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OX WARBLE. Ill 
which had not been dressed because they were out in the field.”—- 
(W. B.) 
Where the remedies advised have been tried there has been general 
success. The names of the leading cattle owners and agriculturists 
in England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose trial and approval of these 
I have been permitted to give year after year in my Reports, speak as 
to the benefit of the treatment suggested both for lessening amount of 
Warble presence, and also of summer galloping, much better than any¬ 
thing I can say. But still the area over which care and benefit takes place 
is as nothing to that over which there is none. 
Last season’s Warble attack (so far as reported to myself) was very 
bad in home grown hides, also much observed in hides imported 
from America. Just by way of giving one or two observations on this 
point, on the 30tli of Dec., Messrs. C. H. Hatton, writing from 
Barton Tannery, Hereford, mentioned, “ The cattle were worse than 
ever this year as regards maggot.” 
The following note with which I was favoured from the Bristol and 
Western Counties Butchers’ Hide and Skin Co., by Mr. W. Willis, 
shows the great amount of damaged hides received :— 
“ Respecting ‘ Warbled Hides,’ I regret to say there is but little, if 
any, improvement in this district. Whether it arises from the long dry 
and hot summer w r e had last year I do not know, but there is scarcely 
a hide brought into the market that is absolutely free from them, and 
many of them are as full of them as they can hold. 
“ I may say, too, that the hides we are now getting from the United 
States are worse in this respect than I have yet seen them. This is 
especially so with cattle exported from Portland (Maine); during the 
last two or three weeks there have been a considerable number of 
bulls sent from there, and most of these had Warbles in them by the 
hundred, which were of an extremely large size.” 
There does not appear to be any use in again, this year, going over 
from reports the same points that have been given yearly; the matter 
stands, lstly, that the attack causes millions of pounds sterling of loss 
yearly; 2ndly, that it can with certainty and with little expense or 
trouble be enormously lessened; and 3rdly, that on account of the loss 
on hides, beef, and return of milk and condition of fatting beasts, it is 
greatly the desire of Hide Societies, Butchers’ Associations, and leading 
cattle owners and farmers, that the attack should be stamped out. 
I know no better way to help this cause than by continuing to 
spread plain information, and in this matter add the words of the 
Treasurer of one of our North Countrv Butchers’ Associations as being 
more forcible than my own:— 
% “I don’t think I can suggest any better reasonable method of dis¬ 
pelling the ignorance of some cattle growers than the distribution of 
