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danger of using arsenical or mercurial solutions, 

 particularly if strong, or applied in cold weather, 

 for it has served to remove the sheep from a 

 world of parasitical affliction. Hence the reason 

 for cautioning flock-masters in regard to recipes 

 compounded with mineral poisons. Non-pro- 

 fessional men are not so likely to destroy sheep 

 with the non-poisonous dips, so-called, as they 

 are, when they undertake to use such powerful 

 agents as the mineral poisons mentioned above. 



Tobacco is a very poisonous plant, as every- 

 body knows, and the wrangle between the two 

 contending parties, is not really between poison- 

 ous and non-poisonous sheep dips, but between 

 the more and the less poisonous decoctions. 



Assuming the shepherd to have selected, from 

 his knowledge and experience, the proper decoc- 

 tion to serve as a cure, the next point in order 

 is the mode of application. The method of pre- 

 paring the different dips is so fully explained in 

 the various recipes given in the Appendix, that 

 it is not necessary to allude to them here. 



If the number of sheep to be treated is small, 



