REMEDY FOR TICKS. 47 



veins and deprive a lamb of life. The draft upon the vitality of 

 lambs inf ested with ticks is very great, and sufficient to arrest their 

 growth altogether. To rid the flock of these pests is therefore a 

 necessary labor in the spring or early summer, and if need be, 

 again in the autumn. The easiest remedy is to dip both sheep and 

 lambs, as soon as the sheep are shorn, and again in August or 

 September, in a decoction of tobacco mixed with sulphur. Coarse 

 plug tobacco, or tobacco stems, which are cheaper than the leaves, 

 and equally effective, are steeped in water at a boiling heat, but 

 not boiling, at the rate of four pounds to twenty gallons of water. 



Fig. 16. DIPPING SHEEP. 



One pound of flowers of sulphur is then stirred in the liquid, which 

 is brought to a temperature of 120 degrees, and kept so during the 

 dipping by the addition of fresh hot liquor. During the dipping, 

 the mixture is kept stirred to prevent the sulphur from subsiding. 

 The dip may be conveniently placed in a trough or a tub large 

 enough to allow of the immersion of the sheep or the lamb, which 

 is taken by the feet by two men and plunged into the bath at the 

 temperature mentioned, where it is held for a minute or two until 

 the wool is thoroughly saturated. The animal is then placed in a 

 pen with a raised floor sloping on each side, to a trough in the 

 middle, along which the superabundant liquor escapes into a pail 

 or tub placed to receive it. The method of dipping, (shown at 



