CORRESPONDENCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3970, 10 April 1884, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

HAYWARD'S SHEEP DIP,

[TO THE EDITOE OF THE DAILY TeLEOEAPH.] Sic,—l beg to eneloso you two telegrams that I have clipped from a Southern paper, and which it will be seen dill'or very considerably : — Napikb, April 1. Napxeb, April 2. The sheep dipped The result of the at Hayward's sheep- examination was that dip trial on Douglas' on sheep dipped with station in February glycerine dip used were examined yes- cold a few lice were torday by the Sheep found, but tho uiixInapcctor in the ture of glycerine and presenco of Messrs Lincoln dip, or Douglas and Hayes, Lincoln used alone, the judges appointed was successful, by llayward, and were found to be infected with lice. —The above telegrams relate to a matter that is of some importance to slieepfarmers, and as Mr llayward, at his trial dipping on Mr Douglas' station, appointed judges to determine the results of the trial, it might be expected from those gentlamen to furnish the public with their official report. It may bo noticed that tho telegram dated April 1 boars the air of authority, while the other does not. From hear-say I gather that the trial was most loosely conducted, and that at tho examination tho shepherd only could say how the three different lots of sheep had been treated. Also from hearsay I learn that the three lots that wore treated at the trial yarded, and were all three found infected with lice. After these had been examined a mob of some 8000 sheep, that had been dipped subsequently to tho trial, were visited in a paddock, a lot of about 100 cut off, and some of them caught and looked at, and found to bo free from lice. I apprehend, however, that if the 100 had been closely examined it would have been no criterion of the condition of 8000. Awaiting the report of the judges.—l am, &c, LONfiWOOL. Napier, April 9, 18S4.