Dips for Cattle Itch 827 
ouild a dipping vat, through which the animals must 
swim in the dip used to destroy the mites. The vat 
should be forty feet long. Efficient remedies used for 
external application are some of the coal-tar products, 
such as car-sul, chloro-naphtholeum, zenoleum, creolin, 
etc.; these are used in two and one-half per cent solu- 
tions with water, that is, one part of the medicine to 
forty parts of water. A very effective and cheap dip 
is composed of lime and sulfur in the following 
proportions : 
Flowers of sulfur .......... 24 pounds. 
Unslaked lime. ........ s 8 pounds. 
Water age ae Po Ke Woda ge Zs 100 gallons. 
Slake the lime to form a thick paste, sift in the 
flowers of sulfur, and stir well; put this mixture in a 
kettle with twenty-five or thirty gallons of water and 
boil for one hour at least ; two hours is better. The 
chocolate-looking mass is allowed to settle, the clear 
liquid is drawn off and water enough is added to make 
one hundred gallons. All dips should be used warm, 
from 100° to 110° F. Animals should be kept in the 
dip about two minutes, or until the scabs are thor- 
oughly saturated. A second dipping in about two weeks 
will kill any mites that may have hatched after the first 
dipping. 
When only a few animals are affected, hand treat- 
ment can be resorted to, but it should be thoroughly 
done. The remedies can be applied with scrubbing- 
brushes, cloths or sponges, and all seabs and crusts 
should be thoroughly saturated. The remedy should be 
