LICE IN HORSES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1649, 16 January 1913, Page 10

LICE IN HORSES

< METHOD' OF TREATMENT. , A correspondent, "Krorler," asks for advice as to'tho bwH: method of ' treating horses affected with lice. As was pointed out in this column fome little time iack, any of thb ordinary coal sheep-dips in tho samo proportion as for dipping sheep 'will destroy lice. Experts sulviso the application of the solution all over, the skin, a stiff brush being used and a warm day being chosen. After a lapse of about nine days, the animal should bo dressed again •as .the.-first 1 dressing will, have killed the, lice but not the eggs, whicb latter'batch out in seven or eight .days. If a liorgo is very badly affected, a third dressing necessary. The harness, brushes, . etc., .belonging to affected animals should be . washed with'. the dip. "'ln the Ma'ckenzio Country, for some years past, a painful and peculiar disease has existed amongst sheep grazing on high levels, so a Timaru "Herald" representastive; was told by the South Canterbury Inspector, Mr. ,C. H. Neville. The diseaso noticcably affects the faces, ear's, and nostrils of the sheep, in ' such a manner ns to cause some inorfalih- eacli/ year.. Although .tho'loss'from this trouble is not extensive, still a few sheep succumb to it at mustering time, especially in a dry season. 'It is believed to be a dietetic disease, ' and ' old hands put it down to the sheep eating weed 9 around dry la-; goons. "I am' investigating this com-' plaint. " said Mr. Ncvillo, "and J ' I °P B 'before long to get to the bottom of it.