. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. mals permanently free from mites, wherethese abound, will prove a heavy task. The most successful treat-ment is the tar-sulphur-oil ointment (Formula 18) carefully and thor-oughly rubbed on the animal, especially on the escutcheon, flanks,root of tail, and inside of the legs. The treatment will have to berepeated once or twice a week, according to the weather and othercircumstances. It is impracticable to free a permanently infestedpasture of these vermin. Where it is desired to ship cattle north-ward beyond the infected bo
. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. mals permanently free from mites, wherethese abound, will prove a heavy task. The most successful treat-ment is the tar-sulphur-oil ointment (Formula 18) carefully and thor-oughly rubbed on the animal, especially on the escutcheon, flanks,root of tail, and inside of the legs. The treatment will have to berepeated once or twice a week, according to the weather and othercircumstances. It is impracticable to free a permanently infestedpasture of these vermin. Where it is desired to ship cattle north-ward beyond the infected boundary, the animals may be washedwith any of the washes for which formulas are given in this wash should, in any case, be used as hot as it can be borne, andmust be repeated after seven days. Even then some of the ticksmay fail to be destroyed and must be picked off by hand. Thesemites do not seem to infest animals other than cattle. PARASITES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 117 BODY ( Scematopinus ITwmatopinus tenuirostris.{ Trichodectes Cattle, especially those kept in close confine-ment or in a filthy stable, are apt to become in-fested by two genera of wingless body larger and more common one is Hcemotopi-nus, which is a yellowish gray, about J- inch is nearly white, with reddish spotsand bands across the abdomen. It is only abouttV inch in length. All three species of lice areto be looked for at base of tail, the inside ofthe legs, and where dirt tends naturally to ac-cumulate. Treatment: Spray or wash the infested ani-mals with the kerosene emulsion or any of thedips formulated heretofore. Then smear theparts most attacked with Formula 17 or and ventilate the stable. mange and itch mites.—Symbiotes psoroptes,and various species. Figure 10.—Body Louse. l Female magnified iO dia- meters The common mange or itch mite of cattle is Psoroptes communis, var. bovis. This is of microscopic size. Asseen under the
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