WARBLE FLY. 
95 
There always will be an enormous percentage of those who will 
take no care about what is not very much troubling them at that 
instant, and so it is too often with regard to destroying the maggots ; 
but every cattle owner or herdsman objects to seeing his cattle going 
full drive over the fields on a hot summer day, and therefore 
knowledge of simple applications which have been found to answer 
to prevent this, is a key to open to us the whole of the course of 
prevention. 
Stopping the galloping is showing safety from fly—safety from fly 
is safety from maggot—safety from pain of the boil-swellings, inflam¬ 
mation, suction of the great grubs themselves, and the train of losses 
and inconveniences consequent thereon. 
I wish particularly to draw attention to the three following obser¬ 
vations on this matter, as being applications which have been well 
tried and found successful. 
The first, it will be observed, reports the serviceableness of 
McDougall’s Sheep Dip, and the benefit being clearly proved by the 
cattle, which had previously been troubled by warbles, “ being almost 
free from them ” in the following season. 
“ My cattle have been very much troubled with warbles. The 
summer before last, in the end of May, I dressed them with McDougall’s 
Sheep Dip, repeating the dressing occasionally till the end of August. 
The result was most satisfactory, as the next year they were almost free 
from them. I shall in consequence always continue to dress them so.” 
—John M. Moubray, Broom Court, Alcester. 
The two following notes are repeated from last year’s Report, 
being in each case from thoroughly qualified observers, and having 
been again tried and found successful in the past season by other 
observers:— 
“ I have used and also recommend the following mixtures as a 
preventive:—Flour of sulphur, 4 oz.; spirits of tar, 1 gill; train 
(whale) oil, 1 quart. Mix well together, and apply along the spine of 
the cow once a week with a small brush. The smell drives off the 
flies, and prevents them depositing their eggs, and the cattle are left 
at peace to graze, and warbles thus prevented.”— Henry Thompson, 
M.R.C.V.S., Aspatria. 
“ I venture to give my experience of many years. If cattle that 
are turned out into the fields (those that are in sheds escape entirely 
with me) are rubbed all down the spine with train-oil, and a little also 
on the loins and ribs, they will be free from this pest, have their 
hides uninjured, will do much better, and will graze quietly at the 
time that others not so treated are tearing about with their tails in 
the air. 
“ Two or three dressings I generally find enough, but much depends 
