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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. 
44 Two or three dressings I generally find enough, but much 
depends on the season and the thickness of the 4 coat.’”—B. St. John 
Ackers, Prinknash Park, Painswick. 
The following observations, received on Feb. 25th, confirm the use 
of the mixtures of the nature of those above noted, by absence of 
attack being note found to be following their application, whilst other 
cattle at the same place are showing warbles :— 
Feb. 23rd. 44 Last summer we had twenty-eight two-year-old 
heifers on an outlying field: they showed symptoms of ringworm got 
from neighbouring stock. I took the twenty-eight into a house and 
applied the following wash to them, rubbing the entire back once :— 
Spirit of tar, carbolic acid, sulphur, and linseed oil (I am now sorry I 
did not measure the proportions of the mixture, but I merely made it 
sufficiently strong to counteract the ringworm). 
44 The result is, I have not one case of warbles amongst the twenty- 
eight heifers. I have it on others, and used to have lots of it on the 
two-year-olds. As I believe the spirits of tar, carbolic acid, and oil 
kept the warbles off, I shall try it again. Meantime, I should like, if 
others would try it as well as myself, to test it thoroughly.” —D. Sym 
Scott, Ballinacourte, Tipperary. 
In the first line of this page is an observation as to cattle which 
are always in sheds at egg-laying time escaping attack. It would be 
very useful to have more information as to the condition of cattle 
which had access at will to the shelter of sheds in the heat of the day. 
At Sedbury Park, in Gloucestershire, where I have seen our cows 
in exposed pastures going at the swinging trot that shows fly-attack, I 
never saw this in one field where there was a thick open grove of oaks 
with a shed beneath it, within and round which the herd sheltered 
themselves and picked the hay that might be strewn about. —Ed. 
The following note refers to this point, and likewise to housing at 
night y which has not been brought forward before, and may prove 
important relatively to some of the CEstridce being exceedingly lively 
in the bright moonlight:— 
44 1 seldom get any warbles in my own young cattle, and I think 
from this cause,—that they have sheds to run under during the summer, 
and are housed at night, and have a good feed of cake ; and my belief is 
that flies of any sort always prefer working on poor half-starved things 
to well-fed ones.”—E. B. Berry Torr, Westleigli House, Bideford. 
