THE AGEICULTUEAL NEWS. 



History op 

 Cooper's Cattle 



FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF TICKS 



IP 



CATTLI TICK 



Cooper's Cattle Dip is the result of 5 years continuous research work, not only by chemists working in a 

 Laboratory, but by Practical Cattlemen working under practical conditions in badly Tick-infesled areas. 



It was m 1905 that our search for the Perfect Cattle Dip commenced, and the method we adopted was to purchase, 

 purely for experimental purposes, a large farm right in the very heart of tl-ie Tick-infested Coastal Area of South Africa. 

 This farm is called Gonubie Park, and is close to East London, in the Cape Province. 



What we aimed at was the co-operation of the trained Chemist and the practical Stockman ; so a Laboratory was erected 

 on the Farm in charge of our Head Chemist, and the practical Manager m charge of the Stock was told that his first, and 

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



It should be mentioned that, previously to its purchase by us, the Farm had been practically abandoned owing to the 

 Tick infestation being so bad as to preclude absolutely the raising of either Large or Small Stock — for tick? in South Africa ' 

 are the cause of many other diseases besides Red-water or Texas Fever, which is the only Tick-borne disease of economic 

 importance met with in most Tick-infested countries. One cannot conceive of a more gros:ly Tick-infested area than was 

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

 Ticks, within a few weeks. .^bout 80 '.. of the calves born there abo died from Heart-water or some other tick-borne 

 disease ; whilst dairy farming was in such a deplorable state, due to the ravages of Ticks, that a cow with a sound udder and 



teats was a great rarity, and it was not an uncommon occurrence to be compelled to sell to the butcher, owing to their udders 

 )eing completely ruined by Tick bites, what had been really first-class milking cows. Stock raising, as an economic farming 

 Jiroposition, was impossible under such conditions. Here, then, was excellent material for us to work upon. 



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

 being necessary to permit of simultaneous comparative tests of various experimental mixtures, of which hundreds were tested 

 before Cooper's Cattle Dip was finally evolved. 



1 It is a principle of the "' Cooper " business not to put on the market an article upon which the reputation of the Firm 

 iannot be staked, and so these lengthy and very costly experiments were persisted m 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 for 

 Several years, for rather than offer the public a dip which was not completely satisfactory, we preferred to see the business going 

 to other firms offering inferior 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 no other 

 Proprietary Cattle Dip is used in South Africa, and the success the Dip has met with since it was first offered for sale 4 years 

 ago cannot be more strikingly emphasised than by the list of the Governments and Administrations by which the Dip has been 

 approved, and, by wfiich, with but two or three exceptions, it is being actually used in Official Cattle Dipping Operations. 

 The list is given below. 



We submit that this list is the most convincing evidence that could possibly be produced of the merits of 



COOPER'S CATTLE DIP 



COOPER'S CATTLE TICK DIP 

 Hat receivtd the official appreoal of the following Countrieti 

 VbIoo of Sonth Africa, Nortliem Rhodesia, Brazil, Basutolaad, 



Nyasalaad, Swazilaad, Soothern Rbodesla, Madajascar, 



•ritjgb East Africa, Qermao East Africa, Portagnese East Africa, 



Portuguese West Africa, E^pt, Arfentlae Repablic, Qaeenslaad, 



United States of America, New Sontb Wales, 



Northern Territory of Aastralia. 



Manufacturers : WILLIAM COOPER & 



WEST INDIAN AGENTS i 



ST. KITT5: .^. L. Horsford & Co. ANTIQUA: Bennett, Brr<«B ft Co. 



JAMAICA; D. Henderson & Co., Kinfrston. 



(ikHNADA: Tbomson. Hankey & Co. 



BARBAU05: Barbados Co-operative Cotton Co., Ltd. 



BAHAMAS: \V. N. Twynam. Nassau. 



TRINIDAD: T. Qeddes Qrant. Port of 3palo. 



BRITISH GUIANA: 5andbach. Parker & Co. 



ST. VINCENT: Corea & Co., Kingstown. NEVIS: S. D. Mslone. 



DANISH WEST INDIES: A. Schmlegelow. St. Croix. 



MONTSERRAT: W. Llewellyn Wall. DOMINICA: Hon.H. A.PraniDtoa. 



ST. LUCIA: Burnard Sons & Co., Castries. 



NEPHEWS, Berkhamsted, England. 



BRANCHES : Tereito, Ciiica{o, SjiMtj, Ntlboano, AocJiJaa^ Batatt Aiie*, Honte Viilco, Pasta Arau, E«it Loadon, Od«s«. 



