Dips for Cattle Itch 325 



build a dipping vat, through which the animals must 

 swim in the dip used to destroy the mites. The vat 

 should be forty feet long. Efficient remedies used for 

 external application are some of the coal-tar products, 

 such as car-sul, chloro-naphtholeum, zenoleum, creolin, 

 etc.; these are used in two and one-half per cent solu- 

 tions with water, that is, one part of the medicine to 

 forty parts of water. A very effective and cheap dip 

 is composed of lime and sulfur in the following 

 proportions : 



Flowers of sulfur 24 pounds. 



Unslaked lime . 8 pounds. 



Water 100 gallons. 



Slake the lime to form a thick paste, sift in the 

 flowers of sulfur, and stir well ; put this mixture in a 

 kettle with twenty -five or thirty gallons of water and 

 boil for one hour at least ; two hours is better. The 

 chocolate -looking mass is allowed to settle, the clear 

 liquid is drawn off and water enough is added to make 

 one hundred gallons. All dips should be used warm, 

 from 100° to 110° F. Animals should be kept in the 

 dip about two minutes, or until the scabs are thor- 

 oughly saturated. A second dipping in about two weeks 

 will kill any mites that may have hatched after the first 

 dipping. 



When only a few animals are affected, hand treat- 

 ment can be resorted to, but it should be thoroughly 

 done. The remedies can be applied with scrubbing- 

 brushes, cloths or sponges, and all scabs and crusts 

 should be thoroughly saturated. The remedy should be 



