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12 MISCELLANEOUS PUB. 25, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
DECEMBER 
Treat horses for bots. 
Strive to keep livestock comfortable, thereby 
favoring more profitable production. 
Lice and mange (scab or scabies) (figs. 19 and 20) are commonly 
prevalent in December. If you didn’t dip last fall, use such palliative 
Fig. 19.—An advanced case of sheep scab Fic. 20.—Sheep-scab mite, the para- 
site that causes common scab. 
Enlarged 
measures as are possible at this season of the year and be sure to dip 
next fall. 
Now that the adult botfly has ceased to fly, except in parts of the 
South, call in your veterinarian and have him treat your horses 
for bots with carbon bisulphide. 
Treat the bot eggs with a 2 per 
cent coal-tar-creosote solution or 
shave them off with a safety razor. 
Bots (fig. 21) imterfere with a 
horse’s nutrition and in heavy in- 
festation may even cause death. 
One of the bots, the nose botfly, 
is exceedingly troublesome as 
an adult fly, as horses are badly 
frightened by it and may run 
away, sometimes with serious 
Fig. 21.—Bots on a portion of a horse’s stomach. : 
iar GUS a Giger HERE consequences. Write for Farmers’ 
Bulletin No. 1503 (4). 
Ox warbles may be present in some parts of the South in Decem- 
ber. See directions for February. 
