Iron County Record | 1955-03-17 | Page 14 | Animal Lice Control Methods Given County Farmers

Animal Lice Control Methods Given County Farmers BY GEORGE F. KNOWLTON, EXTENSION ENTOMOLOGIST Cattle lice control should start on Iron County ranches and farms as soon as pleasant weather weath-er arrives, states Wallace Sjo-blom, Sjo-blom, county agricultural agent. Spraying or dipping will control con-trol cattle lice, Mr. Sjoblom explains. ex-plains. However only beef animals an-imals and dry stock should be dipped. Cows being milked should be sprayed, he cautions, even though dipping generally gives a more complete kill of both blood sucking and biting lice on catle. Beef may be sprayed or dipped with wettable BHC, DDT, toxa-phone, toxa-phone, chlordane, methoxychlor, or rotenone. Whenever rotenone is used, always re-treat the animals an-imals within 11 to 16 days, the county agent emphasizes. Farmers should spray cows being milked only with rotenone, lindane, methoxychlor, or pyre-thrum pyre-thrum insecticides, so that no undesirable un-desirable insecticide residue can possibly get into the milk. For further details on controlling control-ling these insect pests, Iron County residents can get a free copy of Extension Circular 184, "Cattle Lice Control," by contacting contact-ing the county agent at his office in the Federal building.