Jan. 2, 1920.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 19 



Licks for Different Classes of Country* 



F. B. GUTHRIE. 



The substances used in stock licks consist for the most part of substances 

 like calcium phosphate, bonedust or bone-ash, and common salt, which 

 may be regarded as supplying the saline matter abs^^nt or deficient in 

 the natural herbage, or else of substances which have a purely medicinal, as 

 apart from a food, value, such as sulphate of iron, sulphur, Epsom salts, 

 gentian, turpentine, &c. The latter do not occur naturally in soil, water, or 

 herbage, and are given as puriratives, tonics, vermifuges, and for other 

 medicinal purposes, to ailing stock. 



The accompanying list (furnished by the Cliief Inspector of Stock) of 

 formuhe recommended by the Stock Department at different times and for 

 dilierent purposes indicates the nature of the substances principally 

 employed : — 



(1) Stomach Worms and Fluke — 



(Annual Report, 1895, Mr. S. C. Pottie, M.R.C.V.S.) 



Liverpool salt ... ... ... ... ... ... 200 lb. 



Sulphate of ii'on .. 

 Sulphur 



Powdered charcoal 

 ,, gentian 



15 



10 



10 

 o 



(2) ^¥orms in Larn)s — 



{Agricultural Gazette, April, 1910, Mr. Max Henry, M.R.C.V.S.) 



Liv^erpool salt ... ... ... ... 10 lb. 



Bone-meal ... ... ... ... . . ... 5 ,, 



Sulphate of iron... ... ... ... ... ... \„ 



(3) Worms in Sheep — 



(Agricultural Gazette, August, 1911.) 



Sulphate of iron ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 part. 



Bone-meal ... ... ... ... ... .. 5 parts. 



Liverpool salt ... ... ... .. ... ... 30 ,, 



(Agricultural Gazette, February, 1913, Mr. Ma.x Henry, M.R.C.V.S.) 



Calcium phosphate .. ... ... ., o parts. 



Sulphate of i I on ... ... ... ... ... 1 jitirt. 



Liverpool salt ... ... .. ... ... ... -JO paits. 



(Annual Report, 1895.) No quantities given. 



(a) Salt and sulphur. 



{h) •,, ,, sulphate of iron. 



(c) ,, ,, turpentine. 



id) ,, ,, sulphate of iron and turpentine. 



(e) ,, ,, sulphur and sulphate of iron. 



(./ ) ,, ,, sulphate of iron and Hayward's Specific. 



ig) „ ,, lime. 



