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flowers of sulphur 1 pound each, to every 4 gallous of water to be used. 

 The tobacco should be steeped iu a portiou of the water two or three 

 successive times so as to extract all of the juice. The leaves -or stems 

 may be used; of the latter three times the weight is required as is 

 ueeded of the former ; a press or wriuger is convenient to squeeze out 

 all of the liquor from them. The sulphur should be mixed with some 

 of the tobacco water and stirred until it is of creamy consistency. 

 These ingredients should be added to the required amount of water. 

 During the dipping this mixture should be constantly stirred and a lit- 

 tle fresh water added from time to time to replace that lost by evapora- 

 tion. 



This dip, to be more effective, should be heated to between 100° and 

 110° Fah. iu summer, and 110° and 120° Fah. in winter, never being 

 allowed to fsill under or exceed these limits. The sheep should remain 

 immersed in it from sixty to ninety seconds, and the head should be 

 completely immersed at least once. 



When sheep with heavy fleeces are dipped it will be found necessary 

 to separate the fleece with the hands, that the fluid may permeate better. 

 Eight or ten days after the first dipping the treatment should be re- 

 peated. Sometimes a third and more rarely a fourth dipping is neces- 

 sary. When the last two are required it is most often due to care- 

 lessness in preparation, or a failure in the strength of the first dips. 

 Sometimes it may be necessitated by the rain having washed off the 

 first solution soon after dipping. 



Australian sulphur and lime dip: Take of flowers of sulphur 100 

 liounds, of quicklime 150 pounds, water 100 gallons. Mix and stir 

 while boiling for ten minutes, until the mixture assumes a bright red 

 color, then add 3 gallous of water. Hold the sheep in the mixture until 

 the scabs are thoroughly soaked. Immerse the head at least once. TJse 

 the dip at 100 to 110° Fah. Dip twice at an interval of two weeks. 



In the American Merino, 1887, Stephen Powers gives an excellent 

 description of sheei) dipping on a large scale, and the following recipes 

 in use in various sections of the United States: 



Texas and New Mexico : Thirty pounds of tobacco, 7 iiouuds of sulphur, 3 pounds 

 of concentrated lye, dissolved iu 100 gallous of water. 



Nevada: sulphur, 10 pounds; lime, 20 pouuds; water, 60 gallons. 



California : Sulphur, 4 pounds ; lime, 1 pound ; water, enough to make 4 gallous. 



Kansas: Sulphur, 22 pouuds; lime, 7 pounds; water, 100 gallous. 



Sulphur and lime is probably the cheapest recipe, but the lime is ai)t to injure the 

 staple ; still this recipe appears to jirevail over all others iu the scab-infested 

 regions. Probably tobacco and sulphur form the best combination known for the 

 treatment of scab. To every huudrod gallons of water there should be used 35 pounds 

 of good strong tobacco (if stems or other inferior parts are used there should bo 

 more), and 10 pounds of flowers of sulphur. This preparation used at a temperature 

 of 120° Fah., will kill all acari ticks and lice, and leave the wool in a healthy con^ 

 tlition. To insure thgroqgl^ work apply fl. §epond time iu tgij ds-ys or two yreeKs, 



