Excerpt from Horse-Flies: Biologies and Relation to Western Agriculture Blood-sucking flies of the family Tabanidae are very serious pests to horses, cattle, and other domestic animals. In certain cattle-grow ing sections of the United States, particularly where swampy areas exist, tabanids are pests of great economic importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.