SUMMARY. 
buted to all applicants. This lias been mostly gratuitously, at my own 
wish and request, though not entirely so. As 133,000 of the four-page 
warble leaflet have been distributed, and about 25,000 of the longer 
leaflet entitled ‘ Licked Beef,’ and as those who were good enough to 
help our important cause by undertaking distribution of large numbers 
had all the trouble and postal expenses, I declined wherever I could to 
receive payment. 
In this present abstract, which I have now the honour of laying 
before my readers, I have endeavoured so to arrange the main points 
of the information collected in our many years’ work as to form a 
connected account, beginning with egg and egg-laying of the Warble 
Fly, and working on through its life-history and habits, and structural 
details of the maggot (by which it lies in our power to destroy it), up 
to its complete development; then to continue with the sometimes 
ruinous and constantly injurious effects of the attack to health and 
produce and return to grower and purchaser of the infested animals, 
giving under these heads the result of special investigations as to 
“ licked beef,” and also special returns regarding losses on hides. To 
this is added, at considerable length, details of measures of prevention 
and remedy, and also result of the same in getting rid of the pest, not 
only locally, but, as in the case of our carefully watched work at Bun¬ 
bury and Tarporley, Cheshire, over a whole district. 
In this I have endeavoured with the greatest care to do justice to 
the importance of the subject, and it will be seen that I have carefully 
avoided giving general views and considerations that may or may not 
be right, but have as far as possible given each observation in the 
contributor’s own words, with the name appended. Very much more 
could be given from my Reports—because for several years we went 
over the same ground—especially of means of prevention and remedy, 
that by the evidence of so many witnesses, giving their separate testimony 
in their own words, the fact which we were working up to of the 
possibility of certainly and cheaply stamping out warble-attack might 
be made sure. Those who wish to go over the many repeated details 
will find them in the Reports referred to at p. 58; but in this 
pamphlet I have taken those standing on the highest authority, and 
I think those who will look at the high standing of the names of those 
leading men and leading firms who have given their help in the 
different branches of this national investigation, will think we need 
not fear to go far astray. 
One thing I do greatly fear, and that is mischief from erroneous 
advice of those who, whilst they have neither practical nor scientific 
knowledge of the attack or its cure, yet unfortunately may, by their 
attempts to institute unfounded methods of treatment, put back our 
good work. I would most earnestly bey all interested, to be on their guard. 
