THE SHEEP-MAGGOT.
WELUNGTON, January 30. A bulletin on the cheep maggot (with £ coloured plate of the fly), by Mr Gilruth, Chief Government Veterinarian, has beett issued by the Department of Agriculture, and ccpies are being forwarded to all tn « sheep-owners in the Dominion. The pest hag only within the last year or two been, positive!} identified in New Zealand, but | already "its ravages in some localities are i serious. The illustrated bulletin will enable farmers to identify the fly, aoid chock its spread, and direct them how to protect their flocks from attack. The illustration is of a maggot taken from an .infected sheep. BULLETIN No. 12. DIVISION OF VETERINARY SCIENCE, By J. A. Gilkuth, M.R.C.V.S., F.R.S.E., Chief Veterinarian. During the past summer this pest to thf fiock-owrer was proved to exist in NewZea* land and though, as yet, definitely reoog-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 20
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141THE SHEEP-MAGGOT. Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 20
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