The southward spread of buffalo fly (Haematobia irritans exigua) in eastern Australia and its survival through a severe winter

The southward spread of buffalo fly (Haematobia irritans exigua) in coastal eastern Australia from Bororen, Queensland in 1974 to Coffs Harbour, New South Wales in 1982 is documented. Surveys after a cold, dry winter in 1982 recorded overwintering sites and subsequent spread of flies in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Buffalo fly overwintered at several places in the Maryborough-Bauple districts and further north. Overwintering also occurred in the Currumbin Valley-Mudgeeraba area on the Queensland-New South Wales border. Other infestations detected early in the season and believed to have arisen from local overwintering populations were observed at Kin Kin, Mount Tamborine and Flinders Peak. By May 1983 flies had recolonised much of coastal south eastern Queensland, and as far south as Ballina and west to the Richmond Range in New South Wales. Implications of these findings for control are discussed.     

The effect of a staphylococcal cell wall factor on the early inflammatory response to staphylococcal infection of the lactating bovine udder

The effect on the early inflammatory response in the bovine mammary gland of a factor extracted from the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus was studied. The insoluble factor was extracted from a 3h-culture, and was mixed with S. aureus from an overnight culture (OF) for experimental infection of a lactating quarter. Other quarters were infected with a 3h or an overnight culture (O). Five cows were used in the experiment. The O-quarters showed more severe clinical signs than seen in the 3h-and OF-quarters. Antitrypsin levels and NAGase concentrations were much reduced in the 3h-and OF-quarters. While the cell wall factor profoundly reduced the early inflammatory response, the effect on the final outcome of the infection was not determined.     

Constraints on farm woodland planting in England: a study of Nottinghamshire farmers

A recent change in British agricultural and forestry policyhas been the shift towards the encouragement of substantialplanting of new woodland on farmland in England. Previous studiesof farm woodland planting are reviewed. A study of the attitudesof 30 farmers on the Bunter Sandstone in western Nottinghamshireto the establishment of new farm woodland is assessed. It isconcluded that new policy instruments such as special farm woodlandplanting grants and the establishment of Community Forests andspecial regional forestry initiatives have not yet brought aboutany significant change in the general opposition of farmersto the conversion of agricultural land to woodland