REMEDIES. 409 



When the sheep aw gathered in corral 11, and the arrange- 

 ments for dipping are completed, the sheep are forced into the 

 trough, D D, (in which the liquid is twenty-seven inches in 

 depth, and kept at a temperature of 80° Fahr.) ; with the pole 

 T, the animal is forced under the surface of the liquid. One of 

 the gates B is open ; the animal reaches the bridge C and en- 

 ters the corral through the open gate ; when this corral is 

 filled with sheep the gate is closed and the gate of the other 

 opened. During the time the second corral is being filled the 

 sheep placed in the first are sufficiently dripped (or clear of 

 the li(|uid), and are allowed to go to the pasture ; thus the cor- 

 rals are filled and emptied alternately. A great many sheep 

 can be dipped in a day in this way. The supply of liquid and 

 temperature is kept up by the boiler E. Two hundred and 

 seventy-five pounds of suli)hur and 70 pounds of lime will 

 make sufficient wash for 4,0(X) sheep after the tank is filled at 

 first. 



By covering the trough 1) D, the wash can be kept from one 

 season to another. 



If the above directions are complied with after each clipping, 

 it is an etfectual remedy for the scab. 



It is not necessary to boil all the water required to make the 

 solution. 



This industry should be protected by legislation, by pre- 

 venting infested flocks being driven from one section of the 

 State to another, as beyond doubt the scab is spread to all 

 sheep grazing on lands over which infested flocks are driven. 



Such laws have been enacted in Australia, and have been of 

 great benefit to sheep-raisers. 



REMEDY NO. 98. 



Spirits of turpentine injected into the nostrils with a syr- 

 inge, will eftectually destroy the maggot of the sheep bot-fly ; 

 also, maggot in the ears or any part of the body. 



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