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such an accurate statement of results as I should like to be 

 able to do. 



The Chairman. If there is nothing further in the way of 

 questions or discussion on this important subject, the question 

 box will be opened. Our Secretary will read the questions. 



Secretary Sessions. Here is a very practical question to 

 all stock growers : " How shall we cleanse a stable of cattle 

 lice?" Will Dr. Lynde tell us something about that? 



Dr. Lynde. About the best thing you can do is to 

 fumigate with sulphur. Remove the cattle, close the stable 

 as tightly as you can, put a liberal quantity of sulphur into a 

 kettle, pour alcohol upon the sulphur, light it, and let the 

 fumes go through the stable, and they will kill every living 

 thing. 



Question. Would not coals of fire under the sulphur be 

 as good as the alcohol ? 



Dro Lynde. No, sir; alcohol is better. 



Question. How would you deodorize your stable so 

 that the fumes of the sulphur would not affect the milk? 



Dr. Lynde. Open it freely to the air, and in a short 

 time the fumes of the sulphur are gone. Is not that so. 

 Dr. Goessmann? 



Dr. Goessmann. That is so. 



Mr. Dyer. In my own experience I have found that a 

 mixture of equal parts of lard and kerosene, which is per- 

 fectl}^ harmless, is very effectual, if the dose is repeated 

 once or twice. One application kills the lice, but not the 

 nits, so that it is necessary to repeat the dose. 



Secretary Sessions. The next season your creatures will 

 be covered again, if the stable is not freed from the lice. 



Dr. Lynde. The effect of that is limited to the lice on 

 the stock. The lice and the nits are all about in the stable, 

 and you must get rid of them as well as those on the stock. 

 The remedy which the gentleman suggests will not do it 

 effectually. There is another remedy, and that is a solution 

 of corrosive sublimate. It is a deadly poison, which will 

 kill the lice and kill the nits, and, if you put it on too freely, 

 it will kill the cattle. 



Dv. Goessmann. Carbolic acid and lime is also an excel- 

 lent remedy for lice in a stable. 



