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OX WARBLE FLY. 
On April 13tli, 1887, Mr. Bailey further informed me :—“ Another 
lot of boys have examined and reported to me on 250 head of stock. 
The results agree with those I sent you.” 
“ Where the cattle were properly attended to last year by the Warble 
maggots being squeezed out, or dressed with McDougall’s smear or 
cart-grease, there are scarcely any maggots to be seen now ; where, 
however, this precaution has not been taken, the enemy is to be found 
in full force. 
“ As examples of the former I may mention two of our boys, Henry 
Milling and Percy Attwood, who paid great attention to the stock in 
this matter last year. 
“ Last week Milling examined 48 cows and 10 heifers, and found only 
one Warble; Attwood examined 53 cows and heifers, and found only six. 
“On the other side, where remedies had not been applied, “two 
brothers removed 40 maggots this week from one stock, and their task 
is not half done; another boy applied McDougall’s smear to 70 
Warble-maggots. 
“It is not only on our large farms where so much energy is being 
shown in an effort to stamp out this pest, but the sons of our cottagers 
are equally active in the cause. These boys in a few years will be 
our agricultural labourers, and I encourage them to examine and 
report to me on their one cow and heifer. 
“ The boys in the lower part of the school are doing what they can. 
On Thursday, one little fellow only ten years old brought me eight 
maggots which he had squeezed out of the calves. 
“ Where the stock is free from the pest the boys tell me, “ the cows 
are milking unusually well this year.” ....“/ have no hesitation in 
saying that in this parish alone what has been done at your suggestion has 
put many pounds into our farmers' pockets, for their stocks are giving more 
milk, and are feeding better. The hides also are worth more money." 
I have given the above at length as the work being done under the 
eyes of Mr. Bailey, and likewise of Mr. D. Byrd, of Bunbury Heath, 
and many of the other farmers of the neighbourhood, it is no mere 
fancy or half-proved experiment, but what could be judged of by all 
connected with the stock in the district, and it shows not only the 
benefit of getting rid of Warble-grubs, and the thoroughness with 
which they can be cleared out of a district, but the benefit of plain 
common sense instruction on the subject of farm insect pests. 
The last year’s work has done much towards undermining the 
hold of this pest, and I therefore add the chief part of my four-page 
leaflet (6th edition), which was distributed largely last year. (Should 
any interested in the subject desire copies for themselves, or for dis¬ 
tribution in the coming season, I would forward with pleasure on 
paplication) :— 
