RECOMMENDED SHEEP DIPS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 40, 10 November 1917, Page 10

RECOMMENDED SHEEP DIPS

A leaflet issued by the Board of Agriculture, and published in the "Live Stock Journal," deals with sheep d ps. In some experiments conducted by Professor Winter, at the University College of North' Wales, Bangor, sixteen dips wero tested. The sheep were immersed in an ordinary swim-bath for a period Of one minute, every sheep being carefully oxamined at the end of twenty-four hours, apd again at intervals until shorn a month later. A brief summary of the principal dips employed is given below:— (1) 2Jlb. arsenious acid (ordinary araonic), ljlb. washing soda, per 100 gallons dip-bath. > (2) 2Jlb. arsenious acid, |lb. good dry caustic soda, per 100 gallons. (8) As No. 1, with the addition of 41b. of flowers of sulphur. (4) Combination of arsenic and sulphur, dip-bath containing 51b. free sulphur per 100 gallons. (5) Soluble sodium compounds of sulphur, with free sulphur. (6) 251b. of sulphur and 1251b. of lime boiled in water until of dark red-brown colour; strain and make up to 100 gallons. (8) Carbolic acid 3 gallons, soft soap 51b. per 100 gallons dip-bath. _ (10) A fluid carbolic dip readily soluble m cold water. (13) One gallon of la mixture of 29 per per cent, tar acid, 36 per cent, paraffin, 8 per cent, lanoline, 17i per cent, anhydrous soft soap, and 9J per cont. water, in 100 gallons dip-bath. (14) Extract of 351b. finely ground tobacco and 101b. flowers of sulphur per 100 gallons dip-bath at llOdeg. Fahr. (15) Small proportion of tar acid in addition to tobacco and sulphur. (16) A tobacco, soft soap, and sulphur I dip. j The dippers should be instrncted to pay particular attention to the upper region of the neelc, which often escapes saturation when the swim bath is used. It is advisable ,fo swab- this region with din as the_ sheep swim through. Before dipping, all _ dung-bound wool should be removed by clipping. Too much care cannot be exercised in keeping the bath free from gross impurities, Both by skimming floating particles off the surface, and by changing the fluid at intervals. An old and dirty dip laden'with manure encourages rather than retards the attacks of insects.

A "record" sale of Herefords has just token place in America at t'he annual sale from the Orchard Lake hard. Kentland, Indiana. .Seventy-five had made .£28,250, none of them realising less than a cool round <£200. The four-year-old bull Martin Fairfax made .£3IOO, being eold to Mr. George E. Fuller, of Ora ! s, Saskatchewan, while the cow Mousel's Empress, with a heifer calf at foot fetched JEIOOO. The .twenty-five bulla, sons, and grandsons of Perfection Fairfax, averaged £476 apiece.