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Show SPRAYING CHUTE FOR STOCK Apparatus Has Been Used With Much Success to Relieve Animals of Ticks and Mange. (Hy It OAn.MAN.) An alley or race for confining stock to be sprayed. The fences are two feet apart and 25 feet In length, accommodating ac-commodating three animals at one time. The floor should be of cement, so sloped as to drain away the surplus iPIPs Spraying Horses. spray. An earth floor soon becomes miry and renders the work disagreeable. disagree-able. It Is seldom that stock submits pa tieutly to being sprayed. As It Is frequently necessary to spray cattle and hc.rses In order to free them from some pest, ticks, mange or other trouble, trou-ble, the easiest method of carrying forward the work should be employed. Where many animals are to be treated H would be advisable to construct con-struct a chamber or chute through which they may be driven from a yard and the spray applied from all dlrec lions as they pass. Such an apparatus has been used with much success tc pdieve stock of ticks and mange In tho west, and could readily be constructed con-structed and conveniently used to dose a herd of cattle with coal oil or crude oil emulsion. In fact, any sort of spraying spray-ing ma' rial, to save the animals from annoyance. A single strong forco pump with one man to operate It, and provided with several delivery nozzles placed In the walls of such a chute, some I ji Entrance to Spray Alley. overhead, others at the sides and still others beneath ail kept playing while tho stock Is being driven through, would do the work effectively. |