THE AOIUCULTURAL, NKW6. 



History of 

 Coopers Cattle Dip 



fOt THE DESTRUCTION OF TICKS 



• GmIi Dip it the result of 5 years continuous research work, not only by chemists workiiM ji 

 bjr Practic«I Cattlemen working under practical conditions in badly Tick-infested areas. 



It was 11 1905 that our search for th« Perfect Cattle Dip commenced, and llie method we adopted wm to pa 

 poraty for opmnental purposes, a large farm right in the very heart of the Tick-infested Coastal Area of South 

 Thia farm ii alad Gonubie Park, aad it close to East London, in the Cape Province. 



What wt aimtti at was the co-operation of the trained Chemist and the practical Stockman ; so a Laboratory w«« ctcftmi 

 en the Farm is charge of our Head Chemist, and the practical Manager jp charge of the Stock was told that hit first, aaj 

 indeed hit oaif duty, was to assist and further, to the full extent of hit power, the research work of the Chemist. 



It shootd be mentiened thut, previously to its purchase by us, the Farm had been practically abandoned owing I* dw 

 Tick infeatalioa being to bad as to preclude absolutely the raising of either Large or Small Stock — for ticks in South Africs 

 are Ae cave «f omiy other diseases besides Red-water or Texas Fever, which is the only Tick-borne disease of econoaie 

 importance met wirii in mott Tick-infested countries. One cannot conceive of a more grossly Tick-infested area than wat 

 fig— hif Park. It was impossible to keep sheep there for any length of time, as they died from Heart-water, transmitted by 

 Ti^, wkhin a few weeks. About 80^ of the calves bom there also died fcom Heart-water or some othef tick-^tfrae 

 diseate ; whilst dairy farming was in such a deplorable state, due to the ravages of Ticku, that a cow with a sound uddcf and 

 leat* wat a great rarity, and it wat not an uncommon occurrence to be compelled to sell to the butcher, owing to ti^eir u4fIo 

 keipg completely ruined by Tick bites, what had been really firtt-class milking cows. Stock raising, as an economic farnuff 

 propotilion. wat impowible under such conditions. Here, then, was exceHent material for us to work upon. 



Onr next step was to equip the Farm fully with Dipping Tanks, and there are four of these on the property — this number 

 beiag necessary to permit of simultaneous comparative tcttt of various experimental mixtures, of which hundreds were tetled 

 before Cooper's Cattle Dip was finally evolved. 



It is a principle of the " Cooper " business not to put on the market an article upon which the reputation of llie F|na 

 cannot be staked, and so these lengthy and very cottly experiments were persisted in until the Perfect Cattle Dip was arrived 

 at, notwithstanding the fact that, at a very early stage of the researches, a Dip was found which was superior to any Cattle Dip 

 then on sale. But this Dip was not the Perfect Dip, and thus did not satisfy us ; and so the experimental work went on lor 

 •everal years, <or rather than offer the public a dip which was not completely satisfactory, we preferred to tee the busineti i 

 to other firms offering infciior dips, until we had a Dip really worthy of the " Cooper" reputation. 



And that policy of restraint has been rapidly and completely vindicated, for at the present time practically ao 

 Proprietary Cattle Dip it used in South Africa, and the tuccets the Dip has met with since it was first offered for talc 4 ; 

 ago cannot be more strikingly eraphatised than by the list of the Governments and Administrations by which the Dip hat I 

 approved, and, by which, witk hut two «r ibrae acapbeaa, it it being actually used in Oftcial Cattle Djppiaf 

 The list is given below. 



We submit that tbia bl iiiha bmM cmtmcmg •ndemcm iImI coald possibly be prodacad «f dM aaili rf 



COOPER'S CATTLE DIP 



* COOPER'S CATTLE TICK DIP WEST INDIAN AGENTS i 



m — • J ««. ££■ ■ t I e ,t. t §1 .■ f •_-_. ANTIOUA : B«nn««t. Bry»on a C«H 5t. J«aa«. 



mm r«c«in»y th* offteial approval of th, Mlounng C»mnlrtm: BAHAMAS: H. T. Brlce. NasMa, N.P, 



„_, ,„ .. ., , „ .,. „v 1 o M n . . J BARBADOS: Bnrhados Co-operative Co«ton Co, •fMtfi**^ 



DaloB of South Afrlc. Northern Rhodeaia. Brasll. Baaotoland. BRITISH OUIANA: T. OeddM (Irant. LI4. 



Njualand. Swa/.ilaod. Southern Khodesm. Madagascar. DOMINICA: Hon. H. A. rrnmpton. (IRENADA : Thom»on, ti*Bk«F • da. 



aUAUk' LOUPE : The SlaUon Arronomlgue dc la Oyadelo 



teltUb Kant Atrka. Oerman Blast Africa. Portuguese East Africa. Polnt-A-Pllrc. JAMAICA: D. Henderaoo a Ca.. KlaaaUa. 



•-t„,ue«W„tArr:c.. Egy,.t. Argentine RopuhUo. Ou..n.U«l MONTsTrRAT:' W.'^U^^'flyo W.* .'^'nbV^^^^ 



United Staloi ut America. Now South Walaa. AT. KITT5 : 5. L. Horsford & C». ST. LUCIA : Barnard Saua A Ca. 



^ „ .. „ ,, , . . ,. Caatrlea. ST. VINCENT: Corea a Co.. Klaratowa. 



Northern Terrllorjr of AuatraUa. TRINIDAD * TOBAOO: T. Qoddaa OraMl. LM. ' 



AMERICAN VIROIN ISLANDS: O. H. Scii«plac*l»v, St. Cmtm, 



41anufa:lurer8 : WILLIAM COOPER & NEPHEWS, Berkhamsted, EnglamL 



•liAKCHI.5 : T.r«.u. aicag* S.da*r. MeA>«mK iwhkMl. ttmmt Aim. MmI* Viiaa. PvM , 



