200 COMMON DISEASES. 



Zundle's, — The following is a formula for a modification of 

 Zundle's dip. ( Modifications suggested by Dr. Kaiser.) For one 

 hundred sheep take the following: Tobacco, thirteen and one- 

 half pounds. Soak for several hours in sixty-six gallons of water, 

 then dissolve in this eight pounds of carbonate of soda, and four 

 pounds freshly burned and slacked lime ; then take eight pounds of 

 soft soap and dilute with some of the hot tobacco infusion and add 

 to the materials previously mixed ; then add four pounds crude 

 carbolic acid ; mix thoroughly. Use hot. 



Dipping. — The entire flock should be first shorn, then flipped 

 and confined for eight to ten days in a field or pasture where there 

 had been no scabby sheep for at least two months, and then re- 

 dipped and placed in another field or pasture in which there had 

 been no sheep for at least two months. Each sheep should be kept 

 in the dip at least two minutes by the watch, and each sheep to go 

 under entirely at least once. 1 leavily pregnant ewes can lie safely 

 dipped if handled with care. In using any dip, no matter if pro- 

 prietary or home made, follow directions exactly. It is not un- 

 common for stock men to have unsatisfactory results from the use 

 of well recognized dips, and it is usually because they try using 

 the dip a little weaker than the directions call for, or because they 

 were a little careless and hurried the sheep through the dipping 

 vat too rapidly, or by returning the sheep after clipping to infected 

 pastures or yards. 



A SMALL DIPPING VAT. 



A vat of some kind should be owned by every farmer who 

 keeps many sheep, calves or hogs. It can be used for dipping any 

 of these smaller animals for any of the external parasites, and this 

 is a rapid and effective way of treating such parasites. 



The description of this little vat and of the method of using 

 it were suggested to the writer by Mr, J. E. Story, for many years 

 superintendent of the famous Bow Park stock farm in Canada, and 

 a very thorough stockman. 



The vat should be made of best pine lumber, one and one- 

 quarter inches thick and should be six feet long at the top and 

 four and a half feet at the bottom, two feet wide and two feet six 

 inches deep. ( )ne end is square and the other sloping according 

 to the above dimensions. Slats are nailed across the sloping end t> 



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