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a selector or farmer, it might be found expedient to burn them off 
at once, and pay for them from the fund accumulated under the 
“ Diseases in Sheep Act,” which has been created by an annual 
assessment on all sheep at the rate of 5s. per thousand. 
It will thus be seen that the protection of sheep from disease, 
which has been most thorough, has not cost the consolidated revenue 
a single farthing, while the assessment — equal to 0‘24 of a farthing 
per sheep — is a mere l)agatelle. 
P. R. Gordon. 
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Instructions for Dressing Imported or Infected Sheep. 
Either one or other of the following preparations must be used in 
dressing imported or infected sheep : — 
Tobacco and Su^dtur. 
Quantities. — One pound of sound leaf or manufactured tobacco 
and one pound of flowers of sulphur, to five gallons of water. 
Mode of preparation.— lni\x?,e the tobacco the night previous to 
dipping, by boiling the water and adding the tobacco in a propor- 
tion not exceeding one gallon of water to one pound of tobacco. 
Allow the infusion to stand all night in the boiler, well covered 
over. Mix the bath with hot water to the desired temperature and 
strength in the morning. Thoroughly mix the sulphur with the 
hand in a bucket, or other vessel, with water to the consistency of 
gruel before putting it in the bath, and keep it well stirred before 
immersing the sheep, so that all the particles of sulphur may be sus- 
pended in the liquid. 
Lime and Sidphur. 
Take in the proportion of ten pounds of flowers of sulphur to 
five pounds of quicklime (a large proportion partially slacked); boil 
in ten gallons of water. Keep mix(>d by constantly stirring for 
about ten minutes, or until a clear dark- brown orange-coloured 
liquid results. Then make up the dip or bath to the required 
quantity by mixing one gallon of tliis liquid with three gallons of 
hot water. If rock or unslacked lime cannot be procured, use 
double the quantity— that is, equal proportions of lime and sulphur. 
Directions for Using the Bath. 
Temperature. — Never allow the temperature to fall below 110° 
F., nor to exceed 120° F. 
Duration of Bath. — Never less than fifty seconds for the second, 
and not less than eighty seconds for the first and third dressings. 
The whole body — with the exception of the head — to be kept com- 
pletely immersed during that time. The head to be immersed, on 
