Sheep Sprays
Sir.—l was very disturbed to read in a recent "Press” that from next September aldrin and dieldrin are to be deregistered as sheep-dipping materials. I hope that the insecticides to be used in their place have their "creeping” qualities. If not, many thousands of pounds worth of tip-spraying and dusting machines will have to go on the scrap-heap, and the Department of Agriculture will forfeit the confidence of hundreds of farmers who refrained from buying those machines until assured by the department that dieldrin and aldrin did not have any ill effects on earcases.—Yours, etc., E M.R. May 11, 1961. [The livestock superintendent of the Department of Agriculture (Mr H. Doyle) said: “It is expected that aldrin and dieldrin in sheep dips will be replaced by the insecticide diazinon. This has similar properties to those of the two older insecticides without their disadvantages.”]
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 6
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