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siderable skill and care are needed rightly to 

 prepare the bath. Briefly, the liquor is prepared 

 by boiling 24 to 33 pounds of flowers of sulphur 

 with 8 to 11 pounds of fresh quicklime in 25 to 30 

 gallons of water, the boiling continued for at least 

 two hours until the lime and sulphur have combined, 

 and the resultant liquid has a chocolate or liver 

 color. It is then diluted with warm water to make 

 100 gallons and used hot. Full particulars can be 

 found in Bulletin No. 21, on "Sheep Scab," of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C. 



KEGULAR DIPPING OF THE FARM FLOCK. 



While new sheep added to the flock should be 

 dipped whenever they arrive, barring exceedingly 

 cold weather, the regular flock needs its annual bath, 

 and this should be given immediately after shear- 

 ing, when ewes and lambs may all be dipped at a 

 nominal cost. It takes nearly a gallon of liquid to 

 dip a yearling of medium size with its fleece on, but 

 to dip a sHorn sheep takes not more than a quart, 

 and the little lamb a small amount. This annual 

 cleaning up prevents ticks getting foothold and 

 heads off a lot of other troubles, such as sore eyes 

 and mouth, canker of teats, and sheep lice. 



It is not a troublesome operation to dip a flock of 

 sheep. The water should be conveniently at hand 

 and some means of heating it. An open kettle of 

 30 to 40 gallons capacity will serve if nothing else 

 is convenient ; red-hot irons may be thrown into the 

 tank to heat what is left from a previous dipping; 



