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OX WARBLE FLY. 
page of my Warble leaflet) “ Warble Flies are most active in heat and 
sunshine,” but commonly the shelter of trees is the best that can be 
hoped for. 
On May 26th Mr. James Phillips wrote to me from Carse, 
Kirkcudbright, N. B., regarding the application of McDougall’s 
dip:— 
“ I think the remedy you recommend in McDougall’s dip must be 
effectual. This last spring I had a bullock infested with lice, and to 
rid him of the vermin I had his back completely washed with the said 
dip, about the end of March. Since receiving your advice I have 
examined him carefully, and find that I have * killed two birds with 
one stone,’ as on him neither maggot nor cell is to be found, although 
on the backs of his neighbours in the same field there is abundant 
evidence of the pest being still in winter quarters, or in some cases 
signs are not wanting that the unwelcome guest has lately taken his 
departure.” 
The following report from Mr. F. C. Smith, of Clayton Park 
Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne, who bestowed much time and trouble on 
drawing attention to the subject of Warble prevention, was sent me 
on June 4th :— 
“ I lately met Mr. James Benton, tenant of North and South 
Brackley farms, near Blagdon, to whom I gave a copy of your notes 
about a year ago, and who then told me that his stock—numbering 
about forty head—were infested with Warbles. He forthwith com¬ 
menced to use a dressing* composed of train oil and sulphur, of the 
consistence of thick cream, which he applied to the Warbles with most 
excellent results ; and later on, in August, he dressed them with the 
same preparation,—over the shoulders, and along the spine, and down 
to the hocks.” 
He reports that no Warbles are upon stock of his own breeding, 
although he has had much trouble with Irish stock brought to fatten 
off; and that many of his neighbours are in a bad way with their 
stock suffering from Warbles, and these people are now going to adopt 
the same remedial measures as my informant has proved to be so 
effectual. “Mr. B. in the future intends to dress his stock in May and 
August, and blesses the day upon which he got your ‘ Notes,’ as his 
stock are now undisturbed by Fly and thriving apace.” 
On June 14th Mr. Ernest Mead, who had communicated with me 
before on the subject of Warbles, from 1, Western Boad, Tring, wrote 
as the result of his application of oil and sulphur to the back of cattle 
in the previous summer :— 
“ As regards some three-year old bullocks that were dressed, I have 
* Mr. Renton says that a gallon of train oil, costing three shillings, and sulphur, 
costing say threepence, was sufficient to dress thirty-two head once. 
