DISEASES AND REMEDIES 91 



this loathsome disease that arise from the 

 keep, lack of exercise, improper food, and bed- 

 ding. 



I have yet to see the attendant who could 

 keep his kenneled pack free of mange and ver- 

 min without dipping. Where a pack consists 

 of twenty or thirty couples, dipping, unless one 

 is prepared for it, is quite an undertaking. 



The simplest apparatus to be used effectively 

 is made as follows: Construct a galvanized 

 iron tank forty-two inches long, fifteen inches 

 wide, and twenty-eight inches deep. Fill the 

 tank twenty inches deep with a solution of fifty 

 parts tepid water to one part sheep dip, sanitas, 

 phenyle, chloro-naptholeum, West's or any of 

 the many disinfecting fluids — not containing 

 carbolic acid — which are commonly advertised. 



If preferred you can make your own mange 

 dip at a nominal trifling cost as follows and 

 it will be found equally as effective : 



Three pounds of Babbitt's concentrated lye 

 and five pounds powdered sulphur in four gal- 

 lons of water; let it set over night; add twenty 

 gallons of water next morning and four ounces 

 of sulphuric acid, and let it set for four hours 

 before using. Place hound in tank and with 

 a dipper pour the liquid over him for two min- 

 utes, wetting each inch of him, being careful of 



