382 The Cure of Sheep Seal). 
cessful use of any I’emedy, and this, doubtless, applies to all such 
failures. 
“ Mr. Gordon asserts that lime and sulphur, and tobacco and 
sulphui’, prepared and applied as he directs, have never failed. We 
assert equally strongly that Cooper’s Dip used as we direct has never 
failed, and many thousands of sheep-owners all over the world sup- 
port this assertion by their own positive experiences. 
“ Can Mr. Gordon explain how it is that in the United States of 
America, where probably more lime and sulphur is used than in all 
other countries in the world put together — many thousands of tons 
being used there annually — jet in that same country scab is more 
rampant than in any other ? Or take his other remedy, viz. tobacco, 
is it possible to select a single article which varies more in strength 
than this 1 In South Africa our dip is a Government remedy. 
The scab inspectors have to report periodically rheir observations 
upon the value of the various remedies in use there for curing scab, 
and it is a fact that Cooper’s Dip always receives the highest com- 
mendation in these official reports. In both North and South 
America our dip is rapidly superseding the remedies recommended 
by Mr. Gordon. The enormous annual increase in our sales is 
pretty good proof of that. 
“ It may be said, ‘Why, then, has not Cooper’s Dip cleared scab 
out of these countries, as has been done in Australia ? ’ The answer 
is, because their Governments have never yet adopted the stringent 
measures of Australia, which were so successfully carried out by 
Mr. Gordon and his colleagues, and some such are absolutely essen- 
tial to the eradication of scab from a country. It is more the system 
which has made the conquest than the particular remedies used. 
The experience of North America, to which we have referred, where 
Mr. Gordon’s I’emedy of lime and sulphur has been in general use 
for the past fifteen years, with the result that scab is as prevalent 
as ever, is ample proof of this. Armed with the Australian regu- 
lations, we would undertake to eradicate scab from any country. 
“ We do not deny that, as a cure for scab, lime and sulphur, 
properly prepai’ed and used, may be made to cure scab, but at what 
cost 1 Mr. Gordon himself tells us, a depreciation of the wool clip 
to the extent of 3d. per pound. On the wool from 10,000 sheep 
that is a loss of 600?., in addition to the trouble and cost of dipping. 
Does Mr. Gordon take that into consideration, when he says that 
lime and sulphur is incomparably cheaper than Cooper’s Dip 1 
“ It Avill be at once apparent to those who have used Cooper’s Dip 
that Mr. Gordon’s comparison of the trouble of preparing lime and 
sulphur with that of ‘ Cooper ’ displays how small must be his 
acquaintance with the latter. He evidently does not know that 
enough Cooper’s Dip for 1,000 sheep can be prepared in ten 
minutes without the least trouble and bother of weighing, sifting, 
mixing, heating, ic., inseparable from the use of lime and sulphur, 
and that Cooper’s, used cold, cures scab. Mr. Gordon’s warning 
that a lime and sulphur bath must never fall to a lower temperature 
than 110° is alone a proof of the tremendous trouble the use of such 
