Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-03-20

Editors Country Gentleman: Il notice
the inquiry of L., Saline Co., Mo-, in
regard to lice on cattle. If his cows are
badly infected, there are none of the
remedies which you mention in connec-
ton with his inquiry that win serve him.
The sulphur is first rate preventive.
but now, at this season of the year, it
would be very dangerous for him to
commence giving it any way, as it opens
the pores too much, and his cattle will
take heavy colds, to say the least.
Kerosene is very dangerous to use, for
though it will kill the lice without a
| doubt, it is, if put on in sufficient GUAM
| tity to do good, very apt to stiffen the
| steer Last winter we were feeding
little rising one hundred steers (natives).
Some of them brought nits or lice into
the corral with them, but | did not dis
cover it until nearly New Year, when
we found several very bad. On one in
particular | tried everything, and con-
suited with every one | could, until at
last | hit upon strong tobacco Juice.
This did the work, but the trouble was
we could not make it stay on the brisket
under the belly, in the tail, and not very
well on the sides. We accordingly
blundered into using grease with it, and
that does It. Render your tobacco the
strongest you can get, with any grease
we had to use good lard at times-the
cheaper the better-about one pound of
tobacco to gallon of lard | shor' ;,
think, though man can use his = -ho
ton about that, according as dlscfe-
are very bad or not take mis- cattle
and thoroughly satur" this olnemens
the animal, rubbi- ate every hair on
much as pose Zig it into the hide as
killed; il .slble The lice are easily
but if is the nits that will trouble,
az, this ointment is well put on they
e killed as soon as hatched. BE sure
and paw particular attention to the tail
to its very tip, the belly and forehead,
along the line of the back and sides,
where they are easily reached when the
animal is once tied up. They will be
very ant TO be killed the first applica-
ton, but they will be on other parts II
they are not rubbed thoroughly. 1t
NAV be necessary, if they have many
nits on them, to repeat the process, even
to the third time, but | never have had
occasion TO do it oftener. This year,
out of the same number of steers III my
corral. I found two early in the season
that were affected. | proceeded as
above, and the steers have kept gaining
right along with the others; in fact, the
lice, after being discovered, never had q
chance to take any of the steers blood
, Lice will show themselves first on the
neck of ali animal, and will be noticed
much quicker on white one than any
other color; the hair becomes dead look
/ | ing, yellowish as though singed witt
, fire. If a steer gets very bad with lice
they are all over him once we though
we had them all killed on a steer tina
r had been very bad, but found them OF
the very tip of the tail as large as
2 kernel of wheat Under the tail, clos
: to the back, is favorite resort of theirs
7 especially in cold weather. VIM. IL
2 Chase, Jr., in Cu1ticator.
: A few years ago, | had fifteel
3 spring calves that got large blue lice al
t over them | tried all the remedies
! heard of on four calves, and killed tire
t of them; the lice had nearly killed tn
others, and thought they would all die
r One day our family doctor, who was
A large farmer, told me to get unguentum
5 and take the size of large pea and rul
4 it between the hind CANNON just abOv
the bag, and Just back of the horns, il
: that small hole. The result was tina
the lice were killed, every one, nits ant
, all, and the calves grew finely after that
T The doctor said it was the lice getting i
} contact with the ointment that kille
them, but the effect it had on the blood
they sucking the blood, were poisone,
by the ointment | have since tried
t several times on large and small, an
: very seldom had to put it on a secon
7 time. They have to be kept dry for
4 few days. Quantity used-The size Q
: a large pea for spring calf in Septem
e Der, and in proportion for large stock
: J. NJ. Y. K. IN CatLtiUdtOT.