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necessary information given to visitors by a member of the Inspection 
Society, or one of their employes. The Nottingham Hide Market Co. 
(Mr. W. Welbourn, Sec.) helped cordially and most serviceably by 
supply of fresh hides, and also by distribution of posters and hand¬ 
bills with short and clear directions for Warble prevention. The same 
kind of arrangements were adopted at other agricultural shows with 
excellent effect, and the great thing now needed is to carry on the 
work so that those not yet reached may be obliged to know the nature 
of the attack, and that it can for all practical purposes be stamped out 
by each man amongst his own cattle. 
Last year was an excessively bad one for Warble attack where 
cattle had not been looked to, but (as will be seen by the reports sent 
in) even under these circumstances it was slight where preventive 
measures had been taken. 
In the following pages I give (mostly in my correspondents’ own 
words) notes of the applications which have been used, and results 
also of the continued benefit to the cattle in Bunbury district, 
Cheshire, where preventive measures have been carried on now for 
several years ; some notes showing sickness and death where cattle 
were neglected ; and also returns with which I have been favoured from 
leading Societies, Firms, Hide-market Companies, and others, showing 
amount of hides passing through their hands in the course of one year, 
with estimates of the proportion amongst these that have been 
warbled, and consequent depreciation in value. These are given by 
permission, with the names of the senders, to whom I am greatly 
indebted for their courtesy in furnishing me at my request with such 
valuable help towards forming an estimate of the amount of money 
lost yearly on hides only by this quite needless pest. 
The following notes refer to various kinds of treatment and applications 
found serviceable, during the past season, in destroying the maggot or preventing 
summer galloping, — with observations of the senders both as to the 
satisfactory effects of treatment and to the great need of it. 
On May 26th Mrs. Holford, of Castle Hill, Cerne, Dorchester, 
wrote as follows :— 
“ I can now give you the results of following your directions last 
season about the Warble Fly. In the dairy herd of thirty-two cows 
we have only found seven maggots ; in the other, forty-one head of all 
ages, only three animals have any, though I expect to find more after 
a few days of this warm weather. Needless to say I shall continue 
your treatment.” Mrs. Holford further mentioned:—“ I have said 
nothing of our short horn herd as they are quite free, and, having 
sheds to go into when the fly is about, do not run the same risk.” 
This point is very important because (as I have noted on the fourth 
