WARBLE PLY. 
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under the skin. In about two weeks many of these put up swellings, 
in some cases double the first number. These were treated with 
McDougall’s preparation—a pretty strong solution. A good many 
continued to put up at intervals of a few days, which were also treated 
with McDougall’s preparation.” 
“ Either of these remedies may be relied upon, but I think the 
solution is quicker in its action, the swelling subsiding—indeed, 
disappearing—after three days. I prefer the solution myself; it is so 
much easier of application.”— Ralph Lowe, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. 
“ A lot of three-year-old heifers (black polls), which had not been 
housed last summer except in bad weather, were all affected. They 
have now calves at foot. The short-horn crosses used for the dairy, 
which had been kept in at night all the summer, were clear of warbles, 
except a three-year-old, which was always in the house at night. A 
year-old polled bull, just brought in, had many warbles. I desired 
the cattleman to dress one-half of the lumps with strong salt and 
water, the other half with McDougall’s dip. A few days later I went 
out with mercurial ointment, which you recommend, to touch them 
myself. The salted ones were all lively, as I saw when I made the 
cattleman press some out, but the McDougailed ones were all dead and 
flattened. A few calves of last year had them, but the bulk had 
escaped.”—W. E. Cattley, Edderton, Ross-shire, N.B. 
The following notes refer to the successful use of McDougalVs 
preparations , and also to the use of sulphur as a dusting, which likewise 
appears to have been very serviceable :—■* 
“ Concerning warbles in cattle, I find that McDougall’s Carbolic 
Sheep Dip, which is non-poisonous, kills the warble after it has made 
a small hole in the skin. I am now using train-oil, sulphur, and 
spirits of tar to keep the fly from attacking the cattle.” —John W. 
Crompton, Rivington, near Chorley, Lane. 
“ I had each cow dusted along the back with sulphur. The result 
is that only two cows had one solitary deposit each; the others were 
perfectly free, whilst there are several on the backs of their calves. 
* I have to express my thanks to Messrs. Carruthers and Co., Lancaster, for 
obligingly forwarding various 5 lb. tins of McDougall’s Smear, price 8s. each, 
gratuitously to different correspondents of my own for trial, and I also give the 
following communication from Messrs. Carruthers relatively to some differences 
which they name in the effect of the “ Dip ” and the “ Dipping Smear.”— Ed. 
“In the ‘ Sheep Dip’ it is objected that it hardens the skin, and does not for 
any considerable time prevent the fly striking or attacking the sheep or other 
animal to which it is applied. The ‘ Dipping Smear,’ though containing the same 
active principle, keeps the skin in a beautifully soft condition, and, being of a 
sticky, greasy nature, holds the carbolic and other ingredients that are objectionable 
to the fly for a much longer time than the ‘ Sheep Dip ’ would do. It could 
be easily applied by being dissolved in boiling soft water, and then applied with a 
brush to the back or any other part likely to be attacked.” 
