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be continued for a month or six weeks, although I have 

 often cured recent cases in 2 or 3 applications I have 

 never yet found a case that has resisted this treatment 

 when I have personally supervised the applications. 



The utensils and stalls should be thoroughly disin- 

 fected by being boiled if possible. The immovable 

 parts of the stable fixtures should be well washed with 

 hot water and soap and then coated with a solution of 

 the MANGE CURE a half pint to two gallons of warm 

 water. 



FLIES AND MOSQUITOES. 



In some climates these parasites are exceedingly 

 deleterious to the health of domestic animals. In Fig. 

 63 we give a picture of the business end of a mosquito, 

 in which it will be seen that it is built especially for the 

 purpose of boring into tough structures. The sharp 

 pointed dagger is inserted through the skin of many 

 animals with the greatest ease. 



Fig. 63. Head of Mosquito showing the sharp proboscis. 



There is a fly known as the grey horse-fly, in some lo- 

 calities as the green-head which is very annoying to 



