54 The Sheep-Scab. 



Always use the strongest kind of tobacco and 

 never let it boil, but simply steep it. Put the 

 tobacco into gunny sacks, from 25 to 50 lbs. in 

 each sack; then soak three or four hours, then 

 remove the sacks, put them into the boiling vats 

 and steep; thus getting all the strength out of 

 the tobacco. On the day of dipping the sheep 

 (w^hich should be ^he next day after the liquor 

 is prepared) the two solutions thus obtained, 

 one by soaking and one by steeping should be 

 heated together. One reason why there are so 

 many failures in curing the scab is because most 

 men prepare their liquor the same day they use 

 it, and being hurried, do not extract the entire 

 strength of the tobacco. In case it is necessary 

 to dip before the fleece is removed, do not use 

 any lime, but dip three times in tobacco. Each 

 dip should be exactly one week from the pre- 

 ceding one, or as nea. that as the weather will 

 permit. It will be found that the tobacco used 

 after the lime dip, will bring back the life into 

 the wool and counteract all the injurious effects 

 of the lime. Two applications will generally 



