| Show I LIME AND SULPHUR DIP MESSRS KNOLLIN BOOTS TOMB TO-MB SEELY ON ITS USE They Have Always Used that Dip and at the Same Time Have Experimented Ex-perimented with Patent lrndst t I Kansas City May 1 1900 Mt Pleasant Utah I Mr John Secly 7I I Friend SeelVc have noted your letter of April 26lh published In The I Tribune and are going lo preserve it in our scrupbook as a classic on sheep I dipping This buggarboo is brought I up periodically by the wool men and the patent dip manufacturers All of the journals devoted to sheep inlcresls i immediately take sides with those decrying de-crying a lime and sulphur dip no doubt from the fact that their advertising business Is quite an object You Jut it well when you say Limeandsulphur dip when propeily made and applied correctly Is positively not Injurious to the wool AYc have been using lime and sulphur for seventeen years and during those years have experimented with most ot thc patent dips We have liad but one complaint as to the condition condi-tion of our wool and that was when a patent dip was used I having left a substance In the wool that it was impossible im-possible to wash out and scented up the whole building during the washing process We have Just delivered a clip of wool from 16000 sheep at Black Hock Utah at IS cents per pound f o b Black Rock These sheep have been dipped In lime and sulphur for a number of years and the buyer pronounced pro-nounced this wool In excellent condition condi-tion Ve have not heard thai any inquiries in-quiries ere made as to what the sheep were dipped in I 01 whether they were dipped at al I rather think the buyer I took It for granted that the sheep had never been dipped a o a I On tlte other hand when Hmennd j 1 sulphur dip Is not properly made and I used with painstaking care no doubt i both wool and sheep are Injured by the dipping process Several years ago we formulated dip instructions for our employees and for others asking fox information about dipping 1 and wo stand ready to Hack up any injury that wl result to cither sheep or wool from using llmeandsulphur dip If Instructions Instruc-tions are strict compiled with FC I shorter swims were used throughout thc West and sheep handled as directed I di-rected In I this circular i in I Iwo years lime scab would be entirely eradicated from the range Vo noted the article of April 2rd to which you referred and concluded at that time to lake exceptions ex-ceptions to it but rather halted at I tackling such an overwhelming tide of press notices regarding the Injurious effects ef-fects of llmeandHulphur dip But we feel more courageous now tat a wool glower of your standing has started the ball rolling and hope other sheepmen will speak their minds on this mailer Vc do not wish to be understood as thinking that no effective substitute can be found for lime and sulphur and we expect to continue experimenting with new preparations but hen we I have such eminent authority as you have quoted we deem il dangerous for sheepmen to stampede over this bug garboo From our own knowledge we know that our own agricultural department directed by 1 the best Intelligence obtainable ob-tainable has decided that a llmeand sulphur dip is the best at this tlmo known and at present no potent dip is allowed to be used at public dipping vats looked after by Government Inspection In-spection lime and sulphur and lime and sulphur and tobacco being the two dips used Yours respectfully KNOLLIN BOOTH |
