Show warbles resist salt some stockmen stoc kmen have long believed that salt treatments either dry salt or brine are effective in killing grubs or warbles in the backs of cattle but a scientific test of salt applications showed that they were virtually if not entirely ineffective J of t the he united states department of ag agriculture kicul tested a strong brine rubbed over the hair of sev several eral animals and found that it did not kill grubs he injected brine into the holes in the hide bide and the grubs survived and ile he rubbed brine repeatedly over the lumps in the back of a steer from which the hair had b ad been clipped his conclusion was that the frequent brushing brushings brush ings gs were more effective in killing in gru grubs ba than the brine was As a result the bureau of animal industry Is not recommend recommending in the simple salt cure for grubs it t is simple elou enough gh but it does not cure |