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WARBLE. 
Ox Warble Fly. Hypoderma bovis, De Geer. 
Hypoderma bovis. 
During the past season the subject of Warble prevention, both as a 
matter easily carried out and also as one of serious importance, has 
made great advance. The leading Agricultural Societies, Societies 
and Companies more especially concerned with the sale of hides, 
land-owners and cattle-owners, and the agricultural and also the 
general and local press, have all helped heartily, and the result has 
been excellent and not confined to this country. 
Here I have had communication from every one of the English 
counties, and likewise from various localities in Wales and Scotland, 
and especially from Ireland ; and information has been sought from 
various localities on the Continent and from N. America. Besides 
much information asked for by letter, which I have always endeavoured 
to attend to as promptly and as fully as I could, I have distributed 
somewhere about 28,000 of my four-page leaflets with life-history and 
method of prevention and remedy of Warble attack, in addition to 
about 40,000 previously distributed: and Messrs. W. Murray and Sons, 
hide factors of Aberdeen, N. B., also made arrangements to have 
15,000 of this leaflet printed at their own cost, and distributed free to 
all the agricultural servants and those interested in cattle management 
who entered the show-yard at their Annual Show at Aberdeen on 
July 19th. The Exhibition by the Newcastle Hide Inspection Society 
(Mr. J. McGillivray, Sec.), at the Boyal Agricultural Society’s Show 
at Nottingham, did much good, as well as that at Newcastle-on-Tyne 
in the previous year. 
The plan adopted of displaying badly-infested hides when newly 
removed from the animal, so as to show the under surface and its 
horrible condition with the great maggots working in their putrid 
cells, has proved to be one of the best methods of drawing attention 
to the great injury caused to the living animal. Besides these, tanned 
hides were so shown that visitors might see how they were riddled by 
the maggot holes, aud the maggot and fly were also exhibited, and all 
