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the total volume of the solution 500 gallons. The regulations of 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry require that when the solution is to 

 be used as a dip for cattle which are to be shipped out of the 

 quarantined area 25 pounds of sodium carbonate and 10 pounds of 

 arsenic shall be used for each 500 gallons. In tick eradication, the 

 solution is applied as a spray or in the form of a dip or bath, 

 repeated every two or three weeks.] 



Remedies against Forest Flies. — Creolin, tobacco, mercurial 

 ointment. 



Remedies against (Estrus Flies. — Tar, creolin, asafoetida, 

 petroleum. 



Remedies against Herpes and Favus. — Salicylic acid, creolin, 

 creosote, tincture of iodine, tar, mercurial ointment, ammoniated 

 mercurial ointment, corrosive sublimate, carbolic acid. 



Drugs. — 1. *Creolin. Creolin (creolinum anglicum) is the most 

 used antiparasitic. In the treatment of sheep scab it is applied 

 for several days in the form of a 10 per cent, hniment: creolin and 

 sapo mollis, 1 part of each, alcohol 8 parts. This is followed by a 

 bath or dip in a 2/^ per cent, solution of creolin, which is repeated 

 in 8 days. Against sarcoptic mange of the horse and dog, a 10 per 

 cent, liniment of creolin, soap and alcohol is also employed. A 10 

 to 15 per cent, alcoholic solution is used against acarus [demodectic] 

 mange. Washings with 3 per cent, solution in water are em- 

 ployed against lice, forest flies, etc. Creolin ointment is used 

 against herpes, chicken mange and ticks. Birds infested with 

 vermin may be sprayed with a 1 per cent, solution of creolin in 

 water or given a bath in a warm }/2 per cent, creolin solution, fol- 

 lowed by a bath in water. *Lysol ^ and *bacillol ' have a similar 

 action. 



2. Pix liquida. Tar. A very good remedy against horse mange 

 in the form of Vienna tar liniment: pix liquida and sulphur sub- 

 limatum, 1 part of each; sapo mollis and alcohol, 2 parts of each; 

 also used against mange of dogs, herpes, etc., in ointment or in 

 alcohol (1 : 10). 



P Liquor cresolis compositus, which is official in the U. S., is essentially 

 the same as these compounds.] 



