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the above, anything can be added to the application having a scent 
likely to deter attack, it is all the better. 
For this purpose reports have been sent me during the past 
sixteen years of successful application of smears, dips, ointments, 
&c., far too numerous to enter on in detail, but I just mention 
names of a few, with the request to my readers that they will 
please to observe that this is without prejudice to others, whose 
manufactures, so long as the above-mentioned - conditions of the 
dressing were held to, and due care exercised in applying them, 
could not fail to have good effects. 
Messrs. F. & C. Calvert’s carbolic sheep-wash, in a somewhat 
stronger solution than as applied to sheep—which was in proportion 
of 80 to 100 of water to 1 of the carbolic-wash—was found to answer 
applied to parts affected with warbles. 
Ointment prepared by the Dee Oil Co., Chester. 
Carbolic acid diluted ivith water (where greasy mixtures are 
objected to), but experiment should be made or veterinary advice 
asked as to precise strength. 
Warble Fly paste, manufactured by Messrs. Tomlinson & Hay¬ 
ward, Lincoln. 
Train-oil and sulphur, applied to the warbles of the consistency 
of thick cream, is particularly well spoken of. 
McDouyall’s preparations —that is, the smear, and in some cases 
the sheep-dip—are especially noticed as serviceable for destroying 
the maggots, by being placed on the opening of the warble. 
Mr. David Byrd, writing from Spurstow Hall, Tarporley, Chester, 
regarding method of application, mentioned:— 
“ The mode of dressing we adopted was to shape a piece of wood 
or stick like a knife-blade with a point. We searched carefully for 
the warble-hole, leaving a good portion of the smear on the warble; 
this appeared to completely choke up and kill the maggot. The mode 
of dressing to kill the warble was not painful to the cattle ; those 
that were quiet appeared to like the friction.”—(D. B.) 
Relatively to the effect of salt in destroying the maggot, this 
appears to be serviceable whether rubbed well in as brine or strong 
salt and water with a wisp of straw into the coat, so that it may 
reach the opening of the warble even at the earliest stage, or applied 
by the backs of the cattle being damped and salt well rubbed in. 
No mention is made in one case specially reported, where the cattle 
“were terribly infested with grubs,” of any pain being caused by 
the application of the salt. The operation was repeated a week 
later, “and every grub was destroyed,” 
