The government specifies dips as follows: the tobacco dip, containing 

 seven one-hundredths of one per cent nicotine; the lime-sulphur dip, made 

 by mixing eight pounds of unslaked lime with twenty-four pounds of 

 sulphur and boiling with thirty gallons of water for not less than two 

 hours and then diluting to one hundred gallons; the coal-tar creosote dip, 

 made by mixing coal tai 1 creosote and cresol with rosin soap. 



This latter is the same as most of the market disinfectant dips. 



The Government suggests testing the coal tar dips with the water avail- 

 able by mixing a small quantity and letting stand for an hour. If there is 

 an oily layer on the surface, the water should not be used, as the oil might 

 cause injury to the stock. This precaution is especially necessary where 

 the water is hard. 



VALUE OF THE MANURE 



THE manure produced by the goat has a slightly higher value than that 

 of sheep, and as sheep manure in regions where manures are pur- 

 chased at commercial prices, is valued at about $3.30 per ton, it can 

 be readily seen that where milch goats are confined to stables, the manure 

 is an item worthy of notice. If the animals are allowed to occupy land 

 that is to be used for the production of vegetables, grain, or grass, the in- 

 fluence of a very few animals is readily felt even over a considerable area 

 of land. There is a permanency in the effect of such manure upon the land 

 that cannot be attained from commercial fertilizers. 



Angora goats have been given much well-deserved credit for destroying 

 weeds and brush upon very valuable land and at the same time depositing 

 upon the land a good coating of fertilizer. This clearing and fertilizing 

 has caused fields of valuable grass to spring up where only weeds and brush 

 grew before. 



The milk goat breeds will do as much if the opportunity is given them. 



There is no better fertilizer for fruit trees and lawns than goat manure 

 and none equal to it for this purpose except sheep manure. 



DESTROYING BRUSH WOOD 



WHILE the writer does not consider milch goats as well adapted to 

 the destroying of worthless brushwood as the Angoras, it is not 

 because the milch goat has not the ability or the willingness to 

 do so, but is only because of the bad effect on the flavor of the milk such 

 food might have, but all goats not milking, especially the kids and bucks, 

 should have some browse, if it is available. 



The act x>f browsing furnishes exercise for the animals which is a ne- 

 cessity, and a little browse will serve as a tonic and thus help to keep them 

 in good condition. The milch goat dairyman will find that a small piece of 

 brush land would be a valuable place to turn his bucks, kids, and does not 

 giving milk. 



In clearing land of brush too much should not be expected of the goats. 

 Don't try to make the goats clear the land in too short a time. Some times 



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