very valuable, wrote me :— 
“ I am glad indeed to hear that the Warble raid is progressing so 
well; everybody seems now to have heard of the pest, and of the 
simple means of prevention and cure, and those who don’t act now, 
lam afraid won’t. Still I suppose we must go on ding, dinging at 
them.” And this is just what it is. The great cattle owners, heads 
of Societies, and so on, who have taken up the subject, and through 
whose observations (and information and courteous permission to 
make this useful information public) we owe much of the knowledge 
now spread abroad, are well acquainted with what the attack is and the 
ease with which it might be got rid of, but with the men who work 
about the cattle the old stories handed on from generation to genera¬ 
tion will remain unless they are driven out by teaching or by showing. 
We cannot hope to manage this by any other means than what Mr. 
Stratton well describes as “ ding, dinging by patient repetition, like 
blows at the anvil, the matter will be driven into shape, if the leaders 
will but use their influence, but it should not be forgotten that 
unavoidable ignorance is one thing, and idleness and deceit another, 
and that a sweeping statement (where master or buyer knows no 
better) that the bumps only show a desirable state of affairs is used 
to hide many a case of sheer neglect and laziness, and to put off 
many a beast unfairly on an ignorant purchaser. 
The great losses both as to health and regarding quality and 
quantity of milk in dairy farming, loss of flesh on fatting beasts, and 
deaths from what is shortly termed “ rottenness ” of the back, and 
other consequences where Warble holes are many, and the losses on 
hide, have been gone into in such detail in my preceding reports, it 
is unnecessary to repeat them, but I give a few notes from the com¬ 
munications of the last season which confirm the previous information, 
and especially continue to prove the ease with which the attack may 
be put an end to. 
The notes following refer to illness, inflammation, and general 
non-thriving, being caused by Warble presence. 
“ Last year about this time, I was called in to a little three-year 
old heifer whose back was almost covered with Warbles, and the eftect 
on the constitution was very marked; the poor thing was very thin and 
would not eat. I was satisfied that the irritation set up by the Waibles 
was the cause, and applied the following : Turpentine, 1^ oz.; 
