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permanent harm. Keep the animal in the bath 

 for a couple of minutes, and see that the animal 

 is thoroughly covered by the bath. After he is 

 taken out and dried there will apparently not 

 be a flea on him. The next day you will find 

 plenty of fleas on him, so continue the bath three 

 times a week for a fortnight and at the end of 

 that time you will not be able to find a flea on 

 him. There is nothing offensive in the bath, and 

 the emulsion is the color of milk. The reason 

 for not using a tub with any copper in it is that 

 the carbolic acid in the dip unites with the metal 

 and forms carbolate of copper, a most deadly 

 skin irritant. 



W. F. Sturgill, of Ceredo, West Virginia, 

 recommends the use of Little's Soluble Phenyle 

 and water mixed in the proportion of one ounce 

 of the former to one gallon of water. Wash the 

 dogs in the solution. 



In reply to an inquiry how to get rid of fleas, 

 one magazine says, there is nothing cheaper or 

 more effective than kerosene. Rub it into the 

 dog's coat, sprinkle it in the yards, on kennel 

 floors, and the fleas are bound to go. Note re- 

 marks about kerosene above. 



