The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-08

plunge The following is he boards
formula for preparing the arsenical
dip:
Heat forty gallons Of water TO the
boiling point. add lwenty-iiye pounds
OF salsoda and allow time necessary
usually about ten minutesl for TO
dissolve; then add ten pounds OF ar.
senic tcommerciah- stirring well
while the same is being added Boil
This from forty minutes TO an hour
or the time necessary 10 bring 4 INTO
solution. and stir frequently with a
wooden paddle to prevent sticking 10
the bottom Alter the arsenic has
dissolved. cool the solution by draw
ing the fire and add enough water to
make fifty gallons, bringing the
temperature 10 about 1870 degrees,
Aen add pine tar in a slow stream
This may be pest accomplished by
making two or three nail holes near
The bottom Of can and one in the
topl. stirring we'll during the proc
ess. Never allow The mixture to be-
come Tot er than 1870 degrees after
PIKE tar has been added. We have
now fifty gallons Of stock or strong
er solution. This Is to be added 70
$50 gallons Of water, o. enough 70
make, in all 500 gallons of dip OF ne
proper proportions for use. In 9th
er words, one part of The stronger
solution is to be added to nine parts
Of wafer, and when the dip IS being
replenished IL Is 10 be in this proper
tiun. For instance, If after dippins
some seyeniy-fiye head Of cattle yol
want to replenish the vat with 10,
gallons more dip, pul in ninety gal
Ions of water and ten gallons oil th'
stronger solution, or in the proper
lion of one measure of strong solu
ton TO nine measures of water
"As no dipping vat will probabl,
be of less than 1880 gallons capat
ity, il is generally advisable to max
up this preparation in teble IN
4 quantities jus. mentioned for chare
+ Ing vat the first time dip is heiD'
used. The eheapness of the chen
lcals renders The cost Of dlppln
merely nominal Commercial arser
ic should retail at from betwee
[121.2c to lSc per pound; pine Ia
soc per gallon, making the dip, whe
ready for use, to cost less than !
pei gallon.
Result Of Proper Dip
Arsenlcal dip is being used e.
tcnsivoly Ia Texas, both TO eradica.
ticks and kill lice on horses aud ca
tie. From reports Of field inspec
ors in Texas and Oklahoma, the 10
Z lowing results may be expected
the solution is correctly prepare
and the cattle properly dipped, h
boards bulletin SAYS
"All small ticks to be dead With
ninety-elght hou.s and possibly
very small percentage OF ihe iare
ticks alive as late as the seventh da
after iirst dipping II Is belieN(
proDe, 10 state here that, while
some instances one dipping I'm a
senical solution will destroy and r
move all ticks from a given hei
within cight days, no dip so Tar tes
, ed. whether ii be crude petroleum
piopl4NtdA pici'dl d'loh- ''H W.
pended mon IN every instance 20 9
! sroy all ticks AT one dipping
] case cattle are very ticky II is te
commended lhat The dipping be
. peated The eighth to tenth day an
l il stock are 10 be returned to {
: infected pasture, the dipping shou
2 be repeated as often as every iiite'
! 10 twenty days This Nill preve
I any ticks from maturing, and "
: destroy any 10 which, ,he previo'
dippirg may not have proven fata
: The eheapness Of the. chemlca
which go 10 make up this dip. al
he simplicity Of It's preparation.
gether with The. fact that VIII
properly used II Is absolutely harl
less 10 stock. recommendg II as
satisfactory agency, used as a dip.
tick eradication IN eatment
small herds. where the expense re
ders the construction Of a dippi
rat impractieable, good results M
be had BY saiuratlng the anima
thoroughly as often as every twel
days by the use Of an ordinary spr
pump"