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OX WARBLE FLY. 
nothing the pests always appear with the spring.” — E. Basset, 
Highclere, Newbury. 
“ We have a large dairy, and last year found a great number of 
maggots. We used mercurial ointment as you advised, and got out 
a great number.”—Miss Margaret Curtis Hayward, Quedgeley, near 
Gloucester. 
“I have sixty bullocks now fattening in covered yards. I believe 
that every one has Warbles more or less. I have had them dressed 
with mercurial ointment, and I believe all the grubs are killed.”— 
K. M. Courtauld, Cut Hedges, Halstead, Essex. 
“We have not examined all the stock.. but as far as I 
have been able to examine the cattle I have not found one [Warble]. 
We used powdered brimstone as being least likely to taint the milk.”— 
David Byrd, Bnnbury Heath, Tarporley, Cheshire, April 2, 1887. 
“ Our twenty-five cows are at present free from Warbles, thanks to 
your exertions. Last two winters we put a spot of tar on each 
opening,—but of course our neighbours grow plenty,—and I think the 
immunity is due to washing the backs of the animals, last summer 
several times with tar-water.” — J. A. Chapman, M.D., Bury Hill, 
Hereford, March 28, 1887. 
“From another tenant I elicited that living in an isolated farm, 
where there was no sale for buttermilk (or ‘ churn’ milk, as we 
northerners term it), he used the same as a wash for his cattle three 
or four times in the season, which kept them remarkably free from the 
pest; and another treats his stock with strong brine, and with similar 
results.”'—F. C. Smith, Westgate Eoad, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Good effect of dressings, and also of previous removal of the maggot , in 
preventing summer disturbance. 
“ I should have written you before as to the effect of dressing for 
fly, but thought I would wait and make quite sure as to the results. 
I prepared mixture as you recommended, id est, 4 oz. flower of sulphur, 
1 gill spirits of tar, and 1 quart of train-oil, and applied the same to 
16 beasts. The effect was very marked ; previously they had been 
galloping about all the day, continually getting out of the field and 
giving much trouble thereby, since not one of them has got out, and 
the men who were making hay in adjoining fields, and had full oppor¬ 
tunity of watching them, tell me that since being dressed they have 
scarcely run about all. I have since applied the same mixture to the 
whole of the beasts on my farm, and am so well satified with this ap¬ 
plication that I have not tried either of the other receipts.”—H. J. 
Hillard, Heliand, North Curry, Taunton. 
“ At the beginning of the spring of 1886 I saw a note in one of 
our local papers from you, calling the attention of owners of cattle 
