classes of hide most attacked. 
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quality is not at all deteriorated; it interferes very much with the 
outward appearance, and more if the beef hangs for a week or more ; 
the colour becomes somewhat darker, but certainly it has not a hitter 
taste, for only on Sunday last we cooked a piece (of beef of that 
character) from an'animal slaughtered ten days before, which was very 
much licked, and beef of better quality no one could eat.” 
Mr. Wm. Thompson, Newcastle, writes:—“When beef is badly 
licked, it is very bitter ; I have seen it quite unsaleable, all the outside 
fat taken off, and you could not get the bottom of it. Sometimes it is 
so bad that it is right through the chain and down to the rib-bone, 
when it is as bad as that it is quite useless.” 
It is perhaps worse than useless to venture a conjecture where 
those who thoroughly understand the subject differ amongst themselves 
in opinion, but it does occur whether the difference in bitterness of 
taste may not be according to the completeness with which the diseased 
tissues above the meat may have been removed.— Ed. 
With regard to age of cattle at which infestation has been found most 
■prevalent, it will be seen by casting the eye along the columns of the 
folding table of particulars of sound and warbled hides sold at one of 
the Birmingham markets, that the three heaviest classes named, 
ranging from 75 lbs. to 95 lbs. and upwards, do not suffer as much as 
the three lighter classes, of which details are given on the same table. 
The three lighter classes (that is, the classes weighing G5 to 74 lbs., 
66 to 64 lbs., and 55 lbs. and under) are principally heifer hides, and 
are shown by the table to be the greatest sufferers. We also find that 
in these three lighter classes infestation was found continuing from 
about seven to sixteen weeks later in the season than with the three 
heavier classes, warble being still present in the lighter classes to some 
degree up to Sept. 19th. Dates from Feb. 14th to Sept. 19th, 1885. 
The following notes give some individual observations on the 
subject of the warble-maggots being found in young things, down to 
the size of animal of which the back can be reached by a little lad of 
ten years old. These are perhaps no information to all versed in 
warble matters, but are inserted partly in reply to an enquiry, or 
erroneous view, recently sent me :— 
“ Cattle at the age of one or two years are most subject to attack.” 
—John Dalton, Wigton, Cumberland. 
“ Young (yearliug and two-year-old) beasts are most subject to 
attack [of warbles], and shorthorns more so than the thicker-skinned 
Welsh or Scotch breeds ; the hide of a Welsh ‘ runt’ is quite twice as 
thick as that of a shorthorn bullock.”—E. A. Eitch, Brick House, 
Maldon, Essex. 
“ They are worst upon young cattle, if they strike, as they often 
