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WARBLE FLY. 
on the season and the thickness of the ‘ coat.”’—B. St. John Ackers, 
Prinlmash Park, Painswick. 
It will be observed that after both the above applications the cattle 
are noted as remaining at peace in the pastures. 
The following washes or dressings have been reported as having 
been found more especially useful amongst many tried by the experi¬ 
menter :— 
“ Sulphur, 1 lb.; soft-soap, 1 lb.; boiling water, 3 pints ; to be 
applied about once to the back of the animal with a brush. 
“ Sulphur, \ oz.; prepared lard, 1| oz.; tar, 1 oz. ; one rubbing 
in will last well. 
“ Carbolic acid and oil; one part of carbolic acid to fifty of oil. 
“ Kero sine oil. 
“ Oil of turpentine, 4 oz.; oil of tar, 4 oz. ; linseed oil, 4 oz. ; to 
be well rubbed in along the back.”—A. C. C. Martyn, Agricultural 
School, Aspatria, Carlisle. 
Sulphur and train-oil, and paraffin and oil, have been tried as 
preventives of egg-laying with good effect by F. W. Horsfall, New- 
land House, Leamington. 
The result of the foregoing observations and the various experi¬ 
ments agree with those of the previous season, and appear to be as 
follows :—first, with regard to warbles, that any application whatever 
that will choke the breathing-pores at the tip of the tail of the maggot, 
and can be laid for this purpose on the opening of the warble, will 
kill the maggot within, and the sooner this can be done the better for 
the animal that is infested. 
In regard to preventing fly-attack, or the apparent sign of it, which 
is the mad gallop of the cattle in the summer, it appears by comparison 
of observations that train-oil, or mixtures in which oil forms a part, 
are the most useful. The obvious reasons for this are the deterrent 
smell and the unfit state of the hair for egg-deposit when soaked with 
grease ; but it also seems to me open to consideration whether the 
application of the oil may not also soothe and do good by allaying the 
irritation and itching of warbles then present, though not known of. 
It will be seen in the following tables that maggots are frequently 
present throughout the summer, and, though I only submit the view 
as a conjecture, it may be that the putrescent smell from these is an 
attraction, and that the good oilings at once stop irritation and over¬ 
come the attractive smell. 
