APPLICATIONS. 
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In the following notes observations have been chosen from great 
numbers, just to show the variety of applications that answer, and 
that various firms furnish them ; but readers will please observe that 
this is without prejudice of 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. 
The following observations, with which I was favoured on June 
5th, by Mr. Gerard Meynell (of the Norfolk Estuary Company), writing 
from 20, Whitehall Place, London, S.W., refer to the successful use of 
Calvert’s carbolic sheep-wash for destroying warble-maggot:— 
“For some years past the sheep on this Company’s farm at Lynn 
have been dipped in a solution of Messrs. F. C. Calvert & Co.’s carbolic 
sheep-wash,—80 to 100 of water to 1 of the carbolic wash supplied,—- 
which has effectually kept them free from all scab, lice, ticks, fleas, 
&c. Last week I examined the Company’s herd, and found some of 
them affected with warbles. I had a somewhat stronger solution of 
the carbolic sheep-wash applied to the parts affected. On the following 
day all the warbles appeared to be dead; the more mature ones 
certainly were so ” (1888, as also the three following notes). 
Mr. J. Stewart Peter, of Calley, Bridge of Calley, Perthshire, on 
June 20th, sent me the following note, suggestive of dilute carbolic 
acid being in some cases better than greasy applications :— 
“I have dressed a number of sliort-liorn crosses as directed, and 
feel sure that they will derive great benefit from it. I rather object to 
dressing my West Highlanders, though, with an oily or greasy mixture, 
as it will mat their shaggy hair, and prejudice the English buyers 
against them when they come north in November. I think for them 
carbolic acid and water ought to suffice.” 
The two following observations refer to successful use of ointment 
prepared by the Dee Oil Company, Chester. The first was forwarded 
to me by Sir James T. Stewart Richardson, Bart., of Pitfour Castle, 
Perth, N.B. :—• 
“ I have been trying a new warble ointment this summer, from 
the Dee Oil Company, Chester, and the effect on the maggots in the 
warbles was marvellous, and I am now dressing all my cattle to pre¬ 
vent the fly striking next month.” 
Miss Lyle Smith, writing from Barrowmore Farm, Chester, also 
sent the following note :— 
“ You may be interested to know that the Dee Oil Company, in 
Chester, prepare a kind of grease of which they send samples gratis 
to any farmer who will try it. I found it most efficacious, as did also 
a neighbour, who had lost a heifer simply from attack of this creature 
[warble-maggot— Ed.] in the spring.” 
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