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WOOL SHED DANGERS 
(BLOOD POISONING) 
Mr. N. A. GATENBY, of Jemalong Station, Forbes, N.S.W.. 
Е in the Pastoral Review of September, 1011, 
said :— 
“I do not think the necessity is known to a good many 
people for disinfecting a woolshed before shearing, if 
dead wool has been stored in it. 
“Some years ago a friend of mine sheared his stud sheep 
as first of the flock, and to his dismay found them 
dying wholesale after. The 300-guinea ram he had 
recently bought in Sydney and half his best sheep 
went under. 
“ Every effort was made to discover the cause, and all sorts 
of theories advanced, but to no effect. 
“Some years after I had all dead wool collected on the run 
and it went ‘pro tem’ into the woolshed. The same 
result attended the shearing of the first sheep, hundreds 
died after shearing from blood poisoning. It was my 
first experience of such a thing in my lifetime. 
“Since then I have inquired into the matter, and found 
thatin many carefully managed sheds in Tasmania, 
they are aaya sprayed with a disinfectant before 
shearing, and that this was a sure preventive of any 
such loss. 
“If the sheds were sprayed with a solution of carbolic the 
losses at once stopped. In woolsheds it is usually the 
first sheep shorn that suffer. The microbes from the 
dead wool descend with the dust and poison the cuts. 
Later on, the vibration and working of the shed has 
dislodge. all poisonous dust, and nofurthurlossoccurs.” 
THE REMEDY 
A week or two before shearing open up the shed to the sunlight, 
start the machinery, so that the vibration will bring down dust 
and germs, sweep up dust and cobwebs and burn them. Thorough- 
ly cleanse the shearing board and pens with COOPER’S MILK 
IL FLUID, mixed at one gallon of Fluid to fifty of water. 
Also spray the tally pens and yards. 
