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WARBLES. 
above-mentioned :—“ Down the spine was frothy, loose, and mattery, 
or suppose in a sort of jelly-state, and (as I said in my last) some of 
the beef to scrape before sending it out. The loss on hide, Id. per lb.; 
suppose that would mean on hide, 5s. 
“ Now loss in beef fell upon myself, the animal being sold to the 
butcher so much per stone. But (as I said before) the Heifer did not 
make near the weight I anticipated from the extra good feed and length 
of the time she had. It should have been at least six stones more, so 
may venture to say, loss in beef and hide from fifty to sixty shillings. 
I never suspected Warble-trouble until told by the butcher.”—J. S. 
He also mentioned an instance of an animal belonging to Mr. 
Henry Bobson, of Glen Hill, Allendale Town, Northumberland, which 
had been doing very badly for some time, which proved on examination 
so badly infested that the owner removed sixty-nine Warble-maggots, 
and found a great many more not sufficiently matured to squeeze out. 
He used the smear, and, like some others, fancies he will see this does 
not occur again. 
The above notices confirm the observations given in my preceding 
Beports from leading cattle-owners and farmers, and also from butchers 
and tanners who have examined the carcases and newly-removed hides 
immediately after death, regarding the quantity of cattle that die, or 
demonstrably are seriously injured in health, by maggot-presence. 
At pp. 112-118 of my ‘ Twelfth Beport’ are some special notices from 
cattle-owners of this matter. 
I add one very serviceable observation sent me in 1887 by Mr. . 
Henry Thompson, M.B.C.V.S., of Aspatria, referring to the inflam¬ 
mation and illness caused by Warble-attack to a Heifer placed (for this 
reason) in his charge, and giving the recipe for the dressing used to 
cure the attack :— 
“ Last year about this time I was called in to a little three-year-old 
Heifer, whose back was almost covered with Warbles, and the effect on 
the constitution was very marked; the poor thing was very thin, and 
would not eat; I was satisfied that the irritation set up by the Warbles 
was the cause, and applied the following:—Turpentine, 1| oz.; 
sulphuric acid, 1 drachm (here a chemical action takes place, and must 
be done with caution); to this I added 10 ozs. raw linseed oil, and 
rubbed the cow’s back once a day with the mixture.* In a fortnight 
the back was cleaned, and all the maggots destroyed.” — Henry 
Thompson, M.B.C.V.S., Aspatria, Cumberland, April 11th, 1887. 
The observations of cattle-owners have shown for years that the 
stock is so much improved in health by being saved from irritation in 
the back, that thus the better milk-supply and the fatting of the beasts 
* The sulphuric-acid, turpentine, and raw linseed-oil mixture is an old prepara¬ 
tion (very old), and is known by the name of “ black oils.”— H. T. 
