How Parasites Spread in Sheep.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 214, 10 March 1898, Page 2

How Parasites Spread in Sheep.

The following is an extract from a papev recently read by Mr Williams, the wellknown stock inspector of South Australia before the Mount Gambier branch of the Agricultural Bureau :—" An instance showing how rapidly lice will spread from infected to clean sheep was recently brought under the writer's notice. An infected animal got into a paddock among twenty clean sheep, and in fifteen days all were infected. Another case, showing how well dipped sheep remained free from the attacks of the louse came under notice at Milliecnt, where about ten long wool sheep that had been clipped in Cooper's Dip were in the local pound with badly infested sheep for over a fortnight, and remained quite clean, thus proving the advantage of using a dip the properties of which will remain in the wool and render it objectionable to all parasites."

Remarks : These lasting properties of Cooper's Dip, which alone render it by far the cheapest sheep dip in the world will be fully realised by all who apply it thoroughly, according to the simple directions for use which are printed on each packet. *

In addition to the lasting properties of Cooper's are its beneiieiaf ellects upon the skin, which re-act upon the wool. Showing that these are not mere statements, the following facts may be quoted — At the last Royal Show (England) IK) out of a total of 145 sheep which secureil prizes were Cooper-dipped. At the lust great Sydney Sheep Show there were 40 Cooper-dipped prize takers against only 37 dipped in all other preparations put together. At the last Australian Sheep Breeders' Show, Melbourne, Cooper-dip-ped sheep took 57 prizes, against -13 by all other proprietary dips put together. The owners of one quarter of the sheep in existence upon tho earth used Cooper";; Dip last season.

The special treatment and care bestowed in the inunvif;ietuve of the original render it a wholly distinct preparation from its innumerable imitations — the aids of analysis notwithstanding. Not a single one of these imitations can compare with it. and each season adds a new failure to their list. — Advt.