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flowers of sulphur 1 pound each, to every 4 gallons of water to be used. 

 The tobacco should be steeped iu a portion of the water two or three 

 successive times so as to extract all of the juice. The leaves or stems 

 may be used; of the latter three times the weight is required as is 

 ueeded of the former ; a press or wringer is convenient to squeeze out 

 all of the liquor from them. The sulphur should be mixed with some 

 of the tobacco water and stirred until it is of creamy consistency. 

 These ingredients should be added to the required amount of water. 

 During the dipping this mixture should be constantly stirred and a lit- 

 tle fresh water added from time to time to replace that lost by evapora- 

 tion. 



This dip, to be more effective, should be heated to between 100° and 

 110° Fah. in summer, and 110° and 120° Fah. in winter, never being 

 allowed to fall under or exceed these limits. The sheep should remain 

 immersed in it from sixty to ninety seconds, and the head should be 

 completely immersed at least once. 



When sheep with heavy fleeces are dipped it will be found necessary 

 to separate the fleece with the hands, that the fluid may permeate better, 

 Eight or ten days after the first dipping the treatment should be re 

 peated. Sometimes a third and more rarely a fourth dipping is neces 

 sary. When the last two are required it is most often due to care 

 lessness in preparation, or a failure in the strength of the first dips 

 Sometimes it may be necessitated by the rain having washed off the 

 first solution soon after dipping. 



Australian sulphur and lime dip: Take of flowers of sulphur 100 

 pounds, of quicklime 150 pounds, ' water 100 gallons. Mix and stir 

 while boiling for ten minutes, until the mixture assumes a bright red 

 color, then add 3 gallons of water. Hold the sheep in the mixture until 

 the scabs are thoroughly soaked. Immerse the head at least once. Use 

 the dip at 100 to 110° Fah. Dip twice at an interval of two weeks. 



In the American Merino, 1887, Stephen Powers gives an excellent 

 description of sheep dipping on a large scale, and the following recipes 

 in use in various sections of the United States : 



Texas and New Mexico : Thirty pounds of tobacco, 7 pounds of sulphur, 3 pounds 

 of concentrated lye, dissolved in 100 gallons of water. 



Nevada: sulphur, 10 pounds; lime, 20 pounds; water, 60 gallons. 



California: Sulphur, 4 pounds; lime, 1 pound; water, euough to make 4 gallons. 



Kansas : Sulphur, 22 pounds ; lime, 7 pounds; water, 100 gallons. 



Sulphur and lime is probably the cheapest recipe, but the lime is apt to injure the 

 staple; still this recipe appears to prevail over all others iu the scab-infested 

 regions. Probably tobacco and sulphur form the best combiDation known for the 

 treatment of scab. To every hundred gallons of water there should be used 35 pounds 

 of good strong tobacco (if stems or other inferior parts are used there should. be 

 more), and 10 pounds of flowers of sulphur. This preparation used at a temperature 

 of 120° Fah., will kill all acari ticks and lice, and leave the wool in a healthy con^ 

 dition. To insure thorough work apply a second time in ten daya gr two weeks. 



