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tables and notes the steady and immediate drop in amount of 
warble-presence where care was taken was clearly shown, and 
also the immediate running-up of numbers where uncared-for 
cattle bad been brought in, or from some cause there had been 
difficulty in giving the necessary attention. 
These lists are of use for reference as not only showing precisely 
the small numbers of warbles to be found where warble maggots 
were exterminated in the previous year, but also the very 'plentiful 
supply found on bought-in cattle. In one of the tables before me, 
containing reports of condition of nineteen herds (or numbers of 
cattle) examined, of as many as fifty-seven, forty-two, forty, &c., 
down to two cows, the numbers of warbles found were in almost 
every instance very few, as from one to four in each herd (or 
collective number), excepting where cattle had been brought in. 
The following is an extract of just a few entries from one of the 
tables, to show the manner in which the record was kept 
Name. Stock examined. Number of warbles found. 
Percy Willis 20 cows and 20 yearling calves 3 warbles in cow lately bought. 
Edgar Willis 40 cows and 3 heifers. Only 2 warbles. jq n others. 
John Whittle 42 cows. 7 warbles in cow bought, none 
Thomas Jones 20 cows. 50 do. [bought cattle, E. A. O.) 
John Kirkham 3 cows and 1 heifer . None. 
The work has been so much entered on previously that further 
details are not needed here, beyond that the observations are to be 
found in various of my Annual Reports, in the case above quoted 
the Eleventh, that for 1887, p. 113. It should be observed, 
however, that the work being done by boys employed about the 
cattle has great advantages. They can keep watch and remove 
the maggots successively as they become noticeable, and thus make 
a very complete clearance, and for a very trifling reward are willing 
to do so. At the Aldersey Grammar School a certain number of 
marks were given which, I believe, meant some small prize, or 
something of the sort, to be given presently to the collectors of the 
greatest numbers of maggots. But the boys worked with a will, 
one against the other, and the farmers were so well satisfied 
with the results that they allowed the lads free access for the 
search. 
Much is said from time to time as to it being made compulsory 
on all cattle-owners to dress their cattle in some satisfactory 
manner, or otherwise so treat them as to remove the warble 
maggots, and that the police shall see the order carried out, 
