162 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



Secretary Sessions. How would you use the carbolic 

 acid and lime ? 



Dr. GoESSMANN. About an ounce of carbolic acid to a 

 pound of slacked lime. 



Question. I would like to inquire, if the stock are rid 

 of lice in the spring, if the lice will stay in the stable and 

 live through the summer when the cattle are turned out to 

 pasture ? 



Secretary Sessions. I can answer that they will. I know 

 it by experience. 



Mr. Bradley. To kill lice on cattle I would recommend 

 common insect powder. You can put that on where you 

 could not use lard and kerosene. Take a pepper-box, and 

 you can go over an animal in a quarter of a minute, and in a 

 very short time go over a whole herd. I will guarantee that 

 the lice will all be killed with three or four applications. If 

 you sprinkle it around the horns, around the neck and over 

 the back several times, you will kill them all. 



Mr. FiSKE. My cattle used to be badly troubled with lice 

 every year, but for the last eight or ten years I have adopted 

 a very simple means of ridding the cattle of lice. I keep a 

 pail of flour of sulphur in the barn, and when a creature 

 shows symptoms of having lice by lapping and rubbing, I 

 take a little hand sieve and sift a small portion of that sul- 

 phur over their backs and heads, and the remedy has been 

 effectual. My stable used to be full of them, and when the 

 cattle came into winter quarters they would soon be covered 

 with lice. I used to put on soap-suds, tobacco, and other 

 things ; but I never found anything so simple or so sure as 

 this practice of sifting a little flour of sulphur over their 

 backs. I have applied it two or three times, once a week, 

 and it is very seldom now that I have occasion to use it at 

 all. 



Mr. Marshall. I cart into the stable a portion of dry 

 lime, and every time I clean out my stable I put it down 

 where my cattle lie. It fills their hair with dust, and keeps 

 the lice ofi" of my cattle the best of anything I have tried. 

 I have tried all the remedies I have heard spoken of, and 

 there is nothing so effectual and so safe to use as that.- 



Secretary Sessions. I suppose you are all aware that 



