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WARBLES. 
mentioning the good reception given to the information (placed in my 
hands for public use), it appears to me that this is the long-wanted 
point by which we can bring home to those whom no other argument 
will touch, the really absolute and demonstrable injury to their animals, 
and loss to themselves from allowing their cattle to suffer from maggots 
in the back until their condition is lowered at a rate estimable in 
regular trade dealings at so much a stone. 
The aggregate of the loss is, as has been shown, to be reckoned by 
millions of pounds, hut as noted before :—Every one of those warbled 
hides is a sign of so much out of the farmer’s pocket for the food he 
spent in feeding grubs in his cattle’s backs, which should have gone to 
form meat and milk, instead of being wasted in foul maggot-sores; and 
the quantities of hides of dead beasts brought in with their backs “in a 
mass of jelly,” show there IS loss going on to an extent that no farmer 
would allow to go on if he did but know the cause, and the easy cure. 
There is no need now, as there was six years ago, to seek for the 
history of the Warble-attack, or for sure method of prevention or 
remedy; we know these well now from the treatment widely approved 
throughout the country by our leading cattle-owners and farmers, and 
can point to the cattle in many a district and farm being delivered by 
a very little care from this one at least of their troubles. But, beyond 
this, there is the number to be considered of those who do not care to 
think, nor to take trouble, and had rather go on telling old wives’ tales 
about “health-humps” than free the cattle’s backs from maggots. 
Our hope for progress lies (for one thing) in all who are interested 
helping to spread plain information, and we are certainly doing well in 
this respect, as upwards of a hundred thousand of the Warble leaflet, 
of which a copy is added at the end of this Report, have been 
distributed, and copies of this in the North and South Welsh dialects 
have also been distributed in the Principality. But we could also do 
much good by gaining spread of instruction in schools in agricultural 
districts. A very little teaching—ten minutes’ instruction to the boys, 
with specimens of the maggot shown at the same time—would be 
enough for them; they would see the state of the case, and in all pro¬ 
bability help with the greatest willingness; and in the very near future 
we should by this means gain farm-helpers and cattle-lads who would 
give no ear to the sort of bumps out of which with their own hands 
they had squeezed maggots and filth being called healtli-bumps; and 
for their elders, as at Bunhury, the improved state of the cattle would 
soon bring thorough approval of the work. 
Eor my own part in this, I am only happy to continue to forward 
to all applicants copies for distribution of my four-page Warble-leaflet, 
of which a sample is appended, or that on Licked Beef and Jelly, and 
its results; and also to offer any information in my power to any 
applicant. 
