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OX WARBLE FLY. 
The following returns are given in tabulated form, to show the 
continued success of the treatment of the cattle in the district round 
Bunbury and Tarporley, Cheshire, by the boys of the Aldersey Grammar 
School. This was begun at first under the suggestion and instruction 
of the Head Master, Mr. W. Bailey, but now continued also from the 
benefit accruing to the cattle and thence to their owners. By the end 
of 1887 the progress was considered so satisfactory that a letter from 
Mr. Bailey to His Grace the Duke of Westminster, giving an account 
of the work of the boys, was read before Committee on December 6th, 
1887, at the Royal Agricultural Society, and directed to be published, 
and the work since has been equally satisfactory. 
The majority of the boys of the school are sons of farmers, and 
the returns therefore show the benefit of the treatment, whether 
on the broad scale of the many head of cattle owned by tenants of 
large farms under the Duke of Westminster or other great land- 
owners, or to the one or two cows of a small holder, to whom the 
health of his animals is even more important. 
In the following table I give the names of the boys, both for 
exactness of record and also as a little encouragement to them in 
good and useful work, and likewise the number and kind of stock 
examined, and the number of Warbles and kind of stock on which 
they were found, and also whether on home cattle or on stock brought 
in ; and it may be remarked that these returns are from a district 
where a few years ago Warble were, as it was phrased, as plentiful as 
blackberries. 
The following short table was sent to me by Mr. Bailey, on March 
20th (1888), as the result of examination by the boys named, on the 
preceding Saturday:— 
NAME. 
STOCK EXAMINED. 
NUMBER OF WARBLES FOUND. 
A. E. Willis 
32 COWS 
1 Warble on 1 cow, and 10 
on newly bought cow. 
T. Jones 
39 cows & 11 heifers 
1 on each of 4 cows, and 
15 on heifers. 
C. Palin 
25 cows 
2 Warbles. 
A. Jones 
1 cow 
None. 
J. Williamson 
2 cows 
None. 
C. Matthews 
2 cows 
1 Warble. 
F. H. Willis 
40 cows 
Only 3 Warbles. 
