If not properly cared for from the beginning, the animals will soon be ailing; some grow unfit for service, and much time is lost mornings and evenings curing their sores.

Through the carelessness of some packers I lost several valuable mules from such wounds.

In summer the blue-bottle fly aggravates the annoyance, as it lays its eggs in the open spaces of the skin, and maggots develop in a very short time.

Of course there are many ways of ridding an animal of this pest, but here, as everywhere, the proverbial ounce of prevention is better than the pound of cure.
A curious case of a man whose life was threatened by a blue-bottle fly and its maggots came to nay notice.

He was a soldier, and once in a fight he had his nose cut off so that the nostrils became entirely exposed.