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Mr. Edw. Argyle, writing from Tamwortli on March 14tli, re¬ 
marked :—“ I am an amateur breeder and keeper of stock, of which 
I am very fond, and I have been much interested in this question; 
and have had my cattle dressed with train-oil, common salt, &c., and 
I have found that as a consequence they have to a great extent escaped 
the attack of the Bot Fly, and no doubt much suffering.” Later on 
in the year, writing on September 24th, he favoured me with the 
following report of continued success of his treatment during the 
summer of 1889 :— 
“ I am glad to say that I believe the fly has not been anything like 
so troublesome about here this season as it has usually been. I have 
never seen my cattle at all distressed by it. I may mention that 
I have employed common salt for the destruction of the grub this 
season with good results. I bought some young cattle of very nice 
quality in the early summer; they were terribly infested with grubs. 
I had their backs damped, and salt well rubbed in, and this was 
repeated about a week later. The result was that every grub was 
destroyed. I had all my cattle dressed over with train-oil before 
turning them out permanently, and they appear to have done well and 
escaped the fly. If all stock-keepers could be induced to adopt some 
such simple expedient, the fly might soon be stamped out.”—E. A. 
Mr. S. Conyers Scrope, writing from Darley Hall, Bedale, Yorks., 
mentioned with regard to Warble-maggots :—“ I have for long been in 
the habit of carefully searching my winter beasts for them about March 
or April, before turning them out for the summer, and have had the 
satisfaction of seeing them quiet and contented during the heat of 
summer, whilst those of my neighbours seemed driven mad by the 
Warble Flies.”—S. C. S. 
On July 15th, Mr. George S. Rodger, writing from Harelaw Farm, 
Barrhead, N.B., mentioned as follows :—“ We used the sulphur, spirits 
of tar, and oil mixture for the first dressing for the Bot Fly last year 
on our dairy stock, but, as the smell was rather disagreeable to the 
milkers, we used a solution of McDougall’s Hip afterwards, with the 
result that there were only one or two Warbles on the whole stock this 
spring, whilst some bought-in cows were very badly affected with them. 
So we have continued to use McDougall’s this year also, and they have 
settled extremely well through all the hot, dry weather, and prevalence 
of ‘Gad-fly’ that there has been, which I think annoys them, and 
sets them galloping about the fields as readily as the Bot Fly.”— 
G. S. R. 
Mr. Fred. Rose, writing on November 7th from Boiling Wells Farm, 
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, remarked :—“ On the appearance of Warbles on 
any beast, I immediately dress them with train-oil and tar, which 
immediately destroys the insect, and is a preventitive.” 
