Watkins-Pitchford, H.Union of South Africa. Dept. of Agriculture2010-02-032010-02-031910Watkins-Pitchford, H 1910, 'Dipping and tick-destroying agents : part 1', "Times" Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, Pietermaritzburg, pp.26.http://hdl.handle.net/2263/12849The journals have been scanned with a SupraScan 10000RGB scanner; 24-bit true colour, 400 dpi, saved in TIFF-format. Copies of the master images have been converted to black & white, 1-bitmap images and OCRed with ABBYY Fine Reader v.9 software. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.This report is intended to show the efficacy of certain preparations supplied for dipping and spraying cattle. The agents discussed are Coopers "tixol"; McDougall's dip; Quibell's paste dip; Cooper's powder; Demuth dip; Izo-izal sheep dip; Thomas's dip; Holmes's dip; Ialine sheep dip; Hypo-chlorite or electrolysed sea water; Arsenite of soda; Erkenbrach's cattle dip; Alderson's cattle dip; 4 types of "Laboratory" spraying fluid. In Appendix A the results of the various agents are discussed. Appendix B explains the composition of the dip and Appendix C describes the working of Watkins-Pitchford's Spraying appliance.The report consists of 26 pages. Contains 2 figures.en©Dept. of Agriculture, South Africa (original). ©University of Pretoria. Dept. of Library Services (digital).South AfricaVeterinary medicineVeterinary reportsVeterinary medicine -- History -- South AfricaVeterinary toxicology -- South AfricaDipping fluids -- South AfricaTicks -- ControlTechnical Report