SHEEP-DIPPING

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2273, 19 August 1908, Page 2

SHEEP-DIPPING

“There is a very close couueetiou between sheep-dipping and the wool fibre itself, a connection that I find is entirely overlooked and ignored by the majority of sheepfarmers.” So says Air. S. B. Boilings, the noted Bradford wool expert, in an article written by him to the Pastoralists’ Review on 17tli October, 1904.

Of course, there is the very closest possible connection between sheep-dip-ping and the wool fibre. For example, any dipping preparation which affects the growing fleece to the extent of making tlie wool harsh to the touch, or giving the sheep a bleached appearance after dipping, ought not to be used by the wool-grower, no matter how effective such dip may bo for killing off narasites—for tlie simple reason that the very fact of the fleece being harsh to the touch, or having a bleached appearance after dipping means that the fibre lias been injured by the dipping preparation used, and it is well to remember that such injury can never afterwards bo repaired, _ though its effects may become invisible by shearing time.* Yet the fact remains that the fleece has been permanently lightened by tho action of the dip, and for such injury to Ins clip the grower unconsciously lies to pay in £ s. d.

t he dip which will clean sheep and keep them free from parasites, promote a sound, lustrous growth of wool, without the slightest- injury to the most delicate fibre, and obtain top prices for its users, is Quibell’s Patent Powder, This statement is fully endorsed by many of the most iioted pastoralists throughout- New Zealand to-day, where the finest wools in the world of their class are grown.