Flies Injurious to Stock; Being Life-Histories and Means of Prevention of a Few Kinds Commonly Injurious, with Special Observations on Ox Warble or Bot Fly
Flies Injurious to Stock; Being Life-Histories and Means of Prevention of a Few Kinds Commonly Injurious, with Special Observations on Ox Warble or Bot Fly
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...animal, which is very peculiar, as you seldom see them." Dr. W. Fream, who entomologically as well as agriculturally would be acquainted with attacks 'Monographie der (Estriden, ' von Friedrich Brauer, Wien, pp. 137, 138. Also quoted in extenao (trans.) in my Annual Beport for 1886, p. 90, K. A. O. of this nature, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...animal, which is very peculiar, as you seldom see them." Dr. W. Fream, who entomologically as well as agriculturally would be acquainted with attacks 'Monographie der (Estriden, ' von Friedrich Brauer, Wien, pp. 137, 138. Also quoted in extenao (trans.) in my Annual Beport for 1886, p. 90, K. A. O. of this nature, wrote me: "Eegarding your query about warbles in the horse, I have only known one case." Mr. E. Stratton, of the Duffryn, Newport, Mon., amongst other information with which he kindly favoured me about this attack, mentioned: "You seldom find more than one on a horse." Messrs. H. & C. Hatton, of the Barton Tannery, Hereford, noted that they had known a few instances of horses being attacked by Warble Fly, but had never received a hide showing the effects. Mr. John Dalton, also of the Tannery, Wigton, Cumberland, mentioned: "Of the horse-hides I get, I should say not one in fifty is warbled, and the appearance of the hides when tanned shows that warbles in the horse are of rare occurrence; there is no cicatrix, as in cattle, and when a warble does exist, it is a single one, and never, so far as I have seen, in numbers... I never remember seeing more than one warble hole in a horse-hide; I mean in any single hide." The locality of attack was noted as being not only along the back, as commonly occurs in the case of warbles on cattle, but also on neck, flank, and quarter. Also, though the numbers of warbles were very few, both by reason of the very small proportion of horses attacked, and also the very small presence on the attacked animals, yet the mischief caused was (or had a power of being) much more serious than is caused by any one warble in cattle. As an example, Mr. Thompson, before referred to, wrote me t...
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