OX WARBLE FLY. 
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I should like particularly to draw attention to the following as well 
as the foregoing observations, which show presence merely on two 
miserable beasts of scores more of Warbles than were found on the 
515 head of cattle previously noticed (see line 9 from foot, p. Ill), in the 
neighbourhood of Tarporley, which had been for the most part duly 
attended to. I can confirm the serious extent to which the attack 
runs on, by state of hides now before me, one of which, from a two- 
year old heifer, has 800—the other, from an animal which died of 
consequent mortification of the back, more than 400—Warble-holes 
in it. 
On May 28th Mr. Francis Drawfield, Alton Manor Farm, Wirks- 
worth, Derbyshire, sent me the following account:— 
“ In the beginning of April I had a heifer that began to lose flesh 
(of course she was in calf), and all the good keep and care would not 
prevent the flesh from going. 
“ She went on till the beginning of this month, when she got 
down and could not get up, but still kept on eating as usual. 
“ I had her removed into a warm paddock ; I set a trough in front 
of her with bran, linseed-cake, and malt, which she continued to eat; 
I mashed her malt and put gentian root in the mash, and she drank 
the liquid from the mash. We left her at night to all appearance as 
lively as usual, but the next morning we found her dead. 
“ When taking off the skin, I found from the shoulders to the hips 
bored one complete riddle with Warble maggots. 
“ In counting, I found no less than 310 holes ; on taking it to the 
tan-yard, they pronounced it good for nothing. 
“ There is no doubt the Warbles were the cause of death. 
“ It will be a great blessing for the poor cattle if something is found 
out to remove the pest.” 
On June 16th the following note was sent me by Mr. John R. 
Golding, of Baunmore, Clare, Galway, Ireland, regarding serious 
amount of injury from Warbles :— 
“ Owing to the prolonged excessive heat last summer, the Warble- 
pest has done great injury to young cattle in this district, causing 
death in some instances by their numbers, from March last up to this.” 
Another note on the same subject was sent me on May 15th, by 
Mr. Thomas Barrett Lennard, of Horsford Manor, Norwich, who 
wrote:— 
“ Many of my beasts have bumps, but one—which is so thin and 
wretched that he seems not long for this world—is one mass of 
bumps.” 
The above returns are a portion only of the information sent in 
during 1888. 
