PSOROPTIC MANGE — SHEEP SCAB. 629 



experience \yith properly prepared dip, its injury to the wool is 

 strongly and steadfastly denied by the Agricultural Department of 

 Cape Colony. 



It is believed that a certain amount of justice is attached to this 

 objection to lime and sulphur as generally used ; unless, therefore, 

 lime and sulphur can be used in a way which will not injure the 

 wool to an appreciable extent, we should advise against its use in 

 certain cases ; in certain other cases the good accomplished far out- 

 weighs the injury it does. Let us, therefore, examine into this 

 damage and its causes. 



The usual time for dipping sheep is shortly after shearing, when the 



Fid. 2.58. — A more advanced case of common scab. 



wool is very short ; whatever the damage at this time, then, it can be 

 only slight, "and the small amount of lime left in the wool will surely do 



but little harm. 



In full fleece lime and sulphur will cause more injury. In Australia 

 the deterioration was computed by wool buyers at 17 per cent., although 

 in Cai.e Colony the Department of Agriculture maintams that if properly 

 prepared and'if only the clear liquid is used, the sediment bemg thrown 

 away the official lime-and-sulphur formula will not injure the long wool 

 The United States Bureau of Agriculture have found some samples of 

 wool injured by dipping, while on other samples no appreciable effect 



was noticeable. , ^ ^ , . ■ ^i. 



If a lime-and-snlphur dip is used, care must be taken to give the 



