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by the Hon. Cecil Parker, from the Eaton Estate Office, Eccleston, 
Chester, also mentions the attack having been nearly got rid of:— 
“ I am quite sure that more notice has been taken of the means of 
destroying the warble. As far as our own cattle, are concerned, we 
have nearly exterminated them by killing the maggot in the beast, and 
also by smearing the backs of the stock twice in the season. If the 
farmers could be persuaded that they lose money,—in cows by the 
milk getting less, and by the beasts losing flesh,—they would take 
more interest ” (1889, as also three following notes). 
Sir J. Stewart Richardson, Bart., of Pitfour Castle, Perth, N.B., 
writing on September 24th, similarly mentioned benefit following the 
care taken:—“For the last three years I have been waging war 
against the warble-pest, and think I have done a good deal to alleviate 
the sufferings of my cattle, and the result is that I have nothing to 
complain of as to the way they have fed.” 
In September last, Mr. J. Risdon, Auctioneer of the Devon Cattle 
Breeders’ Society, writing from Golsoncott Farm, near Taunton, 
mentioned that last spring he had all the animals in his own herd 
dressed with sulphur and lard, which, he believed, killed every maggot 
in their skins. He further added:—“There are many farmers who 
at first regarded the Warble Fly as a mere ‘fad,’ who are now anxious 
to use means to relieve their cattle of the pest.”—J. R. 
Mr. Henry Thorp Hincks (Auctioneer), Silver Street, Leicester, 
wrote on April 9th, with regard to success of preventive measures:— 
“ Out of a herd of over seventy head dressed last year for warbles, this 
season one cow only has one warble upon it.”—H. T. H. 
These show success in the special localities reported from; but the 
manner in which, by steady quiet attention, the warble-presence in 
the cattle-farming district round Bunbury and Tarporley was reduced 
from its enormous prevalence a few years ago down to the result of 
most careful search only bringing in twenty maggots, is a very 
important record. 
This has been the ivork of the boys of the Aldersey Grammar School at 
Bunbury, Tarporley , Cheshire, at first under the suggestion and instruc¬ 
tion of the Head Master, Mr. W. Bailey, but now continued also from 
the benefit accruing to the cattle and thence to their owners. 
The majority of the boys of the school are sons of farmers, and 
the returns therefore show the benefit of the treatment, whether on 
the broad scale of the many head of cattle owned by tenants of large 
farms under the Duke of Westminster or other great land-owners, 
or to the one or two cows of a small holder, to whom the health of 
his animals is even more important. 
We (I can say we, as I had the pleasure of co-operating with Mi\ 
